"Italy" 


G                       D 
So there we were in the heart 
      C                               G 
Where everything that we know got its start 
C                 D 
Then it all fell apart 
       G                     C 
Well I guess that's what you get 
         C                   G 
When you spread yourself too thin 


           G              D 
But we had bigger fish to fry 
     C                  G 
Like findin' a place to sleep at night 
  C                 D 
I bought a slice of pizza 
        G                 C 
Just to try and kill some time 
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And for a minute everything was fine 


         G             D 
We had a number in our notebook 
           C               G  
But it was way too late to call 
       C          D 
It was well after midnight 
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When our train passed through the city walls 
          C         D       G 
We didn't know this girl at all 


   G              D  
So we got out our travel book 
   C              G 
To read about the neighborhood 
C                   G 
Said it wasn't very good 
       G               C 
But it felt alright to me 
      C         G            D 
All I wanted to do was go to sleep 


      D                 G 
So we walked around the corner 
       C 
And we found a cheap motel 
   D                G 
We knew we couldn't afford it 
       C 
But we said, "Oh well" 


                 C                G   
When you've been on the train all day 
         C                 G            
In a big city in a new country 
            C              G 
You're real tired and it's late 
               C              G 
Sometimes it's better just to pay 


           D 
That's the way it goes 
D 
Sometimes you know 
D 
It'd be okay 
D         C      D       G 
And after all we were in Rome 


     G                  D 
Well it had been a long time 
      C              G 
Since we had slept inside 
   C                D 
We woke up late the next day 
        G               C 
And the sun was shining bright 
   C                  D                G 
We paid our bill, we cried, we went outside 


         G                   D 
Now they got their bread and circus 
            C     G 
And I guess so do we 
    C                   D 
But they got theirs for free 
             G                  C 
I think that we're bein' ripped off 
          C           D            G 
We must destroy all empires at any cost 


            G             D 
When you're standin' in a temple 
               C               G 
Of a long-gone God it seems so simple 
C         D        G              C     
Everybody dies, no matter who you are 
          C                     D            G 
From far enough away our sun is just another star 


        G               D 
And the statue of Moses that we saw 
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Had horns on his head and was eight feet tall 
C                  D 
Maybe that was the case, 
        G                C 
No it's not our place to say 
C                 D               G 
Maybe some things just don't translate 


D                 G  
We called up this girl 
        C          G 
Who had ordered a CD 
            D             G 
She was the first from Italy 
       D              G 
And we asked for hospitality 
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She said we could stay at her parents' place 


     C                G 
They were so sweet to us 
          C              G 
It was so nice to meet a punk 
              D 
She took good care of you and me 
D 
She bought us soy ice cream 
D 
Her mom cooked dinner every night 
          C        D     G 
It was so hard for us to leave 


G                        D 
And the stray dogs of Pompey 
C                    G 
Were our guides that day 
C 
They became our friends, 
D 
We were a lot like them 
     G              C 
They taught us many things 
C                            D              G 
And all they wanted was some food for their pay 


G                   D 
Then we went to the coast 
          C                  G 
Where the roads are wound so close 
        C                 D 
And the buses bounce from side-to-side 
   G                     C 
We thought that we might die 
C                           D                 G 
We couldn't find a place to sleep at all that night 


D                    G 
The city filled with scooters 
        C          G 
Held so many mysteries 
  D                G 
I saw the weirdest thing there 
       D               G 
That I think I'll ever see 
         C                 G 
It was a pizza topped with octopus, 
  C                 G 
A whole arm on each slice 


C                   G 
But I got my dinner there 
         C                 G 
It was a pizza topped with fries 
    D 
And Italy was nice 
D 
Made us feel right at home 
D 
Our money's in the fountain 
       C      D       G 
And we will return to Rome