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[Verse 1]
    A                          G#           G#7
I'm bored out of my mind / Too sick to even care
C#m7                               C#m7     Cm7   Bm7
I'll take a little walk / Nobody's going----to----know
Bm7                     C#m7                    D
I'm in senior year / It gives you a little free time
                 E
I'll just use it all at once!

[Verse 2]
         A                        G#           G#7
Took the fence and the lane / The bus then the train
C#m7                                       C#m7   Cm7   Bm7
Bought an Independent to make me look like I------got---brains
Bm7                     C#m7                  D
I made a story up in my head if anybody would ask
               E
I'm going to a seminar!

[Chorus]
     D              Dm
I'm a genius / I'm a prodigy
           A
A demon at Maths and Science
    A    G#    G   F#    F#7
I'm up---for---a---prize
       C                Bm
If you gotta grow up sometime
                        A   G#  G  F#  F#7
You've to do it on your own
        C                         Bm
I don't think I could stand to be stuck
                                A        (E  F#  G  G#)
That's the way that things were going

[Verse 3]
    A                            G#         G#7
The bible's my tool / There's no mention of school!
C#m7                      C#m7   Cm7  Bm7
My Damascan Road's my transistor rad--io
Bm7                        C#m7                    D
I tune in at night when my mum and my dad start to fight
            E
I put on my headphones

[Chorus]
     D               Dm
And I tune out / I am devout
                           A
The girls are singing about my life
                                     F#
But they're not here, they've got the wild life
       C                      Bm
If you want to find out, find out
                            A   G#  G  F#  F#7 
You got to look them in the eye
              C            Bm
That's why my only choice
                            A
Is find the face behind the voice...

[Bridge]
    A                    Dm/A
She asked the man if the service was open
 G                   D/F#
"Not today, just the choir from the radio"
A                        Dm/A
"Couldn't I sit in? I've come all this way"
G                              D/F#
"Will you bugger off, I've got work to do!"
B            D                 A  A/G#  A/G  A/F#  A/E
The city was losing its appeal
B                       D                                  A  A/G#  A/G  A/F#  A/E
God was asleep / He was back in her village, in the fields

[Outro]
C                   F
Oh, if I could make sense of it all!
  C                                      F
I wish that I could sing / I'd stay in a melody (I would float along in my everlasting song)
C
What would I do to believe?

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