Parents

[Intro]
F#m D A Bm


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

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

got time for cavities


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

friend, 'cause my


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


[Interlude]
    D      A
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Bm      F#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    D      A
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Bm         \
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
     Bm
they wish they never had
             F#m
They told me casual affection
         D
leads to sexual infection
         A
But it's hard to get an erection
            Bm
when you're so used to rejection


[Verse]
          F#m  
Yeah, the teacher

fucked the preacher
    D
but then he had to leave her
       A                  
  Had to wash away the sins
      Bm
of a male cheerleader
F#m                   
  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                 F#m
  High hopes are getting low
              E             D
Because these people are so old
             A              F#m
The way they think about it all
     E                         D
If I tried, I would never know
        A                 F#m
My high hopes are getting low
      E                        D
But I know I'll never be alone
      A               F#m
It's alright, we'll survive
      \                    F#m
Cause parents ain't always right


[Interlude]
    D      A
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Bm      F#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    D      A
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Bm
I-I-I-I-I-I-I


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

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


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


[Outro]
    D      A
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Bm      F#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    D      A
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    Bm      F#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I