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Intro

C - Am - C - Am





Couplet



C          E

Johnny wanna be a big star



       Am        F

Get on stage and play the guitar



        C          E

Make a little money, buy a fancy car



        Am             F

Big old house and an alligator



  C                         E

Just to match with them alligator shoes



      Am    F

He's a rich man so he's no longer singing the blues



D

He's singing songs about material things



    G

And platinum rings and watches that go bling



     C  E

But, diamonds don't bling in the dark



     Am    F

He a star now, but he ain't singing from the heart











C        E

Sooner or later he's just gonna fall apart



   Am         F

Coz his fans can't relate to his new found art



C            E

He ain't doing what he did from the start



Am       F

And that's foolish cause and feeling it far (????)



D

He decided to live his life shallow



G

Passion is love for material



Chorus



        C               G

And its gone... gone... going...



Am  F

Gone... everything gone... give a damn...



C       G     Am                 F

Gone be the birds when they don't want to sing...



     C G     Am       F                C - Am - C - Am

Gone people... up awkward with their things... gone.



C - E - Am - F

You see yourself in the mirror

And you feel safe coz it looks familiar

But you afraid to open up your soul

Coz you don't really know, don't really know

Who is, the person that's deep within

Coz you are content with just being the naïve brown man



D - G

And you fail to see that it's trivial

Insignificant, you addicted to material





C - E - Am - F

I've seen your kind before

You're the type that thinks souls is sold in a store

Packaged up with inscent sticks

With them vegetarian meals

To you that's righteous

You're fiction like books

You need to go out to life and look



D - G

Coz... what happens when they take your material

You already sold your soul and its...









Chorus



        C               G

And its gone... gone... going...



  Am  F

Gone... everything gone... give a damn...



C        G     Am                 F

Gone be the birds when they don't want to sing...



     C G        Am     F                C - Am - C - Am

Gone people... up awkward with their things... gone.





Chorus

C - E - Am - F

You say that time is money and money is time

So you got mind in your money and your money on your mind

But what about... that crime that you did to get paid

And what about... that bid, you can't take it to your brain

Why you on about those shoes you'll wear today



D - G

They'll do no good on the bridges you've walked along the way



C - C - E    

All that money that you got gonna be gone



Am - Am - F

That gear that you rock gonna be gone



C - C - E    

The house up on the hill gonna be gone



Am - Am - F

The gold burst on your grill gonna be gone



C - C - E    

The ice on your wrist gonna be gone



Am - Am - F

That nice little Miss gonna be gone



D - G

That whip that you roll gonna be gone

And what's worst is your soul will be gone



Chorus

        C               G

And its gone... gone... going...



  Am  F

Gone... everything gone... give a damn...



 C        G     Am                 F

Gone be the birds when they don't want to sing...



     C G        Am     F            C - Am - C - Am (2x)

Gone people... up awkward with their things... gone.