The Emperors New Clothes

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We bet on our lives and we bet on the horses 
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In that upstairs apartment 
C 
On Orlando and 4th 
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And the rent was due and the rent man was knocking 
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Like a Chinese proverb 
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We were always searching 
 
C C/E 
Nightlife‘s a no-win but nobody noticed 
F 
How we killed off the bottles 
C 
Looking good on the surface 
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The dog days barked and the house cat got old 
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We were Bonnie and Clyde 
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In the emperor‘s new clothes 
 
F 
And the tears never came 
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They just stayed in our eyes 
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We refused to admit that we wore this disguise 
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Every inch of us growing 
Bb6 
Like Pinocchio‘s nose 
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As we walked around in the emperor‘s new clothes 
 
 
We flew by our wits and by the seat of our pants 
In the state of illusion 
In the nation of chance 
And the repo was hauling the wreck we‘d been driving 
As the dashboard Madonna 
Smiled back at us kindly 
 
We cheated the system never batting an eyelid 
Seeing only the good 
Through the holes in our shoes 
And our halos were rusty but we wore them proudly 
We were two little gods 
In the emperor‘s new clothes 
 
F 
And the tears never came 
F/A G/B 
They just stayed in our eyes 
F/C C C/B 
We refused to admit that we wore this disguise 
F 
Every inch of us growing 
Bb6 
Like Pinocchio‘s nose 
A+ A Dm C/E F G Bb F/A Fm7/Ab C/G 
As we walked around in the emperor‘s new clothes 
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emperor‘s new clothes 
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emperor‘s new clothes 
 
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