Intro
Principal Key: E Minor
Synthesizer Only: Dsus4, Em, Am, C, Em, G, Em (hold)
Other Instruments: Em (7 bars) to C (2 bars) to Em (8 bars)
Verse 1
Principal Key: E Minor
Em
I've been now sauntering
Out and down the path sometime
Come on, it takes me nowhere, which I knew
Faces everywhere pulling grins and signs in things
Telling me not there, man, it's no go
Don't go there boy
I need a reason
I can't think without one now
Too much learning got to show
Call it treason
Maybe catch her, don't know how
C D Em C D Em
Too many things, too much to know
I’ll bring my timing in, seagulls gather on the wind
Lady screaming, lady leave me out
'Cause sometimes people stare
Sitting down, electric chairs
And steaming crowds they gather and they shout
Don't know why this evil bothers me
Take another chance boy, carry the fight,
You can take him if you're fast
So why is he trying to follow me?
Didn't I say if you're holding on
You'd be laughing at the last
How many reasons do they need?
I get along fine with them friends of mine
But you have to make a choice
I might just believe this time
You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time
And it's us who makes the noise
Chorus
Principal Key: E Minor
D C Am
I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself,
G
It's a new religion
D C Am
I've something to see, I can't help myself,
G
It's a new religion
Verse 2 (chords the same as other verses)
Principal Key: E Minor
Em
Okay, my reasoning might be clouded by the sun
But someone sees the departmental lie
You know this peacetime jabbing fist in stabbing knife
Only get one look before you die
Don't know why this evil bothers me
Take another chance boy, carry the fight,
You can take him if you're fast
So why is he trying to follow me?
Didn't I say if you're holding on
You'd be laughing at the last
How many reasons do they need?
I get along fine with them friends of mine
But you have to make a choice
I might just believe this time
You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time
Em
And it's us who makes the noise
I'm talking for free, I can't stop myself,
It's a new religion
I've something to see, I can't help myself,
It's a new religion
Bridge
Principal Key: E Minor
Em (22 bars), D (7 7/8 bars), D#dim (1/8 bar)
Verse 3 (chords the same as other verses)
Principal Key: E Minor
Em
Gotta take pay the saints 'n sinners
In regulation hats 'n scarves 'n things
Walking in formation down the lane,
They carry their cross, make a church bell ring
Army majors pull a mean cool truth,
There lying in a swimming pool
Searching for the undeniable truth that
A man is just a fool
Don't know why this evil bothers me
Take another chance boy, carry the fight,
You can take him if you're fast
So why is he trying to follow me?
Didn't I say if you're holding on
You'd be laughing at the last
How many reasons do they need?
I get along fine with them friends of mine
But you have to make a choice
I might just believe this time
You're singing out of tune but the beat's in time
Em
And it's us who makes the noise
Transitions
Intro to Verse
Chords: Em to Em
Harmonic Function: i in E Minor to i in E Minor
Interval: (none)
Verse to Chorus
Chords: Em to D
Harmonic Function: i in E Minor to VII in E Minor
Interval: up 10 semitones / down 2 semitones
Chorus to Verse
Chords: G to Em
Harmonic Function: III in E Minor to i in E Minor
Interval: up 9 semitones / down 3 semitones
Chorus to Bridge
Chords: G to Em
Harmonic Function: III in E Minor to i in E Minor
Interval: up 9 semitones / down 3 semitones
Bridge to Verse
Chords: D#dim to Em
Harmonic Function: #vii in E Minor to i in E Minor
Interval: up 1 semitones / down 11 semitones