Sucker For A Punch Line
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[Verse 1]
Bm
You, you’ll never be my
Bm
Friend, enemies til the
Em F#
End. Our names are birthed from sin,
Bm
Regret-filled and hell-sent.
Bm
Midnight rager to the morning light, against your will I’ll always
Bm
Fight, alcoholic wicked lights, and kamikaze stagedives
Em F#
My mind is full of toil, let my emotions roil
Bm F#
But there’s no fun in the likes of folks like you...
[Chorus]
F#
Cause I'm a sucker for a
Bm Em
Punch line, woah, but you
D
Never had a hook, there's a
Bm Gm
Fool born every minute if you
F#
Only knew where to look, I'm a sucker for a
Bm Em
Punch line, woah, but you
D
Always were the joke
Bm Em
Flatline emotions, you're the
F#
One that never spoke, woah
Bm
[Verse 2]
Bm
Between the robot rocks and anthems of the broken
Bm
I preach about the oldest emotions that have been spoken
Em F#
Cynical but dangerous, not paralyzed by anxious rust
Bm
And here they all are saying that I ain’t someone to trust
Bm
I am untouchable, though they say never say forever
Bm
I look outside my cage and I find I’m untethered
Em F#
I’ll grab the cords of my resolve, make damn sure that the reins are mine
Bm F#
No need to question, now don’t you move...
[Chorus]
F#
Cause I'm a sucker for a
Bm Em
Punch line, woah, but you
D
Never had a hook, there's a
Bm Gm
Fool born every minute if you
F#
Only knew where to look, I'm a sucker for a
Bm Em
Punch line, woah, but you
D
Always were the joke
Bm Em
Flatline emotions, you're the
F#
One that never spoke, woah
[Bridge]
Em
And though it's hard to look
Bm G
Away sometimes, I
F# G
Wonder if you've ever known at
F#
All
Em
Just how vicious I can
Bm G
Choose to be
F# Gdim
You can't escape me if you only
F#
Crawl
[Verse 3]
F#
Just one
Bm
Second, Thin Man, I hear you’re here to diss but you’d
Bm
Get better shit from shutting up, taking your fist and
Bm
Snapping rubber gloves on it for safety, I insist, then
Bm
Stick it up your ass until your throat decides to kiss it
Em
You’re a coward in a cage, a product of repression
F#
And all your spite pollutes this brain with overdone depression
Bm
It’s indefinite detention with no way out, you’ve been laid
F#
Out by the robot rock who won’t fade out
Bm
You like to think that we’ve entrapped you for attention
Bm
But you’ve taken six tracks without us, pure pretention
Bm
You’ve got all this aggression that’s directed all wrong, writing
Bm
Thong in the back of your exes ass crack songs, but this is
Em
My featurette, you’re the belle with no balls, I bet you’re
F#
Glad I never speak cause when Glitchtech calls, you
Bm
Learn your anger’s strong but no more so than mine
F#
Who are you now?
[Chorus]
F#
Cause I'm a sucker for a
Bm Em
Punch line, woah, but you
D
Never had a hook, there's a
Bm Gm
Fool born every minute if you
F#
Only knew where to look, I'm a sucker for a
Bm Em
Punch line, woah, but you
D
Always were the joke
Bm Em
Flatline emotions, you're the
F#
One that never spoke, woah
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What is the starting chord?
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