Riff1 ===== E ---0---------------| B ---1----3----3----0| G ---1----1----1----1| D --------2----2----2| A -------------------| E 0----0-----0---0---| Intro ===== verse 1 ======= Stumbling through small life nowhere England Shaking hands with the big town life idiots Riff1 I was trying to pick up some ordinariness From the shopping bag inspir-ational choir verse 2 ======= Sweeping through middle town A-merica Stepping into fact or fiction trash TV world Riff1 Caught a glimpse of myself scraping and laughing Shuffling about a-mongst the news-paper Amongst the news-paper a-mongst the news-paper Amongst the news-paper verse 3 ======= Cellophane wrapped processed lumps of meat Queueing up in the morning town traffic Riff1 Whilst smashing shop front girl a-ssistants into splinters With that new sledge-hammer in-difference verse 4 ======= Picking up a detail from a muscle magazine Whilst talking to someone else's wife Riff1 And wondering do I really care about sheet metal workers Saw you looking though your shop window re-flection Shop window re-flection shop window re-flection Shop window re-flection Verse 5 ======= Some run down amusement arcade humour Like cheap beer and instant coffee was pouring out Riff1 Over the city's pavements Calling closing time on that cinema queue fervour Verse 6 / Out ============= Thursday night on the railway lines As life and death burnt away in the distance and Riff1 A million TV screens close their weary eyes Don't you know me I know you I know you I know you I know you I know you I know you I know you I know you I know you (repeat to fade)