Chalkdust Torture

	  		
Verse   
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Come stumble my mirth beaten worker 
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I’m Jezmund the family berzerker 
      E                         A  
I’m bought for the price of a flagon of rice 
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The wind buffs the cabin You speak of your life 
                  E            A  
Or more willingly Locust the Lurker 

Verse   
  E                           A   
Confuse what you can of the ending 
       E                       A  
And revise your despise so impending 
          E                                      A  
‘Cause I soak on the wrath That you didn’t quite mask 
      E                                   A  
I’m getting it clearly through alternate paths 
      E                               A  
Or mixed in with the signal you’re sending 


 G                           A        
But who can unlearn all the facts that I’ve learned 
      G                         E 
As I sat in their chairs and my synapses burned 
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And the torture of chalk dust collects on my tongue 
      G                        A  
Thoughts follow my vision and dance in the sun 
       G                           A  
All my vasoconstrictors they come slowly undone 
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Can’t this wait ’til I’m old 
E            A  
Can’t I live while I’m young? 


Verse 
         E                  A 
But no peace for Jezmund tonight 
    E                        A 
I plug the distress tube up tight 
    E                         A 
And watch what I say as it flutters away 
    E                                     A 
And all this emotion is kept harmless at bay 
E                          A 
Not to educate somebody’s fright