An REM cover off GBS's 1997 album, "Play". None of the chords on here sound correct to
me. So, I decided to finally figure out the chords myself. Very easy, only 3 chords. Not
nearly as easy to sing, however!
-Standard Tuning-
-Capo on the 2nd fret-
-The chords are played as follows:-
*All chords relative to the capo*
D: xx0232
A: x02220
G: 320003
(PM) = Palm mute the chord
(Ring) = Let the chord ring
[Intro]
D (PM) A (PM) G (Ring) G
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
[Verse 1]
D G
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds,
D G
snakes, an aeroplanes, Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
D G
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world
D
serves its own needs, dummy serve your own needs. Feed
G
it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength, Ladder
D
start to clatter with fear fight down height. Wire
G
in a fire, representing seven games, a government
D
for hire and a combat site. Left of west and coming in
G D
a hurry with the furies breathing down your neck. Team
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by team reporters baffled, trumped, tethered cropped.
G D
Look at that low playing! Fine, then. Uh oh,
G
overflow, population, common food, but it'll do. Save
D
yourself, serve yourself. World serves its own needs,
G
listen to your heart bleed dummy with the rapture and
D
the revered and the right, right. You vitriolic,
G
patriotic, slam, fight, bright light, feeling pretty
G (PM)
psyched.
[Chorus]
D A G
It's the end of the world as we know it
D A G
It's the end of the world as we know it
D A G
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
[Verse 2]
Six o'clock - TV hour. Don't get caught in foreign
towers. Slash and burn, return, listen to yourself
churn. Locking in, uniforming, book burning, blood
letting. Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate.
Light a votive, light a candle. Step down, step down.
Watch your heel crush, crushed, uh-oh, this means no
fear cavalier. Renegade steer clear! A tournament,
tournament, a tournament of lies. Offer me solutions,
offer me alternatives and I decline.
[Chorus] (x2)
*Palm mute on the 2nd chorus*
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
[Verse 3]
The other night I dreamt of knives, continental
drift divide. Mountains sit in a line, Leonard
Bernstein. Leonid Brezhnev, Lenny Bruce and Lester
Bangs. Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom! You
symbiotic, patriotic, slam book neck, right? Right.
[Chorus] (x2)
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
[End on D]
