Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia Blues

The Kinks

Tom: G

Intro : D C G

    G                     C         D         G
I'm too terrified to walk out of my own front door,
        C                             D                                   G
They're demonstrating outside I think they're gonna start the third world
war,
          C                G
I've been to my local head shrinker,
       Bm           C C#
To help classify my disease,
             D                                          G
He said it's one of the cases of acute schizophrenia he sees.

         G7                       C      D                  G
Well the milkman's a spy, and the grocer keeps on following me,
        C                    D                    G
And the woman next door's an undercover for the K.G.B.,
            C               G
And the man from the Social Security
         Bm          C C#
Keeps on invading my privacy,
  G
Oh there ain't no cure for acute schizophrenia disease.

         D                            G
I've got acute schizophrenia paranoia too,
D
Schizophrenia, schizophrenia,
C           C#              D
I've got it, you've got it, we can't lose,
D                   G
Acute schizophrenia blues.

G                          C     D     G
I'm lost on the river, the river of no return,
C                         D                              G
I can't make decisions, I don't know which way I'm gonna turn,
C           G                     Bm                   C  C#
Even my old dad, lost some of the best friends he ever had,
D
    G
Apparently, his was a case of acute schizophrenia too.

      D                            G
I got acute schizophrenia paranoia too,
D
Schizophrenia, schizophrenia,
C            C#             D
I've got it, you've got it, we can't lose,

G                             C       D          G
They're watching my house and they're tapping my telephone,
        C                     D                           G
I can't trust nobody, but I'm much too scared to be on my own
        C          G                   Bm           C  C#
And the income tax collector's got his beady eye on me,
   D                                           G
Oh there ain't no cure for acute schizophrenia disease.

   D                                     G  G7
No there ain't no cure for Schizophrenia disease.