[Intro BPM 159 - Just bass drum - then repeat with full drums] [Bm][Bm][D][D/C#] - [Bm][Bm][D][D/C#] [G][G][F#][F#] - [E][E][D][D/C#] [Repeat]
[Verse - Full drums] [Bm] oha, watching the people get [D] larey, it's [E] not very pretty i [Bm] tell thee [Bm] walking through town is quite [D] scary and [E] not very sensible [Bm] either
[Bm] a friend of a friend he got [D] beaten, he [E] looked the wrong way at a po [Bm] lice man [Bm] would never have happened to [D] smeaton and [E] old leodensian
[Chorus - G to C bass run - A-23 D-0] [G] i predict a riot, .....[C]i predict a [G] riot [C*] [G] i predict a riot, .....[C]i predict a [G] riot [C*]
[Verse] [Bm] oha, i tried to get in my [D] taxi, [E] man in a tracksuit at [Bm] tacks me [Bm] he said that he saw it be [D] fore me, he [E] wants to get things a bit [Bm] gory
[Bm] girls run around with no [D] clothes on to [E] borrow a pound for a [Bm] condom [Bm] if wasn't for chip fat they'd be [D] frozen, they're [E] not very sensible
[Chorus] [G] i predict a riot, [C]i predict a [G] riot [C*] [G] i predict a riot, [C]i predict a [G] riot [C*] and if there's [C#] anybody left in [B] here who that [A] doesn't want to be out [G] there....(4 bars).............................
[Verse - No drums] [Bm] oha, watching the people get [D] larey, it's [E] not very pretty i [Bm] tell thee [Bm] walking through town is quite [D] scary and [E] not very sensible
[Chorus] [G] i predict a riot, [C]i predict a [G] riot [C*] [G] i predict a riot, [C]i predict a [G] riot [C*] and if there's [C#] anybody left in [B] here who that [A] doesn't want to be out [G] there [C] i predict a [G] riot, [C]i predict a [G] riot [C] i predict a [G] riot, [C]i predict a [G] riot [C] [G] [End]
[Intro - Capo 1 - BPM 158 - No drums - 2/4 feel - mandolin part - See (Intro Tab 1)] [G][G][G] ([G][Cadd9]) - [F][F][C/G][C/G]
[Verse 1 - No drums - just guitar as per intro] [C/G] I re [G]member ...... the sickness was forever [Cadd9]I re [F]member ..... snuff vide [C/G]os .....Cold Sep [G]tembers ... The distances we covered The fist fights [Cadd9]on the [F]beach The Bizzies round us [C/G] up ... Do it all again next [G]week ..... An embryonic love The first time [Cadd9]that it [F]scarred Embarrass yourself for [C/G]someone Crying like a [G]child .. And the boy who kicked Tom's head in Still [Cadd9]bugs me [F]now That's the thing it [C/G]lingers And claws you when you're [G]down
[Vamp - Drums in - See Chorus Tab2] [G][G][G] ([G][Cadd9]) - [F][F][C/G][C/G]
[Verse 2] I was [G]far too scared to hit him But I would hit him in a [Cadd9]heartbeat [F] now That's the thing with [C/G]anger It begs to stick a round [G] So it can fleece you of your beauty And leave you spent with [Cadd9]nowt to [F]offer you hurt the ones who [C/G]love you You hurt them like they're [G]nothing
[Chorus - See Chorus Tab 2] [G][G][G][G] (instrumental - lots of space) oh oo [Cadd9]wuh ah uh [F]oh ........ ah [C/G]oh........ You hurt them like they're [G] nothing [G] (instrumental - lots of space) oh oo [Cadd9]wuh ah uh [F]oh ........ ah [C/G]oh........
[Verse 3] [Spoken] [G] See I spent my teens enraged Spiral [Cadd9]ling in [F]silence And I armed myself with a [C/G]grin Cause I was always the fuckin' [G]joker [sung] [G]Buried in their humour Amongst the white [Cadd9]noise and [F]boys' boys Locker room talkin' [C/G]lads' lads Drenched in cheap drink and [G]snide fags A mirrored picture of my old man Oh God the [Cadd9]kid's a da [F] b hand Canny chanter, but he looks sad [C/G] God, the kid looks so[G] sad
[verse 4] [C/G] She said the [G]debt, the debt, the debt So I thought about shifting gear [Cadd9] And how she [F]wept and wept and wept [C/G]Luck came and died round here I see my [G]mother ... The DWP see a number She cries on the [Cadd9]floor en [F]cumbered I'm seventeen going [C/G]under I'm seventeen going [G]under
