Random Rules

C     Em       F                                C 
In 1984, I was hospitalized for approaching perfection 
C                Em                  F                        C 
Slowly screwing my way across Europe, they had to make a correction 
C            Em                         F                           C 
Broken and smokin' where the infrared deer plunge in the digital snake 
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I tell you, they make it so you can't shake hands when they make your hands shake 



Dm                F 
I know you like to line dance 
Dm             F 
Everything so democratic and cool 
Dm                 F                 C 
But, baby, there's no guidance when random rules 


 
C              Em                         F                        C 
I know that a lot of what I say has been lifted off of men's room walls 
C            Em                        F                           C 
Maybe I've crossed the wrong rivers and walked down all the wrong halls 
C                 Em                     F               C 
But nothing can change the fact that we used to share a bed 
C                   Em                   F                 C 
And that's why it scared me so when you turned to me and said: 



Dm                  F 
"Yeah, you look like someone 
Dm                    F 
Yeah, you look like someone who up and left me low 
Dm                F           C 
Boy, you look like someone I used to know" 

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B|-8/6--6/5--5/3--3/1-0-1---1---3-1------------------------------| 
G|-9/7--7/5--5/4--4/2---------------0----------------------------| 
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D|-----0h2p0----2--2---------0h2p0---0---------------------------| 
A|-0h3-------3----------0h3--------------3-----------------------| 
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   C                 Em                  F              C 
e|-------------------------------------------------------------0---3-0-----0-----------------| 
B|-----------------------------------------------------0-1-0-3---3-----1/3---3-1-------------| 
G|-------------------------------------0----4b5--0-0-2---------------------------------------| 
D|------0h2p0-2-2-2-2-0---0h2--2-----2---2---------------------------------------------------| 
A|-0h3------------------3--------------------------------------------------------------------| 
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Dm                  F 
I know you'd like to line dance 
Dm                  F 
With everything so democratic and cool 
Dm                 F                 C 
But, baby, there's no guidance when random rules 


 
C            Em              F                  C 
I asked the painter why the roads are colored black 
C                        Em 
He said, "Steve, it's because people leave 
         F                      C 
And no highway will bring them back" 
C              Em              F             C 
So if you don't want me, I promise not to linger 
C                      Em                              F              C 
But before I go, I've gotta ask you, dear, about that tan line on your ring finger 


Outro 
Dm                F 
No one should have two lives 
Dm                 F 
Now you know my middle names are Wrong and Right 
Dm                  F            C 
Honey, we've got two lives to give tonight 
C 
To give tonight 
C 
To give tonight 
C                C 
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh