Dan Warren - Clockwork Family

      [Intro]
A F#m Bm E

[Verse]
A                            F#m
I ate the paste 'cause I was hungry
Bm                         E
I cried and ran out of the room
A                           F#m
My mum and dad, they surely love me
Bm                  E             A
But we don't always have a lot of food
                           F#m
And all the other kids are assholes
Bm                            E
Making fun of my hand-me-down jeans
A                        F#m
Life would be a lot less hassle
                Bm                      E           A
If I could just replace these pointless people with machines

[Chorus]
D                        A
The perfect ticking of a clockwork family
D                           A
Everything happens right on time
D                   A
Perfect rhythm of a life that can be
E
Counted on to finally work out fine
E                          A
So much more reliably than mine

[Verse]
A                      F#m
My uncle Tim is now in prison
      Bm                       E
After seven years of being unemployed
           A                 F#m
That would never happen to a robot
              Bm            E               A
They can only break or be repaired or be destroyed
A                              F#m
And they don't pass out on the sofa
Bm                        E
Buried in a pile of empty beers
A                          F#m
The absolute perfection of avuncular affection
     Bm           E               A
In a shiny little box of spinning gears

[Chorus]
D                        A
The perfect ticking of a clockwork family
D                           A
Everything happens right on time
D                   A
Perfect rhythm of a life that can be
E
Counted on to finally work out fine
E                          A
So much more reliably than mine

[Interlude]
A F#m Bm E (x4)

A (hold for 4 bars)

[Verse]
A                     F#m
There's dirt in every corner
Bm                    E
There's a sofa in the yard
A                        F#m
And everything is out of order
Bm           E            A
Life is unpredictable and hard
A                              F#m
But there is peace out on the highway
Bm                                E
In the soft hissing rush of the machines
A                F#m
Quietly gliding, never quite colliding
     Bm             E         A
Only fractions of a second in between

[Chorus]
D                        A
The perfect ticking of a clockwork family
D                           A
Everything happens right on time
D                   A
Perfect rhythm of a life that can be
E
Counted on to finally work out fine
E                          A
So much more reliably than mine