Parents

[Intro]
C#m A E F#m


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

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

got time for cavities


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

friend, 'cause my


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


[Interlude]
    A      E
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    F#m      C#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    A      E
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    F#m         \
I-I-I-I-I-I-I


[Verse]

Put a toaster in my bath,

watch my mum and dad laugh
      E  
See a thousand volts

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


[Verse]
          C#m  
Yeah, the teacher

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


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


[Interlude]
    A      E
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    F#m      C#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    A      E
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    F#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I


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

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


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


[Outro]
    A      E
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    F#m      C#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I,
    A      E
I-I-I, I-I-I,
    F#m      C#m
I-I-I-I-I-I-I