Parents

[Intro]
D#m B F# G#m


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

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

got time for cavities


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

friend, 'cause my


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


[Interlude]
    B      F#
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    G#m      D#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    B      F#
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    G#m         \
I-I-I-I-I-I-I


[Verse]

Put a toaster in my bath,

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

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


[Verse]
          D#m  
Yeah, the teacher

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


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


[Interlude]
    B      F#
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    G#m      D#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    B      F#
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    G#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I


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

                                       
  G#m
Because I got the feeling
         A#
that I'm gonna get shot


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


[Outro]
    B      F#
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    G#m      D#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    B      F#
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    G#m      D#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I