Suburbia Overture / Greetings from Mary Bell Township! / (Vampire) Culture / Love Me, Normally

[Greetings from Mary Bell Township!]

[Intro]
 
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     Do-wop, ba, do-wop, ba, do-wop, ba, do, ba-ba-ba
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Do-wop, ba, do-wop, ba, do-wop, ba...
 
Good morning!
 
 
[Verse 1]
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White picket fences
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Barbed wire and trenches
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Trick or treat, merry Christmas
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Howdy neighbor, thank you Jesus
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Oh, what is he building in that painted lady?
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A participation-trophy-wife or blonde, blue-eyed baby?
 
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Wide-eyed and wired, the snap-crackle-pop of the Geiger
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Camouflage billboards for lead-lined Brooks Brothers
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You elbow the jukebox and sing “Duck and Cover"
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And breed out our incisors, feed on white wine and Pfizer
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It don’t look like survival, b-but buy now or die
 
 
[Chorus]
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Suburbia--a--a--a
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You’re not alo--o--o--ne
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The lights are o--o--o--on
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But no one’s home
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So, welcome home
 
 
[Verse 2]
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Myers-Briggs, OKULTRA
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Takes a village to fake a whole culture
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Your ear to the playground, your eye on the ball
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Your head in the gutter, your brains on the wall
 
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Oh well, Home is where the heart is
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You ain’t homeless, but you’re heartless
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It’s the safest on the market
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But you still gotta watch where you park it
 
 
[Verse 3]
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So give me your half-life crisis
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I can tell that you know where paradise is
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Where parasites don’t care what your blood type is
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Only pheromones and serotonin decide
 
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If it's true that a snowflake only matters in a blizzard
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Everyone knows that nobody knows that
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Everybody’s all up in my, everybody’s all up in my
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Everybody’s all up in my business
 
 
[Chorus]
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Suburbia--a--a--a
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You’re not alo--o--o--ne
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The lights are o--o--o--on
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But no one’s home
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So, welcome home
 
 
[Bridge]
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Ch-ch-chameleon peacocks are talk of the town
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Well, word gets around on hit number stations
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He cums radiation
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The dog bites the postman while basement eyes dream
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Of a night at the drive-in with an AR-15
 
 
 
[(Vampire) Culture]
 
[Intro]
 
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I dropped my eyeballs in the bonfire, we fucked on a bed of nails
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I caught Kuru from your sister and died laughing in jail
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Smell those screaming teenage sweetbreads on the 4th of July grill
Gm
Smile and wave, boys, kiss the cook, live laugh and love, please pass the pills
 
 
[Verse 3]
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It’s only culture, it’s only culture
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It’s only cu--u--ulture, sulfur, smoke, and soot
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You learned to torture house cats like vultures
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You cocked and sucked your lack of empathy,
Pulled the trigger with your foot to prove you’ve got-
 
 
[Chorus]
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Blood, didn’t they want your blood?
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So why apologize for being blue and cold?
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Blood, didn’t they want your blood?
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So don’t apologize for being blue and cold
 
 
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[Verse 4]
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It’s only culture, it’s only culture
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It’s only ah, ah, ah, ah
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Culture’s not your friend
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Hey, fuck your culture, I ain’t got no culture
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It’s only culture, and it's more afraid of you than you are of it
D7
Go on, drink that-
 
[Chorus]
Gm                           Cm
Blood, didn’t they want your blood?
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So why apologize when you turn blue and cold?
Gm                           Cm
Blood, didn’t they want your blood?
          D                           Gm
So don’t apologize for being blue and cold
 
[Bridge]
Gm
Were you Nabokov to a Salinger?
Gm
Jung to Freud or Dass to a Leary?
Gm
Were you mother, daughter, subject, and author?
Gm
You don’t make the rules, you just write them down and do it by the book you throw around
 
 
[Love Me, Normally]
 
[Outro]
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Do you know the difference between blazing trails and slash-and-burn?
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Going against the grain and catching splinters?
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You pull out your Rorschach like a paint-by-numbers treasure map
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The ink upon your jigsaw piece trace you back to your fingerprints
 
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Well Lot he had his lot in life, Job his job and I guess you'll too, will die
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The Lord looked down, said, “Hey, you’re only mortal”
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Giveth and taketh away ‘til things come out a certain way
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Leave you wondering when they might go back to normal
 
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Leave you wondering why they can’t have just been normal...
 
 
[Piano Outro]
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