Parents

[Intro]
Gm D# A# Cm


[Verse]
Am 
  
                 D#                 A#
  I was born in a messed up century

My favourite flavoured sweets
    Cm                     Gm
are raspberry amphetamines
                
  I bought a car,
          D#
Beretta, age sixteen
           A#
I brush my teeth with bleach
         Cm  
’cause I ain’t

got time for cavities


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

friend, 'cause my


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


[Interlude]
    D#      A#
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Cm      Gm
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    D#      A#
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Cm         \
I-I-I-I-I-I-I


[Verse]

Put a toaster in my bath,

watch my mum and dad laugh
      A#  
See a thousand volts

go through the son
     Cm
they wish they never had
             Gm
They told me casual affection
         D#
leads to sexual infection
         A#
But it's hard to get an erection
            Cm
when you're so used to rejection


[Verse]
          Gm  
Yeah, the teacher

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


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


[Interlude]
    D#      A#
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Cm      Gm
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    D#      A#
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Cm
I-I-I-I-I-I-I


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

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


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


[Outro]
    D#      A#
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Cm      Gm
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    D#      A#
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Cm      Gm
I-I-I-I-I-I-I