Sum 41
Underclass Hero
2007 Island/Aquarius Records
Submitted by: paramore_fans@yahoo.com
Tracklist:
01. Underclass Hero
02. Walking Disaster
03. Speak Of The Devil
04. Dear Father
05. Count Your Last Blessings
06. Ma Poubelle
07. March Of The Dogs
08. The Jester
09. With Me
10. Pull The Curtain
11. King Of Contradiction
12. Best Of Me
13. Confusion And Frustration In Modern Times
14. So Long Goodbye
15. Look At Me
Bonus Tracks:
16. No Apologies
17. This Is Goodbye
18. Take A Look At Yourself
19. Always
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1.) Underclass Hero
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- 022100
- x24442
- x46654
- x02220
1,2..
Well I won't be caught
living in a dead end job
While praying to my
government guns and god
Now it's us against them
We're here to represent
And spit right in the
face of the establishment
And now I don't believe
(In having faith in nothing!)
Stand on my own
(Got no sympathy!)
Wasting the youth
(While being young and useless!)
Speak for yourself
(And don't pray for me!)
Well Because we're doing fine
And we don't need to be told
That we're doing fine
Cause we won't give you control
And we don't need anything from you
Cause we'll be just fine
And we won't be bought
and sold Just like you
Interlude: Repeat Intro but twice only
A call across the Underclass
Calling out loud
with no respect
I'm not the one
just another reject
I'm the voice you affect
I'll lose and protect
I saw your up against the great
America we'll rise against
And now I'm desensitized
(I state my place in nowhere!)
Burning the flag
(Of the degeneration!)
Everyone sing
(The Anthem of no future!)
Down with the mass
(Cause we're not listening!)
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge:
May I have your attention please
I pledge allegiance to the
underclass as your hero at large
Bridge : - (x4),
Deryck Whibley's amazing lead Solo:
(Repeat Intro but only twice)
1..2..3..4
We're the saints
of degeneration
We don't owe anyone
an explanation
Fuck elitists
We don't need this
We're the elites
of disarray
(Repeat Chorus)
(Repeat Intro twice only)
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2.) Walking Disaster
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- x24442
- 244322
- 466444
- 022100 or 079997
- x46654
- x68876
I haven't been home for a while
I'm sure everything's the same
Mom and Dad both in denial
An only child to take the blame
Sorry, Mom, but I don't miss you
Father's no name you deserve
I'm just a kid with no ambitions
Wouldn't come home for the world
Refrain 1:
Never know what
I've become
The king of all that's
said and done
The forgotten son
This city's buried
in defeat
I walk along these
no name streets
Wave goodbye to all
(hold)-(hold)-(hold)
As I fall
Interlude: Beat switch to fast punk!!!
Guitar 2:
|-x--9-6-|-x--9-6-|--9--11-|-13--14-|
x2 x2
At the dead end I begin
To burn the bridge
of innocence
Satisfaction guaranteed
A pill away catastrophe
On a mission nowhere bound
Inhibitions underground
A shallow grave I
Have dug all by myself
Refrain 2:
And now I've been
gone for so long
I can't remember
who was wrong
All innocence
is long gone
I pledge allegiance to
(hold)
a world of disbelief
Where I belong
A walking disaster
The son of all bastards
You regret you made me
It's too late to save me
Post chorus:
(hold)
You regret you made me
It's too late to save me
Guitar 2:
|-x--9-6-|-x--9-6-|--9--11-|-13--14-|
x2 x2
As far as I can tell
It's just voices in my head
I talking to myself?
Cause I don't know
what I just said
(And she said)
Far is where I fell
Maybe I'm better off dead
I at the end of nowhere
Is this as good as it gets?
(Repeat Refrain 2 and Chorus)
Bridge:
To save me, to save me, to save me...
To save me, to save me, to save me...
(Repeat x4)
(hold)
To save me, to save me, to save me...
(Repeat Refrain 2 and chorus)
Guitar 2:
|-9--x-x-|-9--x-x-|-9--x-x-|-x-x-x-|
|-x--9-6-|-x--9-6-|-x--9-6-|-2-4-6-|
x2 x2 x2 x2
|-x--9-6-|-x--9-6-|--9--11-|-13--14-|
x2 x2
Beat switch back to slow
I will be home in a while
You don't have to say a word
I can't wait to see you smile
Wouldn't miss it for the world
(Repeat)
(hold)
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3.) Speak Of The Devil
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- 244322
- 143xxx
- x46664
- x68876
- x24442
- x143xx
- x13331
Trying to find a way
Getting better everyday
And I got you now
I'm not alone
All I need in
this life is one
One thing to believe in
I've seen many a face
From young and too old
I've stolen their faith and
I have broken their souls
Was here before Christ had
forgave you your sins
And paid your price and
sealed your fate within
Refrain 1:
Days have come to an end
Today's the day
that we meet again
The self-inflicted
inebriation
guilt never lies
Interlude: -- x2
I've been waiting for
the chance to reunite
this sick romance
Poison never hurt so good
So nice of you to speak of me
Your closest friend and enemy
And holy savior of masochists
Post Chorus 1:
Well it's the dead end slave
From the altar to the grave
It's the last days of our lives
x2
In faith amen
Time it's been so long
And now there's
nothing to say
I'm trying so hard to
find the words to say
I'm tired of being now
I'm something I'm not
I can't believe
and I never thought
Refrain 2:
Days would come to an end
Well maybe someday
we'll meet again
If ever that day never comes
It would be too soon My love
Interlude: -- x2
I've been waiting for the chance
to nullify this sick romance
Pull the chord to detonate
So sick of you don't speak of me
The reverend saint of misery
And holy savior of masochist
Post Chorus 2:
Well it's the dead end slave
From the altar to the grave
It's the last days of our lives
(Repeat)
In faith amen
Trying to find a way
Getting better everyday
And I got you now I'm not alone
All I need in this life is one
One thing to believe in
(Repeat)
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4.) Dear Father
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- x24442
- x143xx
- 466444
- 244322
- 022100
Address this letter to Dear Father
I know you as complete unknown
I guess it's better you don't bother
All our truths should be left alone
Be left alone
Be left alone
I learned the things
you never showed me
Took the chances
you'd have blown
And to this day
the one and only
You remain a
complete unknown
Complete unknown
Complete unknown
You're out there somewhere
I don't know if you care at all
It seems that you don't
It's as if the day will never come
So you remain a complete unknown
So many years have been ignored
You've been gone without a trace
I'm getting used to knowing you're
Just a name without a face
Without a face
Without a face
(Repeat Chorus twice)
Address this letter to Dear Father
I know you as complete unknown
I guess it's better you don't bother
All our truths should be left alone
(Repeat Chorus twice)
(hold)
You're out there somewhere
I don't know if you care
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5.) Count Your Last Blessings
Key:
Tuning: Standard eADGBe
Chords used:
- x24432
- x02220
- 022000
- 244322
- 320033
Piano: Until Verses
e|-14--15-17--14-|-14--15-17--14-|-14--14-17--15-|-12--14-15--14-|
Last call for regret and defeat
To finish the bottle full of empty dreams
Punch-drunk headed straight out of line
Another excuse with no alibi
Hitchin on the road of decline
With no name streets and no vital signs
I pissed away the best of me and
No one can help me!
Refrain:
Misery's best friend
Dead beat on a dead-end
A bag full of regrets
and I'm coming clean
The self-elect
Resident reject
A bad habit
Don't forget it you better
Count your last blessings
i fell off the wagon
i'm chasing six feet
And now I'm running out of time
(Repeat Intro)
My hands are tied
And nailed to the cross
I'm looking for all the composure I lost
I'm petulant with a bad attitude
poster-child vision of wasted youth
I dodged the book and found the key
I can't say the same for dignity
I pissed away the best of me and
No one can help me
(Repeat Refrain and chorus)
Interlude: - - -
Bridge:
My own enemy
I don't hear you now
Perfect tragedy
God bless us denial
My own enemy
I don't hear you now
Perfect tragedy
God bless us denial
(Repeat Chorus twice)
End on then Repeat Piano Intro twice
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6.) Ma Poubelle
Note: Sometimes the piano plays the chords in different octaves so
a or doesn't always have the same pitch throughout the song
even though its still the same basic chord.
Tu es ma mademoiselle
Tu es ma petite poubelle
Je chercherai des ordures pour toi
Je commencerai dedans mes pantalons
Dans votre oeil se truove une petite pleur
Mais je suis pas un autre Coeur
Tu sais tu es ma petite fleur
Avec une plotte qui est comme du beure
Tu es ma mademoiselle
Tu es ma petite poubelle *At the end here there actually
is A
playing these chords
Je chercherai des ordures pour toi as power chords
Je commencerai dedans mes pantalons
I saw a rough translation for this and its a really dirty song
but its funny as hell
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7.) March Of The Dogs
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- x24442
- x143xx
- 466444
- 244322
- 022100
- x02220
- 320033
- x46654
Part 1: (all the way)
Deryck Speaks:
-
Ladies and gentlemen
of the underclass
-
The president of the
United States of -merica
Is Dead!
I don't believe in the politics
Of chosen fools and hypocrites
Who walk a line that tread so fine
Is death or glory had in mind?
Refrain 1:
And here we go again
it's a mass delusion
No one knows
Who'll lead this
revolution now
As tension grows
The way to a conclusion
It's too late there's no time
(it's too late there's no time)
All for none none for
1, 2, 3, 4
March of the dogs
To a beat of disillusion
Sworn under God
Breeding panic and confusion
The white flag is down
Send in the clowns
The carnival of sins is
now going to begin
Interlude: Beat swhitch from Standard 4/4 to 3/4
It may be I'm a pessimist
But I say we need an exorcist
The root of all evil standing tall
Under God and above us all
Refrain 2:
And here we go again
in desperation
All we know is confusion
and frustration now
As tension grows no
vision of salvation
It's too late there's no time
(it's too late there's no time)
()
All for none none for 1, 2, 3, 4
(Repeat Chorus)
Post Chorus::
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
-one, two, three, four
Bridge:
And now the president's dead
Because they blew off his head
No more neck to be red
Yes to heaven he fled
Was it something he said
Because of who's in his bed
By who will we be led
From whose hand will we be fed
All the lies by the
lying liars who said
We'll be fine
It's OK
Hey look mom no head
F#/Abm
Blah Blah Blah Blah...
(It's the carnival of sins,
and a one two three go!
it's alright I said go!
one two three I say go!
It's ok, it's alright)
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8.) The Jester
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- x24432
- 244322
- 320033
- xx0232
- x476xx
- 022000
A jester of sorts you stand
holding your courts
Over minions on Capitol Hill
In a bath full of blood
I'm alone standing still
Under God you can fire at will
When the devil's angels come
To take your life and lead you
To the flamers beneath
Your headstone reads now
Here lies the dead who was
Hung by his head beneath us
They're laying in their graves
Damnation free for all
Interlude:
A prodigal son can't
undo what he's done
A figurehead of capitol crime
With a light shining down
As you fall to your kness
To repent would be nothing but lies
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge:
la la la La la la la
La la la la La la la la la
(Repeat)
Deryck's Lead Solo:
Cone's Bass: at 2nd time simultaneous to Deryck's lead solo
(hold)
Deadbeat 6 feet
dead underground
(hold)
An eye for an eye only
(hold)
leaves us all blind
Going once twice
there goes your life
(Repeat Chorus)
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9.) With Me
Dercyk wrote this song for his beautiful wife Avril Lavigne!!!
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- 022100
- x24442
- 466544
- x35553 or x32010
- x02220
Until Verses
I don't want this moment
to ever end
where everything's nothing
without you
I'd wait here forever just to
to see you smile
cause it's true
I am nothing without you
Guitar 2: At "I'd wait here forever..."
e|-12-|-11-|--9--|-7--|
Refrain 1:
through it all
I've made my mistakes
I stumble and fall
but I mean these words
I want you to know
with everything I
won't let this go
these words are my
heart and soul
I'll hold on to this
moment you know
cause I'd bleed my
heart out to show
that i won't let go
Interlude:
(Repeat Intro once)
thoughts read are spoken
forever and now
and pieces of memories
fall to the ground
I know that I didn't have so
I won't let this go
cause it's true
I am nothing without you
Refrain 2: Fast Palm mute
all the streets
where I walked alone
with nowhere to go
have come to an end
(Repeat Chorus)
Interlude:
Bridge:
in front of your eyes
it falls from the skies
when you don't know
what you're looking to find
(Repeat)
What will you find
What will you find
What will you find
What will you find
(Repeat Intro once)
I don't want this moment
to ever end
where everything's nothing
without you
(Repeat Chorus twice)
End on
Piano
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10.) Pull The Curtain
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- x24442
- x143xx
- 466444
- 244322
- 022100
- 365xxx
- 022000
- x46654
(Where'd I go wrong?)
Pull the curtain begin
paranoia's wearing thin now
It's wearing thin now
(Where'd I go wrong?)
Close my eyes realize I've
become the victimized now
Desensitized now
Refrain 1:
The one and only
day has come
I pay for all the
bad things I've done
(Where'd I go wrong?)
Something's wrong
because I find
the glamour in
the dark side
In the dark side
(Where'd I go wrong?)
Cheap regrets
can't forget
falling victim to
the debts still
Unpaid in my mind
(Repeat Refrain 1)
It's gonna take me you
don't know tragedy
I've been to hell and
back again to tell and
Close my eyes and lay
me down to sleep
I fear the worst my beating
heart ticks to explode
And my time is up so
Post Chorus: Dercyk Screams at lie
Why can't I just lie?
Bridge: b means bend
Bridge:
Living dead awake
the horror show begins
So pull the
curtains over me
Bring on the panic
The uncontrolled and manic
It's a free-for-all kill
them all every
last one of them
I don't care
(Repeat)
Refrain 2:
Suffocate the
dreams in my mind
(I can't stop believing)
Drown the thoughts
that have me confined
(Stop this heart
from bleeding)
Gutter dreams as
black as the night
(Mom and Dad disowned ya)
No one told me
empathy's a lie
(Lost in paranoia)
Refrain 3:
Suffocate the
dreams in my mind
(My last words I'm choking
are all my dreams broken?)
Drown the thoughts
that have me confined
(The silence is deafening
my ears won't stop ringing)
Gutter dreams as
black as the night
(My last words I'm choking
are all my dreams broken?)
No one told me
empathy's a lie
(The silence is deafening
(hold)
my ears won't stop ringing)
Same tune as their old song "We're All To Blame"
Now we're gone do you
still feel the same
way now? Can't you see?
I need help to
stop me from myself
Well can't
(hold)
you help me now?
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11.) King Of Contradiction
This song is obviously about the band's hatred to US Former President George Bush
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- 022000
- 355333
- x68886
- x13331
- 133211
- xx0232 or x57775
- x35543
- x032xx
- x254xx or x2x003
(feedback)
I've dethroned the
king of contradiction
or were you just a jester
all along a simple pawn
Don't you know you can't
count your tears and you
want to write it down flame
You don't need to pray for
me cuz I'm not the one to blame
I can't wait to see
you going down in flames
How could it be know
not what we've became
you lost the human race
Cone's Bass Solo:
I hope you burn like
a cigarette in ashes
as your head comes
down and crashes
your throat pours
blood from slashes
and I hope you never
forget like a
tattoo of regret
this time this time
You don't need to pray for
me cuz I'm not the one to blame
I can't wait to see
you going down in flames
How could it be know
not what we've became
you lost the human race
You're replaced now
Was nice to know you
Now your time is up so
(hold)
Just drop dead
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12.) Best Of Me
Best Of Me Chords by Sum 41
This song that Deryck wrote is written for her beautiful wife Avril Lavigne!!!
- - - - -
it's so hard to say that i'm sorry
i'll make everything alright
all these things that i've done
now what have i become?
and where'd i go wrong?
i don't mean to hurt just to put you first
i won't tell you lies [i'm sorry]
i will stand accused with my hand on my heart
i'm just trying to say...
I'm sorry
it's all that i can say
you mean so much
and i'd fix all that i've done
if i could start again
i'd throw it all away
to the shadows of regrets
and you would have the best of me
Interlude: - - - -
i know that i can't take back
all of the mistakes
but i will try
although it's not easy
i know you believe me
cause i would not lie
don't believe their lies
told through jealous eyes
they don't understand [i'm sorry]
i won't break your heart
i won't bring you down
but i will have to say...
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge:
- - -
- [ - ] <-- half timed
- -
(Repeat Chorus)
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13.) Confusion and Frustration In Modern Times
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- x24442
- 244322
- 466444
- 022100
Up in smoke pop goes the culture
The tension blew it up
We're choking from a bleeding ulcer
We eventually threw it out so
What went wrong? Where's
the voice of reason?
It's long gone we
lost it long ago
Apathy plus ice fill
the void of motivation
I can hardly breathe at all
Confusion's all I see
Frustration surrounds me
Solution bid farewell
Sedation what the hell?
I broke the mirror to the past
To find what I was looking for
The bleeding heart
of broken glass
Is all I found and
nothing more regrets
Short of no correction
Paid my debts to anxiety
The iron lung collapsed from
the pressure and the swelling
I can hardly breathe at all
(Repeat Chorus twice)
Bridge:
Dead-end roads
And warning signs
Destination nowhere
In sight
So
Divided we stand
Together we fall
There isn't a God
That can save us all
So don't pray on your knees
Just beg on your hands
There is no belief
In this promised land
Divided we stand
Together we fall
There's no God
That can save us all
So don't pray on your knees
Just, beg on your hands
There is no belief
In this promised land
There's no belief
(Repeat Chorus twice)
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14.) So Long Goodbye
Deryck wrote this song for the band's ex lead guitarist Dave Baksh!!!
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords Used:
As time passes by, direction unknown
You've left us now but we're not alone
Before you know it your cups overflown
You measured no one that I've ever known
And it's quite alright
And goodbye for now
Just look up to the stars
And believe who you are
Cause it's quite alright
And so long, goodbye
Interlude:
We always knew that it'd come to this
It's times like this i forget what i miss
Matters of art are hard to address
Especially when yours is full of emptiness
(Repeat Chorus)
Bridge:
-
(Repeat Verse 1 and Chorus)
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15.) Look At Me
submitted by: paramore_fans@yahoo.com
This is how Deryck Whibley plays!!!
Guitar 1:
|-12-12--12-12-12-|-11-11--11-11-11-
x2 x2
Guitar 1:
|-12-12--12-12-12-|-11-11--11-11-11-
x2 x2
Guitar 1:
x2
x2
Guitar 2:
x2
x2
Lyrics:
Chords used:
- x02220 or x-12-12-14-x-x
- 477xxx or x-11-14-14-x-x
- 244222 or x-9-11-11-x-x
- x24432
- 022100
Look at me
who am i supposed to be?
what do i believe?
can you tell me?
since you made up your mind
who knows what you believe
and i just don't know
no i just don't know
who i'm supposed to be
look at me
am i the image of
your hopes and tragedies
just look at me
will i ever be
more than just a memory?
cause you just don't know
no you just don't know
no you just don't know
all i am is me
all i am is me
all i am is me
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16.) No Apologies
Key:
Tuning: Drop
Chords used: for Drop
- 000xxx or 0577xx
- 777xxx or x022xx
- 999xxx or x244xx
- 555xxx
- x476xx
- 444xxx
Chords used: for Standard EADGBe
- xx0232
- x02220
- x24432
- 320033
- x476xx or x4222x
- 244222
I've heard it before
I'm straight out of line
The image of malice
With one evil mind
I've got no excuse
It's my alibi
A victim of fashion
Dressed to do or die
Refrain:
Don't worry about me
I'm not your misery
A reject no respect
(I don't I don't I don't)
I don't want to
be a conclusion
Victim of confusion
And I'll stay my own
place right here in nowhere
So here's my resignation
From the desperation
I'm the saint of hopeless
I make no apologies
Interlude: -- x2
Well this is a call
Throughout and across
The underdog nation
The hopeless and lost
Cause we're not the ones
To walk with the dead
Disciples of no one
By no one we're led
(Repeat Refrain and Chorus)
Bridge:
Na na na
Na na na
Na na na na
(I make no apologies)
(Repeat)
Deryck's Guitar Solo:
na na na
(Repeat x3)
(Repeat Chorus thrice)
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17.) This Is Goodbye
Key:
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
- 022100
- x24442
- x46654
- x02220
Take a look around you
consequence surrounds you
I would cross my heart
and hope to die
You should thank your lucky
stars and count your
fading scars cause
No one said you
had to live a lie
Refrain:
Too late my friend it's
over Memories broken
Nice to know ya guess
that means this is goodbye
Days will come and go by
you will never know why
You're the victim
of your own denial
You took the vow
of contradiction
bound by lies and fiction
Holding on to nothing
all the while
(Repeat Refrain except the phrase "this is goodbye")
This is goodbye
Thi