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Spoken
So there was this woman,
and she was on an airplane,
and she was flying to meet her fiancé
sailing high above the largest ocean on planet earth,
and she was seated next to this man who... you know,
she had tried to start conversations, but, only,
really the only thing she had heard him say was just to order his Bloody Mary,
and she was sitting there
and she was reading this really arduous magazine article
about a third world country that she couldn't even pronounce the, the name of,
and she was feeling very bored... and very despondent
and then... and then uh, suddenly there was this huge mechanical failure
and one of the, the engines gave out,
and they started just falling thirty-thousand feet.
The pilot's on the microphone and he's,
he's saying, “I'm sorry, I'm sorry, oh my god… I'm sorry” and apologizing,
and, and she looks at the man and she, and she says,
she says,
(Begin muted strumming 16th notes)
she says, “Where are we going?”.
And uh, and he looks at her and he says,
“We're going to a party.
It, it's a birthday party.
It's your birthday party,
Happy birthday, darling. We love you very, very, very, very, very, very, very much.”
And then um, he starts humming this little tune, and,
and uh it kinda goes like this,
it's kinda: 1, 2, 1-2-3-4
Intro
C C F x3
Verse 1
we must talk on every telephone get eaten off the web
we must rip out all the epilogues from the books that we have read
and in the face of every criminal strapped firmly to a chair
we must stare, we must stare, we must stare
we must take all of the medicine too expensive now to sell
set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell
and in the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream
we must sing, we must sing, we must sing, it'll go like this alright
Bridge
While my mother waters plants my father loads his gun
he say death will give us back to god, just like the setting sun
is returned to the lonesome ocean
Instrumental
C C F x3
And then they splashed into the deep
blue sea
Oh, it was a wonderful splash
Verse 2
we must blend into the choir sing as static with the whole
we must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul
and in this endless race for property and privilege to be won
we must run, we must run, we must run
we must hang up in the belfry where the bats and moonlight laugh
we must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past
and in the caverns of tomorrow with just our flashlight and our love
we must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge
Spoken
And then we'll get down there, way down to the very bottom of everything
And then we'll see it, oh we'll see it, we'll see it, we'll see it
Bridge
oh my morning's coming back the whole world's waking up
all the city buses swimming past I'm happy just because
I found out I am really no one
Instrumental
C F x3
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