Parents

[Intro]
G#m E B C#m


[Verse]
Am 
  
                 E                 B
  I was born in a messed up century

My favourite flavoured sweets
    C#m                     G#m
are raspberry amphetamines
                
  I bought a car,
          E
Beretta, age sixteen
           B
I brush my teeth with bleach
         C#m  
’cause I ain’t

got time for cavities


[Verse]
G#m                E
   My daddy put a gun to my head
     B
Said if you kiss a boy,
          C#m
I'm gonna shoot you dead
     G#m
So I tied him up with gaffa tape
      E
and I locked him in a shed
       B
Then I went out to the garden
      C#m~  
and I fucked my best

friend, 'cause my


[Chorus]
E      B                 G#m
  High hopes are getting low
              F#             E
Because these people are so old
             B              G#m
The way they think about it all
     F#                         E
If I tried, I would never know
        B                 G#m
My high hopes are getting low
      F#                        E
But I know I'll never be alone
       B               G#m
It's alright, we'll survive
      \                    G#m
Cause parents ain't always right


[Interlude]
    E      B
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    C#m      G#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    E      B
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    C#m         \
I-I-I-I-I-I-I


[Verse]

Put a toaster in my bath,

watch my mum and dad laugh
      B  
See a thousand volts

go through the son
     C#m
they wish they never had
             G#m
They told me casual affection
         E
leads to sexual infection
         B
But it's hard to get an erection
            C#m
when you're so used to rejection


[Verse]
          G#m  
Yeah, the teacher

fucked the preacher
    E
but then he had to leave her
       B                  
  Had to wash away the sins
      C#m
of a male cheerleader
G#m                   
  Hi, nice to meet ya,
     E
got nothing to believe in
   B                   
  So let me know when my
            \
breathing stops, cause my


[Chorus]
E      B                 G#m
  High hopes are getting low
              F#             E
Because these people are so old
             B              G#m
The way they think about it all
     F#                         E
If I tried, I would never know
        B                 G#m
My high hopes are getting low
      F#                        E
But I know I'll never be alone
      B               G#m
It's alright, we'll survive
      \                    G#m
Cause parents ain't always right


[Interlude]
    E      B
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    C#m      G#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    E      B
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    C#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I


[Bridge]
G#m
Tick tock, stop the clock
  C#m
Because I got the feeling
         D#
that I'm gonna get shot
G#m  
Tick tock, stop the clock

                                       
  C#m
Because I got the feeling
         D#
that I'm gonna get shot


[Chorus]
      E     B                 G#m
All my high hopes are getting low
              F#             E
Because these people are so old
             B              G#m
The way they think about it all
     F#                         E
If I tried, I would never know
         B                 G#m
My high hopes are getting low
      F#                         E
But I know I'll never be alone
       B               G#m
It's alright, we'll survive
      \                    G#m
Cause parents ain't always right


[Outro]
    E      B
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    C#m      G#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    E      B
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    C#m      G#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I