Chord Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture / Love Me, Normally by Will Wood

Greetings from Mary Bell Township! Intro C F Dm Bb C Do-wop, ba, do-wop, ba, do-wop, ba, do, ba-ba-ba F Dm Bb C Do-wop, ba, do-wop, ba, do-wop, ba... Good morning! Verse 1 F Dm White picket fences Bb C Barbed wire and trenches F Dm Trick or treat, merry Christmas Bb C Howdy neighbor, thank you Jesus F A Dm G Oh, what is he building in that painted lady? Bb C A participation-trophy-wife or blonde, blue-eyed baby? F Dm Bb C Wide-eyed and wired, the snap-crackle-pop of the Geiger F Dm Camouflage billboards for lead-lined Brooks Brothers Bb C You elbow the jukebox and sing “Duck and Cover" F A Dm G And breed out our incisors, feed on white wine and Pfizer Bb C It don’t look like survival, b-but buy now or die Chorus F Dm Bb Suburbia--a--a--a C F Dm Bb You’re not alo--o--o--ne C F Dm Bb The lights are o--o--o--on C F But no one’s home Bbm F C So, welcome home Verse 2 F Dm Myers-Briggs, OKULTRA Bb C Takes a village to fake a whole culture F Dm Your ear to the playground, your eye on the ball Bb C Your head in the gutter, your brains on the wall F A Oh well, Home is where the heart is Dm G7 You ain’t homeless, but you’re heartless Bb It’s the safest on the market C C But you still gotta watch where you park it Verse 3 F Dm So give me your half-life crisis Bb C I can tell that you know where paradise is F Dm Where parasites don’t care what your blood type is Bb C Only pheromones and serotonin decide F A Dm G If it's true that a snowflake only matters in a blizzard Bb Everyone knows that nobody knows that C Everybody’s all up in my, everybody’s all up in my C Everybody’s all up in my business Chorus F Dm Bb Suburbia--a--a--a C F Dm Bb You’re not alo--o--o--ne C F Dm Bb The lights are o--o--o--on C F But no one’s home Bbm F So, welcome home Bridge Bb Bbm F Ch-ch-chameleon peacocks are talk of the town Dm A Well, word gets around on hit number stations Dm D He cums radiation Gm Dm Bb Eb The dog bites the postman while basement eyes dream Bb F Of a night at the drive-in with an AR-15 Vampire Culture Intro Gm Eb D Gm Eb Gm I dropped my eyeballs in the bonfire, we fucked on a bed of nails Gm Eb I caught Kuru from your sister and died laughing in jail Gm Smell those screaming teenage sweetbreads on the 4th of July grill Gm Smile and wave, boys, kiss the cook, live laugh and love, please pass the pills Verse 3 Eb It’s only culture, it’s only culture Eb D G Gm It’s only cu--u--ulture, sulfur, smoke, and soot Eb You learned to torture house cats like vultures D You cocked and sucked your lack of empathy, Pulled the trigger with your foot to prove you’ve got- Chorus Gm Cm Blood, didn’t they want your blood? D7 Gm So why apologize for being blue and cold? Gm Cm Blood, didn’t they want your blood? D Gm So don’t apologize for being blue and cold Gm Eb D Gm Verse 4 Eb It’s only culture, it’s only culture Gm It’s only ah, ah, ah, ah N,C, Culture’s not your friend Eb Hey, fuck your culture, I ain’t got no culture D7 It’s only culture, and it's more afraid of you than you are of it D7 Go on, drink that- Chorus Gm Cm Blood, didn’t they want your blood? D7 Gm So why apologize when you turn blue and cold? Gm Cm Blood, didn’t they want your blood? D Gm So don’t apologize for being blue and cold Bridge Gm Were you Nabokov to a Salinger? Gm Jung to Freud or Dass to a Leary? Gm Were you mother, daughter, subject, and author? Gm You don’t make the rules, you just write them down and do it by the book you throw around Love Me, Normally Outro Gm Do you know the difference between blazing trails and slash-and-burn? Cm D G Going against the grain and catching splinters? G You pull out your Rorschach like a paint-by-numbers treasure map C Cm D The ink upon your jigsaw piece trace you back to your fingerprints C D G E Well Lot he had his lot in life, Job his job and I guess you'll too, will die Am D G B The Lord looked down, said, “Hey, you’re only mortal” C D B Em Giveth and taketh away ‘til things come out a certain way C D G Leave you wondering when they might go back to normal B C G Leave you wondering why they can’t have just been normal... Piano Outro G Em Eb G