Stab Yer Dad

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D G D E A

            D                                     G
Of the things that have made me, I count myself lucky
       E                             A
I consider it fortune, the things like how I wasn't
    D                              G
Taught at a young age to respect my elders 
  E                               A
Thank goodness for my absence of a father. 
  G                               E
He could have taken me out, we'd have gone camping 
  D                                         G               D
I could have learned to wield my body as a weapon 
  E                          A
These are things that I won't be missing

D G D E A

D                 G                             E 
I remember sittin' in the car with my dirty old man
    A                                  D
As he explained how she had asked for it 
                      G 
And how it was her fault 
             E                A
I'm only glad I didn't take the bait 
         G                E
Well, I remember telling my mother 
  D                        G        D       E
It was the last time I saw my father
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No regrets for what else I've been missing

   G
'Cause I'm not jealous of a well adjusted family, 
  Bm+                                                 E
Only killing time 'til they learn their anomaly 
                                                   A
Don't help the wounded ones: the children of the vengeful father 
  G                                                
When everyone I know is still standing in the shadows of
       Bm                                                   E        A   
The men who left their mark, I'd rather be left in the dark

D G D E A
           D            G                  E           A
If our fathers were our role models for God and they failed us,
     D                G                   E              A
What does that tell us about our supposed omnipotent savior?
                   G                      E
Except we're all born to fiction, daily recreated
             D                 G        D         E
We play the roles from the stories we learned as kids
                                        A 
Who bends down? Who plays God? Is it fated 
  D                        G                          D      E        
Every boy on this earth should have his head stuck up his ass? 
             A                   D              D   A     G  E       
We're all just like our dads, we keep learning the same shit again
                          A
And I wonder how long 'til it ends

       D                            G                           E 
Well I remember when my dirty old man told me how I'd grow up
          A                     D       G
To be just like him when I got old
             E                       A             D 
What a bizarre thing to be told, to be told