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[Verse 1]
A            E D    A              E D
 What kind of people live in these houses?
A             E D
 What kind of sad dad
A                  E D
 Scratches in this crash-pad?
C#m            D
 T-shirts or blouses?
C#m              E
 Torn jeans or trousers?
A            E D    A              E D
 What kind of people live in these houses?
C#m            D
 T-shirts or blouses?
C#m              E
 Torn jeans or proper trousers?
F#m           F#m/E#
 They vote the way they vote
      F#m/E               B
 They don't know how to change
                E                    A  E D
 Because their parents did the same

[Verse 2]
      A           E  D   A          E     D
 And where will they be ten years from today?
     A        E   D
 Bed-sitter, bed-wetter?
     A         E   D
 Or penthouse go-getter?
A      E       D
 What carpet-chewer
A           E     D
 Lights up this sewer?
C#m                      D
 And which rough trade strangers
C#m                  E
 Flail around these chambers?
A          E      D
 And what dented gent
A                E  D     C#m D C#m E
 Bends over in this tent?
F#m              F#m/E#             F#m/E
 They sleep with who they sleep with
         B                E                   A  E D
 Only because they are afraid to taste change

[Verse 3]
      A           E  D   A          E     D
 And where will they be ten years from today?
  A         E D
 Dogface in a duplex?
  A           E D
 Boisterous in cloisters?
  A           E D
 Grabbing in a cabin
         A             E D
 Or squatting on your quarters, oh
C#m            D
 Sat home and folksy
C#m                  E
 Smelling in their dwelling
F#m           F#m/E#      F#m/E               B             F#m
 They look at television thinking it's their window to the world
           F#m/E#      F#m/E               B                E
 They look at television thinking it's their window to the world
                   E
 That's got to hurt
       A              E D             A     E D
 Who cares what people live in these houses?