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[Verse 1]
[B/A]Up in a sterilised room where they let you be (Intro) la-a-zy.
[D/A]Knowing your attitude’s all wrong and you got to change and that’s not (Intro) ea-sy.
Dragon shining with all values known. (short riff)
Dazzling you keeping your from your own. (short riff)
[D/A]Where is the lion in you to defy him when you’re this weak and this (Intro) spa-cy?

[Verse 2]
[B/A]So what are you going to do about it? You can’t live life and you can’t (Intro) leave it.
[D/A]Advice and religion – you can’t take it. You can’t seem to (Intro) believe it.
The peacock is afraid to parade.
You’re under the thumb of the maid.
You [D/A]really can’t give love in this condition. Still you know how you (Intro) need it

[Chorus 1]
They open and close [Emaj7/G#]you and they talk like they know you, they don’t know you.
They’re friends and they’re foes t[Emaj7/G#]oo. Trouble child
Bsus B4 E E9+7 arpeggio Intro
breaking like the waves at Malibu

[Verse 3]
So [B/A]why does it come as such a shock to know you really have (Intro) no one?
[D/A]Only a river of changing faces looking for an (Intro) ocean
They trickle through your leaky plans
another dream over the dam
And you’re [D/A]lying in some room feeling like your right to be human is going over too.

[Chorus 2]
Well, some are going to knock [Emaj7/G#]you,
[Emaj7/G#]and some’ll try an’ clock you.
You know it’s really hard to talk sense to [Emaj7/G#]you, Trouble child
Bsus B4 E E9+7 arpeggio Intro
breaking like the waves at Malibu

Nothing is sacred
The ceremony sinks
Innocence is drowned
In anarchy
The best lack conviction
Given some time to think
And the worst are full of passion
Without mercy

[Refrain]
Surely some revelation is at hand
Surely it’s the second coming
And the wrath has finally taken form
For what is this rough beast
Its hour come at last
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born

[Verse 2]
Hoping and hoping
As if by my weak faith
The spirit of this world
Would heal and rise
Vast are the shadows
That straddle and strafe
And struggle in the darkness
Troubling my eyes

Shaped like a lion
It has the head of a man
With a gaze as blank
And pitiless as the sun
And it’s moving its slow thighs
Across the desert sands
Through dark indignant
Reeling falcons

[Refrain]
Surely some revelation is at hand
Surely it’s the second coming
And the wrath has finally taken form
For what is this rough beast
Its hour come at last
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born

[Verse 3]
Raging and raging
It rises from the deep
Opening its eyes
After twenty centuries
Vexed to a nightmare
Out of a stony sleep
By a rocking cradle
By the Sea of Galilee

[Refrain]
Surely some revelation is at hand
Surely it’s the second coming
And the wrath has finally taken form
For what is this rough beast
Its hour come at last
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born
Slouching toward Bethlehem to be born