A                                       F#m
Round and round and round and round and round we go
D                               A
Trying so hard to get a hold of everyone here
       F#m             D
We've got to show how much we love them all
A                     F#m
We squeak with idiot fake surprise
D
Flap our hands and flutter our eyes
     A                F#m
And lap up all their stupid lies
      D
We've got to love them all

[Chorus]
       E                       D
And I really don't know why we do it like this
E                               D
Imitation smiles and how "it's wonderful to be here!"
E                                D
I'm really not sure what we're so scared we'll miss

[Verse]
  A                                         F#m
So round and round and round and round and round we go
D 
Hanging on every shape they throw
      A                  F#m
It's strange the way we can't say no
    D
Until we love them all...

[Instrumental]
A  F#m  D  A  F#m  D

[Verse]
       A              F#m
So we laugh at every stupid joke
     D           
And smoke and choke and point and poke
     A             F#m
And gag on countless lines...
     D
How much we love them all!

[Chorus]
       E                       D
And I really don't know why we do it like this
E                               D
Imitation smiles and how "it's wonderful to be here!"
E                                D
I'm really not sure what we're so scared we'll miss

[Bridge]
E                            F#m
Maybe it's the sex with the drugs and the fools
     E                        F#m
Or maybe it's the promise of belief?
E                                F#m
Maybe it's the pleasure and the pain of the cruel
    E                           F#m
Or maybe it's the promise of relief?

[Outro]
       G                              D
And I know that we've said it so many times before
G                        D
"once more and never again"
     G                            D
But however many times that we've said it before
G                      D
Once more is never the end...