Bb            F         Gm        F                  Gm
You must be wondering ho- w the boy next door turned out.
        A               Bb                      F
Have a care, but don’t stare because he’s still there, lamenting
D            C#         C            C#      D
Policewomen, policemen, silly women, taxmen, uniformed whores, 
D        C#      C        C#     D
They who wish to hurt you,       work within the law
              Gm     Eb      A        F                G
This world is fu  -oh-oh   oh- ull so full of crashing bores,       
G             F              Eb               Dm                    Eb     
And I must be one coz no one ever turns to me to say, take me in your arms
Bb             F         E      Eb
……..Take me in your arms and love me


Bb          F           Gm       F                     Gm
You must be wondering ho - w the boy next door turned out, 
       A              Bb                        F
Have a care and say a prayer because he’s still there, lamenting

D             C#         C            C#      D
*Policewomen, policemen, silly women, taxmen, uniformed whores, 
D   C#   C    C#     D
Educated criminals   work within the law
               Gm   Eb      A           F               Gm
*This world is fu  -oh-oh   oh- ull so full of crashing bores, 
              F              Eb                  Dm               Eb     
And I must be one coz no one ever turns to me to say, take me in your arms
Bb              F        E     Eb
……..Take me in your arms and love me


Bb          F       Gm            F              Gm
What really lies beyond the constraints of my mind?
                 A        Bb                               F
Could it be the sea? With fate mooning back at me? No it’s just more
D        C#        C            C#       D
Lock–jaw popstars, thicker than pigshit, nothing to convey.
       D         C#     C         C#         D
But so scared to show intelligence, it might smear their lovely career

     Gm      Eb         A         F                  Gm          F          
This wo–rld, I am afraid, is designed for crashing bores, I am not one, 
     Eb
I am not one,

D                Eb      F                  Bb              C               
You don’t understand,   you don’t understand, And yet you can take me in  
               Eb          F        F      Gm     Gm                      Eb
your arms and love me, love me and love me, take me in your arms and love me
D                        Eb       F
Take me in your arms and love me,  take me in your arms and love me
Bb         C         Eb                 F
Would you do, would you do, what you should do, oh oh oh…