Intro: Cm  G

Cm             G           Cm           G
 The black cat firecracker snapped back baseball cappin' 
 Cm        G              Cm           G
 Cola-cola sippin' on the suds wearing penny loafers. 
     Cm          G                    Cm               G
 His Sunday best ain't good enough for the rest of the world.  
F        G                  F            Cm    G  Cm  G
 Yet, he stands in line and waits on his turn.  

     Cm       G             Cm       G
 The complex, disconfigured man, unassociated, 
 Cm           G           Cm            G   F`
 Agitated with the careful investigator taking notes.  
                   Cm                G
 He slowly tiptoes towards the dark.  

   Ab                Cm
 Watercolor sunset painted before his eyes. 
     Ab                              G
 The gateway has been opened, to the wonders of his mind.  
 Ab                     Cm
 He was a non-believer, now without a doubt.  
    Ab                                   G
 He looks up at the clouds, the chemical swirls fading in and out.  
  
Cm G Cm G

     Cm          G            Cm          G
 The peacekeeper drafted into war, with a loaded rifle. 
 Cm         G            Cm             G                Cm          G
 Unaware of consequences cold war ended with a spaceship has kind of shakers. 
        Cm              G            F
 He has been programmed to believe a lie.  
                                        Cm
 Yet, he stands there with a gun on the front line.  
  
 Ab                      Cm
 Blood red color sunset, painted before his eyes. 
     Ab                          G
 The veil has been lifted, as he watches his friends drop like flies. 
Ab                      Cm
 He was a non-believer, now without a doubt. 
    Ab                                  G
 He looks down at his paws, the guts he had spluttered on the ground.  

       Ab
 Yeah, yeah! 
       G
 Yeah, yeah!  
       Ab
 Yeah, yeah! 
       G
 Yeah, yeah! 

            G                       Cm
 The family got the letter, it was a message, clear and true.  
     Ab                           Cm
 The hero, he had fallen, for the red, white, and blue. 
Ab                      Cm
 He was a non-believer, now without a doubt.  
     Ab
 His body lays six feet under the ground. 
     G
 The black cat's nine lives, they ran out. 

       Ab
 Yeah, yeah! 
       G
 Yeah, yeah!  
       Ab
 Yeah, yeah! 
       G
 Yeah, yeah!