In answer to the question about the groove this song is based on here
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is a rough version. I'm not sure if it's right nor not. It's possibly I've made
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it (the chorus especially) needlessly over-complicated. It's probably quite simple
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for someone who can actually play a bit.
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Intro:
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Am / Am / Am / Am / Dus2 / Dus2 / Dus2 / A9
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Am 577555
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Dsus2 557755
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A9 557555
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Am / Am / Am / Am / Dus2 / Dus2 / Dus2 / A9
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Ci vil is ation
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Am / Am / Am / Am / Dus2 / Dus2 / Dus2 / A9
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has come a long way
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D7
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Out of the mud where chitinous bugs
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Am / Am / Am / Am / Dus2 / Dus2 / Dus2 / A9
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eat each other all day
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Am / Am / Am / Am / Dus2 / Dus2 / Dus2 / A9
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Am / Am / Am / Am / Dus2 / Dus2 / Dus2 / A9
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[And so on for all the verses]
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Now we're in the clouds working overtime for our pay
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Countin' the numbers and being the bugs that eat each other today
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Sitting in an office in a publishing house
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Or in a big company working a computer clicking a mouse
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Pulling up your file checking your sales
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Meeting those quotas and accommodating voters that's the holy grail
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CHORUS
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Am C D D7 Dsus2 A9
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Cos it's a bean counter and if that don't fill you with terr or
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Am C D D7 Dsus2 A9
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Bean counter. Takin' the human out of the human err or
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In a glass tower uptown or downtown
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She's workin' every hour runnin' through your contract writing your deficit down
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She's downsizing everything including her brain
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Snackin' on potato chips smackin' her lips lickin' her pencil again
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CHORUS REPEAT
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From Wall Street to Hong Kong. Chinee to Chancery Lane
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You're being rubber stamped your style is being cramped. It all comes out the same
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They're not being paid to think. That's not the idea
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And they never run out of red ink, get that particularly clear
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CHORUS REPEAT
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Snackin' on potato chips givin' you a scan
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Deleting your account phasing you out in the trash can
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Now if you don't meet projections. If there ain't enough zeroes involved
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You'll get stamped rejections and then that problem is solved
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BEAN COUNTER - Graham Parker
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| Graham Parker |
