INTRO: (elec. power chords palm muted with occasional acoustic flourishes)
E (E, A, B) x4
EABEABE
What do these marching orders mean? Some halflit fairy tale I move bout their dreams
A B E A B E (E, A, B)x2
It’s what they do, step one-two. Marching ten paces in front of you
EABEABE
Let’s put this countdown clock away. Unfinished parts of the deathray on the lawn
A B E A B E (E, A, B)x2
Let them rust. Turn to dust, what the heart can’t imagine will trust
F#mBED
They, they say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make?
F#mBED
They say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make?
(E, A, B)x2
EABEABE
What do these marching orders say? Spelled out in a forgotten language, they leave
A B E A B E (E, A, B)x2
the voice wrecked, don’t connect, what the fuse was there to protect.
F#mBED
They, they say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make?
F#mBED
They say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make?
E, (elec. strum once:) E, F#m, C#m, B, E, F#m, C#m
EF#mC#mBEF#mC#m
C’mon really lose your voice. C’mon really lose it!
EF#mC#mBEF#mC#m
C’mon really lose your voice. C’mon really lose it!
F#mBED
They, they say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make?
F#mBED
They say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make?
F#mBED
They, they say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make?
F#mBEDE
They say we can’t make this stuff up, but what else could we make?
EABEABEAB
All your marching orders stay? Are we as past as many ways oh hell no, we won’t go,
EABEABEAB
Say hell no, we won’t go, Say hell no, we won’t go, say hell no, we wont go.
(OUTRO): (E, A, B) x4
End on E
Cheers, and Buy Mass Romantic, Electric Version, Twin Cinema, Challengers, Together, and
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-John Baer