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Pretty Hair
Human Highway
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Pretty Hair
Human Highway
A
Your mother helped you move
D
Made your transition smooth
A
Your community was there
D B#min
The youthful faces, pretty hair
A D E
You were surrounded, by your peers
A
Then one day you saw it
D
You went home and tried to draw it
A
You couldn't get it quite right
D B#min
Its luminescence was so strangely bright
A D
Living in a fantasy
F# D A
Of toxicity (toxic-ly)
Dmin Amin E Amin
Dmin Amin F E
Amin Dmin E Amin
You're rubbing up against the veneer of disease
Dmin Amin E Amin
You didn't know, you didn't ask you know that its easy
Dmin Amin F E
But you don't care you like it that way Being taken by surprise
Amin Dmin E Amin
And narrowly narrowly narrowly Avoiding your demise
Amin Dmin Amin E Amin x2
C#
A F#
A year later, early one morning
D A C#
You woke up coughing you poor thing
A F#
Turned on the radio, but it wasn't active
D A C#
There was a blackout, it was radioactive
A C# X3
D
A
So your mother came to get you
D
Because that's what mothers do
A
Left your neighborhood in pieces
D B#min
Reduced to rubble and debris
A D E
Driving back to the suburbs in her SUV
A
Watched it on TV
D
In your fathers den of iniquity
A
And you changed the channel
D B#min
When you saw your old friend
A D E
It was burning pretty hair was melting off your skin
A