Number One In New York Chords

  			Verse 
A 
Salvage yard scavenging, bent over backwards 
    D 
The caverns are vast and packed to the rafters with 
A 
decaying corpses. Of course it's important??. 
D 
Pertinent details from primary sources 
    A 
The voices are louder than ever before, 
         D 
Sticking forks into four-legged horses 
           A 
Deplorable forces conspire to fire the lord 
       D 
and to hire a guy who will try to eat more of the 
E 
portions. A guy who's more boorish, 
                 D 
a guy who's more selfish, with elves as his helpers 
                 E 
Hopeless hapless masses are dopes, they suppose 
                  D 
It's the same old rigamarole that we know, 
                  E 
It's as bold as a rodeo. Run with the bulls??. 
                    D 
All the bullshit is so, so disposable. 

Open wounds, broken bones. 


Verse 
A 
Choking from smoking these Marlboro hundreds 
   D 
Dysfunctional, fuck up in front of the public 
A 
Dublin is so far away?? it's disgusting 
    D 
The way that these laymen conduct their discussions 
         A 
But it's fun to disrupt if youre cussing enough 
       D 
Then I call my own bluff, push my luck 
                    A 
Hungry husbands are smuggling in drugs with their blood bubbling, boiling 
  D 
Recoil from the touch of the boys in the club 
       E 
Noise erupts from the speakers, they scream from the bleachers 
D 
Creatures in need of a teacher 
              E 
The reason is clear as a really bleached t-shirt 
             D 
The fever is reaching its peak. 
                              E 
The deceivers are speaking of peace like it's reachable 
                             D 
The evil are peeking through cracks in the steeple. Believe it, it's real. 
         A 
'Tis the season, I'm breathing in poison, chest heaving, 
      D 
Can't even conceive of the next best thing 
             A 
??Arrest these heathens! Forget the trial, lock 'em up, toss the key ?� 
D 
Dot the T's, cross the I's, lots of apostrophes 
E 
Coughing up boxes of bucks to stay lost 
       D 
in the fog of this obnoxious process 
                 E 
My conscience is quiet, ensconced in the tarpit 
          D                                               G 
Cover the garden with carpet, forget and get onto the starship 


Verse 
                                   D 
We're off to another dimension?? the rent's too expensive here 
                         G 
Spent my whole pension improving my penmanship 
                     D 
When does it get any closer to ending? 
                           C 
And can I just mention the stench? 
                                        G 
It's relentless when in the presence of elegant gentlemen 
                              C 
The villains have taken their vengeance 
                                      G 
I regret to say they've collected the evidence 
                                     D 
Repent and pretend every entrance is open to tenants with references 
          C 
Declare myself president of the emptiness, 
           D 
Say I'm Rembrandt of dancing on the precipice 
             C 
Eleven years in and trying to stay relevant 
                    D 
But based on what's left of the remnants of my intestines 
        Dm 
I would guess I've ingested the medicine. 


Bridge 
          Em 
Yes, I've been everywhere but everywhere that I've been 
          Bm 
I've been out of my element, even in my own skin 
    E                                                D 
And I can't begin to think what I'd tell people back home 
     A                   D 
So I tell it to the microphone 
  A                   D 
I tell it to the microphone. 
E                       D 
I can't leave the life alone??. 
E                       D 
I can't leave the life alone??. 
  A                   D 
I tell it to the microphone. 
  A                   D 
I tell it to the microphone. 
E                       D 
I can't leave the life alone??. 
E                       D 
I can't leave the life alone??. 

Outro 
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