D# G# D# G#
D# G# D# A#


[Verse 1]
        D#                     G#
Robert Smith is secure at his villa in France
     D#                         G#
Any child knows how to do the spiderweb dance
         Cm
Siouxsie has enough hits to keep the bills paid
       D#                                 A#
Every New Year's in Los Angeles you can still see Richard Blade


[Chorus]
         G#   A#                        D#
But the world forgot about Gene Loves Jezebel
           G#   A#                       D#
Yeah, the world forgot about Gene Loves Jezebel

D# G# D# G#
D# G# D# A#


[Verse 2]
      D#
They charted once or twice
          G#
They were on a major label
          D#
When the singer went solo
         G#
He left money on the table
        Cm
The two main guys are related

They're at war with each other
            D#
Now there's two Genes loving Jezebel
G#           A#
One for each brother


[Bridge]
         G#   A#       Cm
But the world came to agree
G#                           A#
    What you see is what you get
Cm
And what you get is what you see
                   Cm                      A#
Whether you're The March Violets or The Bolshoi
          D#                                Cm
Bands who had to leave the darkness for the sun
     G#                          Cm
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry were on Cherry Red I think
             Cm                   A#
They've been playing clubs since 1981


[Verse 3]
      D#
To be fair to Gene Loves Jezebel
      G#
Billy Corgan brought them on stage
          D#
It was in 2011
                G#
It's on their Wikipedia page
             Cm
But for the most part

However big that chorused bass may throb
        G#
You and me and all of us
                   A#
Are gonna have to find a job


[Chorus]
            G#               A#            D#
Because the world will never know or understand
G#
    The suffocated splendor
                            A#
Of the once and future goth band


[Outro]
D# G# D# G#
D# G# D# A#
D# D# D# D#