C                   Am
Holy smokes, these future Jokes
     F                              G
You call me on my landline just to blow some smoke
     C                          Am
And tell me that our whole life feels like a hoax
     F                                  G
Just like the lunar landing and those talking goats


[Chorus]

    G         F          C
Surprise, surprise, surprise
           F            Am     G
Can’t you see it shining in my eyes?
     G         F         C
Surprise, surprise, surprise
                F            Am   G          Dm
We’re all so learned and so civilized, my baby


Dm  Am  G   G


[Verse 2]

      C             Am
Holy smokes, these future jokes
         F                                  G
Eight billion people spinning just like bicycle spokes
     C                          Am
The cinematic scope of the apocalypse
     F                                  G
When it all goes to hell there won’t be nothing left
             Dm            C
But chips and dip in mini-marts
     F                                  G
But what’s the shelf life of a broken heart?


[Chorus]

     G        F          C
Surprise, surprise, surprise
          F             Am      G
Can’t you see it shining in my eyes?
     G         F         C
Surprise, surprise, surprise
                F            Am   G         Dm
We’re all so learned and so civilized, my baby
G               Dm
Oh, my baby
G               Dm
Oh, my baby
G               Dm
Oh, my baby
G               Dm
Oh, my baby
G        F      C
Hey, hey, hey, yeah


[Verse 3]
      C             Am
Holy smokes, these future jokes
         F                            G
Found your number on a scrap of paper in my coat
     C                                 Am
The earth has been around for several billion years
           F
And all us humans think we’re special but
        G                   Dm
We’re nothing but the unshed tears
              C            F            G
Of a distant star, never knowing just who we are


[Chorus]

     G        F          C
Surprise, surprise, surprise
           F            Am      G
Can’t you see it shining in my eyes?
     G        F          C
Surprise, surprise, surprise
        F               Am     G
Our masochism goes so undisguised
     G        F          C
Surprise, surprise, surprise
                F           Am    G           Dm
We’re all so learned and so civilized, my baby

[Outro]

G               Dm
Oh, my baby
Oh, my baby