The Drunk And The Disorderly

Intro: C# G# F# C#   C# F# C#,  C# G# F# C#   C# F# C#

Verse 1:
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Down in the gutter of my life story, I’m lying in a bed with a dream playing in my head
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Spitting blood into a test tube, I used to be half a man, I used to be useful
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I walk with the demons and the devils, shadow boxing the ghosts of my reflection in windows
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All the pigeons and the statues are staring down at me
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At the drunk and the disorderly
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At the drunk and the disorderly

Intro (repeated): C# G# F# C#   C# F# C#,  C# G# F# C#   C# F# C#

Verse 2:
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Paper bag bottles in the wardrobe, stealing from the shops where I once bought my hope
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I'm all wrapped up in a plastic bag I'm lying still while the human race step over the rags
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I’ll name the names in my diatribe, posthumously posted on my website
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Milkmen and taxi drivers, the last men on the street
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And the drunk and the disorderly

Chorus:
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Who am I, who are you, who is the god that we bow down to
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Who are we, who are they, who is the master, who is the slave
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Verse 3:
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I stepped out of the present tense, I cut the umbilical chord of reality
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I don’t know where this really is or where all this illusion really begins
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I keep an old business card inside my shoes, an anonymous connection to the life I once used
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Curtains moving in the council houses on the grey estates
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Of the drunk and the disorderly

Chorus:
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Who am I, who are you, who is the god that we bow down to
C#          G#            Bbm                F#              G#
Who are we, who are they, who is the master, who is the slave

Verse 4:
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I am powerless, there is a greater power, as I understand it, within myself
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I’m ready for changing,     I’m ready to be changed,     hear my voice,     call and 
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be called
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I know where the bodies have been buried,       I know things only the dead should know
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All above me, all around me, within and without
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Are the drunk and the disorderly
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Are the drunk and the disorderly

Ending:
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The drunk and the disorderly
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The drunk and the disorderly, hear my voice
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The drunk and the disorderly
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The drunk and the disorderly, call and be called
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The drunk and the disorderly
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The drunk and the disorderly