Amused As Hell

Cathal Coughlan's The Sky's Awful Blue

Released in 2002 by Beneath Music

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INTRO (x2)
Fmaj7 
 
Em7 
VERSE 1
Fmaj7 
Get wet, get hard, it’s  
Em7 
Tuesday
Fmaj7 
Show the world you  
Em7 
care
Fmaj7 
Trivial 
 
so
Em7 
lutions
Fmaj7 
In trivial af
Em7 
fairs
Fmaj7 
Tonight there is a  
Em7 
party
Fmaj7 
For a perfume called “De
Em7 
spair”
Dm7 
There’s been a revo
Em7 
lution
F 
In women’s under
Em7 
wear
 
Am 
Now there’s a purchase to smoothe every frown
E7 
Trucks packed with catalogues yawn into town
Am 
Billboards and flat screens announce all is well
 
The  
E7 
peak of our history  
Bb 
united, 
 
as
A 
sured
 
Amused as  
Dm 
hell 
 
 
C 
 
Dm7 
 
Dm 
 
C 
 
Dm7 
 
Dm 
 
C 
 
Dm7 
 
Amused as  
Dm 
hell 
 
 
C 
 
Dm7 
 
Dm 
 
C 
 
Bb 
VERSE 2
Fmaj7 
The torsos keep gy
Em7 
rating
Fmaj7 
All tattooed, oiled and  
Em7 
waxed
Fmaj7 
There’s been a revo
Em7 
lution
Fmaj7 
Paradise is  
Em7 
fact
Fmaj7 
Do they fuck as well as  
Em7 
fake 
 
it?
Fmaj7 
Well, you only need to  
Em7 
ask
Dm7 
Ah, such a lot of  
Em7 
fucking
F 
More than ever in the  
Em7 
past
 
Am 
Cut to a famine, a drought or a war
 
Need a  
E7 
break in the fun so the wine can be poured
 
The  
Am 
ghost of last Christmas now plays William Tell on the  
E7 
head of your firstborn
Bb 
But you should still be  
A 
amused as  
Dm 
hell 
 
 
C 
 
Dm7 
 
Dm 
 
C 
 
Dm7 
 
Amused as  
Dm 
hell 
 
 
C 
 
Dm7 
 
Dm 
 
C 
 
Dm7 
INTERLUDE
Bb 
Novelty is  
Gm 
endless
 
And  
Bb 
nothing’s ever  
Dm 
new
Bb 
But this is no for
Dm 
ever
 
Just a  
Dm 
thing that planes fly  
Cm 
through 
 
 
Dm 
 
Eb 
 
C 
VERSE 3
F 
Here on the bypass, the loose bottom rung
 
Where  
E7 
flopsongs are written, where dayjobs are done
 
The  
F 
non-sovereign nations, in thousands, in ones
 
No  
E7 
land and no laws, from their black-spotted lungs
 
They  
F 
roar out to curse you and spit in your face
 
They are  
E7 
not being ironic; I think we should make
 
A  
F 
benefit concert, a swell carousel
 
Where the  
E7 
stars dry-hump livestock,  
Bb 
and you can all  
Asus4 
be
 
Amused as  
Dm7 
hell
 
Amused as  
Dm7 
hell 
 
 
C 
 
A
Bb 
mused as hell
OUTRO/FADE
Dm 
Grand 
 
 
C 
Necro
Dm7 
politan
Dm 
Grand 
 
 
C 
Necro
Dm7 
politan
Dm 
De
C 
sire 
 
out
Dm7 
strips 
 
demand
Dm 
Don’t 
 
 
C 
bomb 
 
Vi
Dm7 
agrastan
Dm 
Grand 
 
 
C 
Necro
Dm7 
politan
Dm 
Grand 
 
 
C 
Necro
Dm7 
politan
Dm 
De
C 
sire 
 
out
Dm7 
strips 
 
demand
Dm 
Don’t 
 
 
C 
bomb 
 
Vi
Dm7 
agrastan