Civil servant Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[A]
[Bb][A][Eb]

[Verse 1]
[A]Open [Am]your eyes,
[F]time to [Dm]wake [A]up
Shit, shower, brush [Am]your teeth,
drain your cup
Wolf down a bowl of [Dm]Ready- [Am]Brek
Fasten a [E]tie [A]around your neck
[Am]

[Verse 2]
[F]
[Dm]All over [D]the city [Dm]we a[C]rise,
[Am]arise[F]
For a job [Dm]we despi[Am]se,
[E]despise, [A]despise

[Verse 3]
I don't want to go [F]into
[C]work thi[E]s morning
[A]I don't think I can dea[F]l with
[C]the wrath of the [G]general [A]public
And I don't have the [D]heart to ex
[C]plain to [E]another poor soul
[F]Why it is their Disability Living Al[E]lowance will be

[Interlude 1]
stopping shortly
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[A][C][D][E][A]
[Am]Busfulls of meat slumped

[Verse 4]
[F]in our sea[A]ts
Staring at phone [Am]screens
and our own feet
Shuffling off [F]at the business [Dm]park
[Am]Let's linger awhil[A]e in the
smoking [Am]bubble[F]
From [E]every dir

[Verse 5]
[D]ection [Am]we
ar[C]rive. [Am]arrive[F]
With a swipe [Am]of the fob,
[A]the fob, the fob, the fob

[Verse 6]
I don't want to go [F]back to that
[C]seething [E]viper's [A]nest
I can't listen [F]anymore to the [C]bleating
of [G]the terminally de[A]pressed
Or the stream of [D]opinions from the
[C]creep in the office [E]next to mine
I [F]dream of bashing his skull into a
Brainy [E]pulp with a Sellotape dispenser

[Interlude 2]
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[A][D][A][C][D][E]
[A][Bb][A][Eb][F][A]
[Am][A][Am][F][A][D]
[A][Am][A][Am][A]
[Am][A]

[Verse 7]
[A]In [Am]the staff room, lost in [A]a daze
Shovel[Am]ling crisps into my face
After an unspeakably [Dm]aw fu[D]l
[A]Cal[Am]l wit[A]h a grieving mother
[Am]In Wetherspoons on t[F]he
fruit- [A]machines
[D]Sinking my ump[Am]teenth Peroni
Cackling like a hyen[Dm]a
[Am]At the nasty jokes[A] of my colleagues
None [Am]of whom [A]I c[Am]an s[F]tand
[Dm]In my

[Verse 8]
[D]bed,
[E]I can hea[C]r the[Am] strangled voi[E]ces[Am]
[F]Of all the peo[D]ple I'v[Am]e fai[A]led, I've failed,
I've failed

[Verse 9]
I don't want to [F]go in
[C]to work this mor[E]ning
[A]I just want to lie her[F]e and
[C]play the new [G]Call of [A]Duty
I finally [D]gathered [C]the courage
to [E]ring in sick

[Verse 10]
[A]I'm not coming into work today
I'm really ill
Not coming into work today
Or for that matter any other day
I'm sick to my soul
I refuse to do this dirty work anymore
I refuse, refuse, [A]refuse, re[A]fuse
Refuse, re[A]fuse, refuse

[Outro 1]
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