Figures On a Beach

Accidentally 4Th Street

Figures On a Beach


Tom: A

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[Verse 1]
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Well we're looking at the cover,
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We're spending all our time
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Just staring at the magazine


[Verse 2]
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Well, look who's on the cover,
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wasting all our time
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some pseudo-fascist hero-machine


[Verse 3]
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Well, that's no space for a human being
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That man is not a hero or saint.
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When somewhere in deepest America,
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Grown men weep at the sound of his name
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So it goes, and it goes


[Chorus]
E                   A  E
All the girls named Gloria
A            D      E
Sing sweetly out of key.
E                   A      E
The sun rose in the west today,
    A            D           E
accidents in the land of the free, yeah


[Verse 4]
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Well I grew up where they showed you the body count
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In color on your dinner TV
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And I've been numbed so insensitive
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That all I can think about is You and Me
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You know, children from the best homes
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They all have guns n' butter
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They have their share of murder blue
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Well it's not such a wiggy-awesome good time
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When the shopping-mall militia point their cannons at you..
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So it goes..


[Chorus]
E                   A  E
All the girls named Gloria
A            D      E
Sing sweetly out of key.
E                   A      E
The sun rose in the west today,
    A            D           E
accidents in the land of the free
E                           A       E
I love this world harder in my imagination
     A             D        E
Than my conscience should allow
E                        A              E
But accidents do happen, accidents will happen
         A        D      E
Don't you dare to ask me how.


[Instrumental]
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[Verse 5]
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Now everyone believes in
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The stories about the Cadillacs
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Everybody's got enough to eat
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And people always keep their eyes glued to the ground
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When desperate men, he's gotta cling to the streets
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And I swear, "Myself, I will help them. I will be an upstanding man."
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Well, when I walk by and I hear them cry
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That money just sticks to my hand
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What's wrong with me?


[Chorus]
E                   A  E
All the girls named Gloria
A            D      E
Sing sweetly out of key.
E                   A      E
The sun rose in the west today,
    A            D           E
accidents in the land of the free
E                           A       E
I love this world harder in my imagination
     A             D        E
Than my conscience should allow
E                        A              E
But accidents do happen, accidents will happen
          A       D      E
Don't you dare to ask me how.


[Outro]
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On and on it goes
E                   A  E
All the girls named Gloria
A            D      E
Sing sweetly out of key.
E                   A      E
The sun rose in the west today,
    A            D           E
accidents in the land of the free