**Intro:**
[D5]
I see faces and traces of home,

Back in New York City

[D] [D] [D6] [D6]
[C5/D] [C5/D] [Gmaj7/D] [Gmaj7/D]

**Verse 1:**
       [D]                      [D6]
So you think I'm a tough kid?
   [C5/D]                [Gmaj7/D]
Is that what you heard
       [D]                       [D6]
Well I like to see some action
       [C5/D]               [Gmaj7/D]
And it gets into my blood
    [D]
Oh, let me out of Pontiac
           [D6]
When I was just seventeen
  [C5/D]
I had to get it out of me
       [Gmaj7/D]
If you know what I mean, what I mean.

**Instrumental 1:**
[D5] [D5] [D5] [D5]
[D5] [D5] [D5] [D5]
[D5] [D5]

**Verse 2:**
[D]                  [D6]
Ah, you say I must be crazy
[C5/D]                        [Gmaj7/D]
'Cause I don't care who I hit, who I hit
      [D]                               [D6]
'Cause I know it's me that's hitting out
    [C5/D]            [Gmaj7/D]
And I'm not full of shit
[D]
Down by my bottle
          [D6]
Filled up high with gasoline
        [C5/D]
You can tell by the night fires
      [Gmaj7/D]
Where Rael has been, has been

**Instrumental 2:**
[D5] [D5] [D5] [D5]

**Chorus 1:**
[Doct] [Dsus2] [Dm]    [Dsus2] [D] [D5]
As     I       cuddled the      por-cu-pine
[Doct] [Dsus2] [Dm] [Dsus2] [D] [D5]      [Doct]
He     said    I    had      none to   blame, but me
[Doct] [Dsus2] [Dm]  [Dsus2] [D] [D5]
Held   my      heart, deep    in  hair
[Doct] [Dsus2] [Dm]   [Dsus2] [D(7)] [D5]
Time   to      shave, shave   it     off, it off
[D5]
No time for romantic escape,
         [D(b6)]
When your filthy heart is ready for rape. No
[D5]
No time for romantic escape,
         [D(b6)]
When your filthy heart is ready for rape.
[D] [E/D] [A/D]    [D] [E/D] [A/D]   [D] [E/D] [A/D]
Off we    go,      off we    go      off we    go

**Verse 3:**
     [D]
You're sitting in your comfort
    [D6]
You don't believe I'm real
        [C5/D]
Well you cannot buy protection
        [Gmaj7/D]
For the way that I feel
[D]
Your progressive hypocrites
[D6]
Hand out their trash
       [C5/D]
It was mine in the first place
        [Gmaj7/D]
So I'll burn it to ash.

**Verse 4:**
         [D]
And I've taken all the strongest meats
    [D6]
And laid them down in coloured sheets
[C5/D]      [Gmaj7/D]
Laid them down in coloured sheets
[D]
Who needs illusion
   [D6]
Of love and affection
          [C5/D]
When you're out walking in the streets
         [Gmaj7/D]
Your mainline connection, connection.

**Chorus 2:**
[Doct] [Dsus2] [Dm]    [Dsus2] [D] [D5]
As     I       cuddled the      por-cu-pine
[Doct] [Dsus2] [Dm] [Dsus2] [D] [D5]      [Doct]
He     said    I    had      none to   blame, but me
[Doct] [Dsus2] [Dm]  [Dsus2] [D] [D5]
Held   my      heart, deep    in  hair
[Doct] [Dsus2] [Dm]   [Dsus2] [D(7)] [D5]
Time   to      shave, shave   it     off, it off
[D5]
No time for romantic escape,
         [D(b6)]
When your filthy heart is ready for rape. No
[D5]
No time for romantic escape,
         [D(b6)]
When your filthy heart is ready for rape.
[D5]
No time for romantic escape,
         [D(b6)]
When your filthy heart is ready for rape. No
[D5]
No time for romantic escape,
         [D(b6)]
When your filthy heart is ready for rape.

No time.

Back in New York City

**Coda:**
[D5] [D5] [D5] [D5]