Amused As Hell by Cathal Coughlan
From Cathal Coughlan’s 2002 The Sky’s Awful Blue album. Written by Cathal Coughlan. No capo.
INTRO
[Am7] [G6] (x2)
VERSE 1
[Am7] Get wet, get hard, it’s [G] Tuesday
[Am7] Show the world you [G6] care
[Am7] Trivial so [G6] lutions
[Am7] In trivial af [G6] fairs
VERSE 2
[Am7] Tonight there is a [G] party
[Am7] For a perfume called ‘De [G6] spair’
[Am7] There’s been a revo [Em7] lution
[Fmaj7] In women’s under [Em7] wear
[Am7] Now there’s a purchase to smoothe every frown
[E7] Trucks packed with catalogues yawn into town
[Am7] Billboards and flat screens announce all is well
The [E7] peak of our history
[Bb6] United, as [Asus2] sured
Amused as [Dm7] hell
Amused as [Dm7] hell [Bb6]
VERSE 3
[Am7] The torsos keep gy [G6] rating
[Am7] All tattoo’d oiled and [G6] waxed
[Am7] There’s been a revo [G6] lution
[Am7] Paradise is [G6] fact
VERSE 4
[Am7] Do they fuck as well as [G6] fake it?
[Am7] Well, you only need to [G6] ask
[Dm7] Ah, such a lot of [Em7] fucking
[Fmaj7] More than ever in the [Em7] past
[Am7] Cut to a famine, a drought or a war
Need a [E7] break in the fun so the wine can be poured
The [Am7] ghost of last Christmas now plays William Tell on the [E7] head of your firstborn
[Bb6] But you should still [Asus2] be amused as [Dm7] hell
Amused as [Dm7] hell
BRIDGE
[Bb6] Novelty is [Dm7] endless
And [Bb6] nothing’s ever [Dm7] new
[Bb6] But this is no for [Gm7] ever
Just a [Dm] thing that planes fly [Cm] through [Dm] [Eb] [D7] [C]
VERSE 5
[Am7] Here on the bypass, the loose bottom rung
Where [E7] flopsongs are written, where dayjobs are done
The [Am7] non-sovereign nations, in thousands, in ones
No [E7] land and no laws, from their [Em7] black-spotted lungs
They [Fmaj7] roar out to curse you and spit in your face
They are [Dm6] not being ironic; I think we should make
A [Am7] benefit concert, a swell carousel
Where the [E7] stars dry-hump livesto [Bb6] ck
And you can all be [Asus2]
Amused as [Dm7] hell
A [Dm7] mused as hell
A [Dm7] mused as hell
FADE
[Dm7] Grand Necropolitan
[Dm7] Grand Necropolitan
[Dm7] Desire outstrips demand
[Dm7] Don’t bomb Viagrastan
[Dm7] Grand Necropolitan
[Dm7] Grand Necropolitan
[Dm7] Desire outstrips demand
[Dm7] Don’t bomb Viagrastan