Cardiacs – The Icing On The World (Guitar)

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[Intro] Db [Verse 1]
Db                 F           Db         G          Db
When is it good or not good to perceive a petrifying life

Db    F         Db             G              A
Or to solving a problem that's here tomorrow, gone today

Dm             G              F                   G        Dm
"I am a worthy subject," says one person catching somebody out

Dm                G          F                   G        F
"And I'm tired of all that I am doing now," says somebody else
[Refrain] F Db Ab C C E E E E E E E [Verse 2]
Db                 F           Db        G                  Db
Not to reason why, ours is but to do and die, says you says I

Db        F           Db             G           A
Yes, it's starting to show, but it's already pie in the sky

Dm            G          F               G        Dm
No reason if adapted for ordinary use in everyday lives

Dm                      G           F                    G         F
There's a clause that's not written down, we assume it's just a disguise
[Chorus]
Db           B           A                   G          Eb Bb Eb E E D
Look, I know everything, knowledge forms the best of me

Db                   A                               B
After all I've done, don't blame me, no, not all the time

      Bb        Am     D     D D C Bb Bb
I put the icing on the world
[Verse 3]
Db                     F         Db            G                 Db
Something is wrong, so how is it now? Is there something on your mind?

Db          F          Db         G                   A
Or are your problems deleting the course that was set in your mind?

Dm                     G           F                   G           Dm
Now we are calm, don't tell me you are living now what you lived before

Dm                G          F                G           F
There's a will in everyone's mind to exude an air of some kind
[Refrain] F Db Ab C C E E E E E E E [Verse 4]
Db                         F           Db              G                Db
Think back some years, the age of ten, that's not you, that was someone else

Db        F               Db         G              A
Different thoughts and surroundings, just memories exist today

Dm                 G           F               G          Dm
When is it good? Tomorrow? The day after? Is living but a farce?

Dm                  G         F                         G             F
There must be truth in what I say seeing as how the sun shines out my arse
[Chorus]
Db             B         A                G     Eb Bb Eb E E D
Dull seems the evergreen style of all our unity

Db                    A                             B            Bb
And over the fence an old mother's sympathy makes a spectacle of life

Bb          Am      D    D D C
All for the sake of love
[Interlude] Bb Bb Ab Gb (x2) [Chorus]
Db           B           A                   G          Eb Bb Eb E E D
Look, I know everything, knowledge forms the best of me

Db                   A                               B
After all I've done, don't blame me, no, not all the time

      Bb        Am     D     D D C Bb Ab
I put the icing on the world
[Chorus]
Db           B           A                   G          Eb Bb Eb E E D
Look, I know everything, knowledge forms the best of me

Db                   A                               B
After all I've done, don't blame me, no, not all the time

      Bb        Am     D
I put the icing on the world