Bobby And The Rat-Kings

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[Verse 1]
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I'm an elevator kid pushing buttons when I wanna go home
    Bb                   F                      C  G  C
But my generation hasn't even got a name of its own
        Am              Bbsus2
We just buy what the TV sells
           F                          Bbsus2
And almost never stop wishing we were somebody else
      Gm                      Am
But tonight in the dark I can be myself


[Chorus]
     C                 Am    Em
When Bobby and the Rat-Kings come to play
      F                    G
We'll make 'em stay, we'll make 'em play
C                   Am  Em
Play 'til the stars all fade
      F                  G
We'll make 'em stay 'til dawn
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Make 'em play all night 'til the light like we'vе never seen nothin'
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Like wе'll never see anybody ever again
             Am    Em
When the Rat-Kings go away
      F            G
We'll never be the same


[Verse 2]
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Z tried to edit Reddit, instead it said it had eaten her phone
              Bb                          F                            C  G  C
She goes from tinder to cinder 'til she remembers she's a flame of her own
        Am               Bbsus2
You can almost lose your heart
  F                                 Bbsus2
Hoping for something better 'til it tears you apart
          Gm                       Am
While the days get longer and this night won't start


[Chorus]
         C                 Am    Em
But when Bobby and the Rat-Kings come to play
      F                    G
We'll make 'em stay, we'll make 'em play
C                   Am  Em
Play 'til the stars all fade
      F                  G
We'll make 'em stay 'til dawn
         C                       Am                          F
Make 'em play all night 'til the light like we'vе never seen nothin'
                     G             C
Like wе'll never see anybody ever again
             Am    Em
When the Rat-Kings go away
      F            G     C   G  F
We'll never be the same again
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Oh, again


[Verse 3]
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Now Joey's gotta run for the train
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Says he's trying to make it back to the city by ten
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And Mike's on his bike with the motor running
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I told him trains were running all night right then
       C                      Am
In the moonlit town after the bridge fell down
           F                      G
There were fires and we lost some power
      C                            Am
So we all dressed up for the ramble
                      F                      G
And ran those streets long past the witching hour


[Bridge]
      Am         Bb
I saw Dorothy in drag
           F             Bb
Taking the Tin Man for a ride
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And then Z the Cat said she knew where to go
         Am                  Bb
Then she kissed me without a thought
                F                        Bb
Said "Sometimes memories are all that we got
                Gm          Bb          C
So come on, boy, let's make some at the show"


[Verse 4]
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So there's some leather-wrapped Fender-strapped kid with a pick-finger twitch
           Bb                  F                  C    G  C
He's got a recipe for radio or rain, I don't know which
       Am                          Bbsus2
In the shadows when the lights are dowsed
    F                            Bbsus2
The cinder kids flare while they twist and shout
           Gm                        Am
We're the sparks in the dark that'll never go out


[Chorus]
        C                 Am    Em
So when Bobby and the Rat-Kings come to play
      F                    G
We'll make 'em stay, we'll make 'em play
C                   Am  Em
Play 'til the stars all fade
      F                  G
We'll make 'em stay 'til dawn
         C                       Am                          F
Make 'em play all night 'til the light like we'vе never seen nothin'
                     G             C
Like wе'll never see anybody ever again
             Am    Em
When the Rat-Kings go away
      F            G
We'll never be the same again


[Post-Chorus]
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So say hey, when the Rat-Kings
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 When the Rat-Kings, when the Rat-Kings go away
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Say hey, when the Rat-Kings
Am                   Em                 G
 When the Rat-Kings, when the Rat-Kings go away
    C                  Am
Say when the Rat-Kings go (When the Rat-Kings go)
F             G
When they go away (When they go away)
    C                 Am    Em
Say hey, when the Rat-Kings go away
      F            G     C   G  F  G
We'll never be the same again


[Outro]
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Again
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Oh, again
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Oh, again
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Again