Intro: C#G#F#C#C#F#C#, C#G#F#C#C#F#C#
Verse 1:
G#C#G#F#C#C#F#C#
Down in the gutter of my life story, I’m lying in a bed with a dream playing in my head
G#C#G#F#C#C#F#C#
Spitting blood into a test tube, I used to be half a man, I used to be useful
F#C#F#C#
I walk with the demons and the devils, shadow boxing the ghosts of my reflection in windows
D#mG#D#mG#
All the pigeons and the statues are staring down at me
F#C#F#C#G#
At the drunk and the disorderly
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At the drunk and the disorderly
Intro (repeated): C# G# F# C# C# F# C#, C# G# F# C# C# F# C#
Verse 2:
G#G#C#G#F#C#C#F#C#
Paper bag bottles in the wardrobe, stealing from the shops where I once bought my hope
G#G#C#G#F#C#C#F#C#
I'm all wrapped up in a plastic bag I'm lying still while the human race step over the rags
F#C#F#C#
I’ll name the names in my diatribe, posthumously posted on my website
D#mG#D#mG#
Milkmen and taxi drivers, the last men on the street
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And the drunk and the disorderly
Chorus:
C#G#BbmF#
Who am I, who are you, who is the god that we bow down to
C#G#BbmF#C#G#F#C#C#F#C#C#G#F#C#C#F#C#
Who are we, who are they, who is the master, who is the slave
Verse 3:
G#G#C#G#F#C#C#F#C#
I stepped out of the present tense, I cut the umbilical chord of reality
G#C#G#F#C#C#F#C#
I don’t know where this really is or where all this illusion really begins
F#C#F#C#
I keep an old business card inside my shoes, an anonymous connection to the life I once used
D#mG#D#mG#
Curtains moving in the council houses on the grey estates
F#C#F#C#G#
Of the drunk and the disorderly
Chorus:
C#G#BbmF#
Who am I, who are you, who is the god that we bow down to
C#G#BbmF#G#
Who are we, who are they, who is the master, who is the slave
Verse 4:
G# NC F# C#
I am powerless, there is a greater power, as I understand it, within myself
G#F#C#G#F#C#G#F#C#G#F#C#
I’m ready for changing, I’m ready to be changed, hear my voice, call and be called
F#C#G#F#C#F#C#G#F#C#
I know where the bodies have been buried, I know things only the dead should know
D#mG#D#mG#
All above me, all around me, within and without
F#C#F#C#G#
Are the drunk and the disorderly
F#C#F#C#G#
Are the drunk and the disorderly
Ending:
C#F#D#m
The drunk and the disorderly
C#F#D#m
The drunk and the disorderly, hear my voice
C#F#D#m
The drunk and the disorderly
C#F#D#m
The drunk and the disorderly, call and be called
C#F#D#m
The drunk and the disorderly
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The drunk and the disorderly