CDm
Oh! Well, remember the guy who was a football star?
F
He had it made with the ladies but he never got far.
CDm
Five years past, now he's gotten kind of fat,
F
working eight days a week at the Laundromat.
CDm
With his Momma and his Daddy breathing down his neck,
F
about everything he does so much it makes him sick.
CDm
So he sits home alone, with the game on TV,
F
as the crowd goes wild he says, "That coulda been me!"
CDm
Just another day in Suburbia, it's a beautiful day in Suburbia
EmF
Best not let it get the best of you
CG
Is it everything you thought it would be?
CDm
Remember playing games at the rich kid's home?
F
His Dad owned a bank, while his mom was alone.
CDm
Everyday with the mailman, the trash man, lawn guy...
F
Kid didn't look a damn thing like his Dad (I knew why)
CDm
He grew up got a job making eighty grand a year
F
Had a wife and kid, all the guys call a queer
CDm
But his dad never knew, he was too blind to see
he said, "Guess it kinda ran in the family".
CDm
Just another day in Suburbia, it's a beautiful day in Suburbia
EmF
Best not let it get the best of you
CG
Is it everything you thought it would be?
CDm
Remember the girl down the street with the kids
F
That used to come outside, but she never did?
CDm
(why?) 'Cause she was trying to hide the bruises where her old man beat her,
F
'cause he hit her in the face with an old space heater. (ow!)
CDm
and he came home drunk and tried to force sex on her
F
But he didn't see a 44 stuffed in the covers
CDm
So she waited 'til he came, he lie there naked
F
Before she blew his head off, she told him she'd been faking
CDm
all along, so long for everything you done wrong
F
Here's a bullet, go to hell, 'cause its where you belong!
CDm
Just another day in Suburbia, it's a beautiful day in Suburbia
EmF
Best not let it get the best of you
CG
Is it everything you thought it would be?
CDm
Just another day in Suburbia, Yeah, this is how we're living in Suburbia
EmF
Best not let it get the best of you
CG
Is it everything you want it to be?
CDm
Remember the cutest couple in the world
F
Ya know he was the punk and she was Daddy's little girl.
CDm
and graduation came and she wanted him to stay
F
he had bigger better dreams waiting out in L.A.
CDm
She cried and he cried as the plane flew away
F
She never, ever, wanted it to end this way.
CDm
Two years later she reads in the news,
F
he'd gone on to be a big star but nobody knew.
CDm
'cause he changed up his name but his heart stayed the same,
F
'cause every song he wrote, was about her, he claimed.
CDm
he never got to tell her 'cause he died that year,
F
from all of the coke, and the pills, and the beer,
CDm
and the whole world cried, but just for one day
F
'cause sooner or later, the pain goes away.
CDm
Just another day in Suburbia, it's a beautiful day in Suburbia
EmF
Best not let it get the best of you
CG
Is it everything you thought it would be?
CDm
Just another day in Suburbia, Yeah, this is how we're living in Suburbia
EmF
Best not let it get the best of you
CG
Is it everything you want it to be?