IT'S THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT (AND I FEEL FINE)



 G                               C

> That's great it starts with an earthquake

                          G

> Birds and snakes and aeroplanes

                       C

> Lenny Bruce is not afraid

  G

> Eye of a hurricane listen to yourself churn

  C

> World serves its own needs dummy serve your own needs

  G

> Speed it up a notch speed grunt nose street burn

      C

> The ladder starts to clatter with dinner fight down height

  Bb

> Wire in a fire room represent the southern gangs

          A

> In a government for hire and a combat site



{same as before}

> Lefty wasn't coming in a hurry

> With the furies breathing down your neck

> Team by team reporters grapple trunk tethered crop

> Look at that low plane fine then

> Uh oh overflow population cornered

> But it'll do save yourself serve yourself

> World serves its own needs listen to your heartbeat

> Tell me that the reds are in the reverend in the right right?

> You patriotic patriotic slam fight right might feeling pretty psyched

>

           G            D          Am

> It's the end of the world as we know it

           G            D          Am

> It's the end of the world as we know it

           G            D          Am                  C     C/B

> It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine

>

> Six o'clock TV hour don't get caught foreign tower

> Slice and burn return listen to yourself churn lock him in uniform

> And book-burning blood-letting every motive escalate

> Automotive incinerate light a candle light a motive

> Step down step down watching heel crush crush

> Uh oh this means no fear cavalier renegade steer clear

> A tournament a tournament a tournament of lies

> Offer me solutions offer me alternatives and I decline

>

> It's the end of the world as we know it

> (It's time I had some time alone)

> It's the end of the world as we know it

> (It's time I had some time alone)

> It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine



   G      C       G       C      G      F

  I feel fine    I feel  fine

>

> The other night I drifted nice continental trip to find

> Mount Saint Edelite Leonard Bernstein

> Leonid Brezhnev Lenny Bruce and Lester Bangs

> Birthday party cheesecake jellybeans boom

> You symbiotic patriotic slam foot neck right right