The Real Macaw

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Capo at 2 c f c am c f am g
C f am c f am g
Nothing can be further removed, not everybody wants to be soothed ooooh
D c am d g c
They're out there now in their padded cells and armchairs
Am d g
Waiting for the nervous twitch that signals fear
C f am c f am g
Hooked up to a cardiogram set up so it cuts out when you cry or laugh
D c am d g c
Worked by those who if you screw up treat you to a broken nose
Am d g
If you tap your toes
C g f
Passive resistance! if it's not for them then it's not for you
C g f
Passive resistance! where the only view is the right view
C g f g c f
Passive resistance! and it breaks my heart to know there's no heart involved

Put the demographics away, the directors and consultants have the final say
Hired in, take home all the ones who missed for souvenirs, for their kids to play

Passive resistance! it's all programmed by programmers
Passive resistance! you're just a nail underneath their hammers
Passive resistance! and it breaks my heart to know there's no heart in them

Instrumental verse

Nothing can be further removed, not everybody wants to be soothed
Oooh they must be real, people that you never meet and never feel
And they don't feel you

Passive resistance! you get surveyed out of existence
Passive resistance! just one in a million silent listeners
Passive resistance! it's all programmed by programmers
Passive resistance! you're just a nail underneath their hammers
Passive resistance! and it breaks your heart
To know there's no heart involved, involved, involved
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Intro c#m a g#m (three times) then c#m
E b
I got a real wooden heart girl, sometimes it's hard to ignite it
E b c#m
I must have water for blood girl, but don't cut me out or write me off
C#m e
You turn stone into flesh baby and i almost get human
C#m b b
Yeah and it's always the best baby, i hear your heart pitter patter
B
I feel your love start to shatter

Chorus
A
My glass jaw, and you can break this door
C#m c#m a g#m
And you can take me for, whatever you want

I got a head full of rocks girl, shake me around and i rattle
I must have ice here in blocks girl, being alive is a battle
I, i want to win when you're with me that's when things really happen
Yeah even grin when you're with me, you're arms around really bit yeah
You know the right place to hit it

Repeat chorus then instrumental section (c#m b e)

Ooh you turn stone into flesh baby and i almost get human
Yeah it's always the best baby, i hear your heart pitter patter
And then your love start to shatter

Repeat chorus

Oooh glass jaw, and you can break this door
And you can take, take me for, whatever you want b e
Whatever you want, whatever you want /pre>

pre>(the backing vocals at the ends of the lines are sung twice)

Intro c#m a (twice)
C#m a
I got to break this armour, cutting off all the feeling (don't wear it)
It's like a melodrama, everybody's scene stealing (just bear it)
It's always the same old number, they never let you out of school (it's nothing)
Well i gotta gun that's loaded, i want to hurt some fool (don't shoot it)

Chorus
C#m b a b
Well the woods are full of wardens,
C#m b a b
They are digging up remains
C#m b a b
It feels like the big stick that smacks of oppression
B (g#m7) c#m
And it sounds like chains

Repeat intro

I wanna bite the hand, bite off the hand that fed me (don't eat it)
I want to turn the knife, turn the knife that bled me (you need it)
You've got it all wrong, you never heard what i said (don't worry)
Well i got a gun that's loaded, it's not pointing at my head
(don't rush it, don't hurry)

Chorus 2
No-one can keep these ropes around me, or take the blood out of my veins
I'll just pull the trigger back as the volume gets stronger
And it sounds like chains
E b c#m c#m
Instrumental then "sounds like chains" 4 times then "oooh chains" and
More instrumental bits.

Choruus 3
Nothing hurts me any longer, there isn't room for any pain
I'll just pull the trigger back as the volume gets stronger
And it sounds like chains

Oooh chains, sounds like chains, ooh chains, sounds like chains
(repeat and fade) /pre>

pre>d g
It's gone beyond a joke, it's gone beyond a laughing matter
D g
We had a flag out in the wind, now it's reduced to just a tatter
C c c
I get the feeling it's all getting out of control
C d g c
I want to be back where we can feel with our real senses ooooh
C d g c
I want to be back where we had every day defences

Chorus
C d c
What did we have? ooooh what did we do?
C d c
What kind of love could not pull us through?
G d a
It was another kind of world and nobody spoke, it was...

Getting beyond a joke, getting beyond a laughing matter, matter, matter
I walked out onto the street, the buildings, the people
Were reduced to tatters, tatters, tatters
It's almost like i am being crushed from inside
I want to touch your hand but it feels a skeleton's grasp ooooh
I want to be in command but i'm just a speck in a swell in a rasp

What did we have? ooooh what did we do?
What kind of love could not pull us through?
It was another kind of time and nobody spoke, it was

Verse
Getting beyond a joke, it was getting beyond a joke,
It was getting beyond a joke

Instrumental completes verse and chorus

Verse
It's getting beyond a joke, it's getting way beyond a laughing matter (x3)
Hands slip, feet trip, lips twist in a grimace every sound's a clatter (x3)
Paper and sky are torn in a terrible way
Everything's been reborn into a world that isn't quite dying
All of the clothes we've worn are too soaking wet to be dry in

Chorus 2
What did we have? ooooh what did we do?
What kind of love could not pull us through?
It was another kind of time and nobody spoke, it was...

Verse
Getting beyond a joke, it was getting beyond a joke, (repeat and fade)
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Thanks to kirk anderson (kanderso@wheatonma.edu) for the chords
Capo at 4

Intro: em, c, em, c, em, c, em, c

Em c em c
This is our first year, no-one else but us here
D c
And even with the darkness all around us
G c
We look into each other's eyes and understand
G c
Why true love is in such demand

I've got a gift wrapped, we have got a course mapped
And everything i've wanted since i met you
Everything that's haunted me is out of view
G c g
So darlin' can't you see, how much i love you on

C em, c, em, c
Our anniversary hmmmmm

D c g c d c am
Whoh oooo ooo ooo ooo whoh oooo ooo ooo ooo

Sax solo: chords on the sax solo go like this:
Em, c, d (two times) and then
Em, c, d c g c g

You got a sweet kiss, oooh you know i need this
I need everything you have to give me
I need you to live with me
So darlin' can't you see, how much i love you on
Our anniversary

(chords continue over 4 chorus repeats)

Well darlin' can't you see, how much i love you on, our anniversary
Oooh darlin' can't you see, how much i love you on, our anniversary hmmmmm
Darlin' can't you see, how much i love you on, our anniversary
Well darlin' can't you see, how much i love you on, our anniversary
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pre>cmaj9 320010 dmaj9 xx0220

C cmaj9, am, f (four times)
Intro oooohs

C g c f
I used to think that it all stopped happening
C cmaj9 am f
By the time you reached twenty one
C g c f
They said there's nothing like the first love you get boy
G f
They were wrong, oh so wrong,
G f g
They hung on and hung on, to their dream, i know
Chorus
C cmaj9 am f
Oooh life gets better yeah
C cmaj9 am f
When ever i'm in her arms
C cmaj9 am f
Just to know i'm not the average fella
G f c g c
I'm the one, i'm the one for her

Well it's a shame what they do to these young kids
Just encourage them to act like clowns
And then they think that they don't have much longer
Knocked up the first time she let em get down
Put four walls around and then scream, but i know

Repeat chorus

Bridge
F g c
Life stretches before me an endless mystery
Cmaj9 f g
And nothing can bore me, when she's with me
F g c
I feel the heartbeat of the world in the hands of this girl
Cmaj9 g f g f g f am
But it takes so much time to, to finally see, see, see

D a d g
I get a thrill when i think how it really is
D dmaj9 bm g
Noone can ever take that away
D a d g
They try to put rubber bands around your heart
A g a
But they're wrong, oh so wrong, they hung on
G a
And hung on, to their dream, but i know

D dmaj9 bm g
Oooh life gets better yeah
D dmaj9 bm g
When ever i'm in her arms
D dmaj9 bm g
Just to know i'm not the average fella
A g d
I'm the one, i'm the one for her

Oooh life gets better yeah, when ever i'm in her arms
Just to know i'm not the average sucker, i'm the one, i'm the one for her

Oooh life gets better yeah, oooh life gets better yeah
Oooh life gets better yeah /pre>