IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

(maybe I’m wrong and everyone else is right, but I hear it in the key of E not G)



E                               A

That's great it starts with an earthquake

                        E

Birds and snakes and aeroplanes

                     A

Lenny Bruce is not afraid

E              

Eye of a hurricane listen to yourself churn

A

World serves its own needs dummy serve your own needs

E

Speed it up a notch speed grunt nose street burn

    A

The ladder starts to clatter with dinner fight down height

F#m

Wire in a fire room represent the southern gangs

        B

In a government for hire and a combat site



(same as before}

Lefty wasn't coming in a hurry

With the furies breathing down your neck

Team by team reporters grapple trunk tethered crop

Look at that low plane fine then

Uh oh overflow population cornered

But it'll do save yourself serve yourself

World serves its own needs listen to your heartbeat

Tell me that the reds are in the reverend in the right right?

You patriotic patriotic slam fight right might feeling pretty psyched



         E            B          A

It's the end of the world as we know it 

         E            B          A

It's the end of the world as we know it

         E            B          A                         

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

 

Six o'clock TV hour don't get caught foreign tower

Slice and burn return listen to yourself churn lock him in uniform

And book-burning blood-letting every motive escalate

Automotive incinerate light a candle light a motive

Step down step down watching heel crush crush

Uh oh this means no fear cavalier renegade steer clear

A tournament a tournament a tournament of lies

Offer me solutions offer me alternatives and I decline

 

It's the end of the world as we know it

(It's time I had some time alone)

It's the end of the world as we know it

(It's time I had some time alone)

It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine





The other night I drifted nice continental trip to find

Mount Saint Edelite Leonard Bernstein

Leonid Brezhnev Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs

Birthday party cheesecake jellybeans boom

You symbiotic patriotic slam foot neck right right