Inmates (We're All Crazy)

Words and music by Alice Cooper, Bernie Taupin, and Dick Wagner
From the album From The Inside (1979)
Transcribed by Brian Gaddis

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  1. "It's not like we did something wrong, we just burned down the church
      while the choir within sang religious songs. And it's not like we thought
      we was right, we just played with the wheels of the passenger train that

    "cracked on the tracks one night.     It's not like we ain't on the ball."
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    "We just talk to our shrinks, huh, they talk to their shrinks. No wonder
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    "we're up the wall.                And we're not stupid or dumb. We're the
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    "lunatic fringe who rusted the hinge on Uncle Sam's daughters and sons."
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  Pre-chorus: "Good old boys and girls congregating, waiting in another world."

    "With roller coaster brains.        Imagine playing with trains."
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    "Good old boys and girls congregating, waiting in some other world."

  Chorus
    "We're all crazy. We're all crazy. We're all crazy."

    "Lizzy Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks."


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   2. "And don't think we're trying to be bad (No!) Those innocent crimes
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    "seemed all right at the time, not necessarily mad. (Not necessarily mad.)
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    "We watch everyday for the bus and the driver would say, "That's where
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    "lunatics stay." I wonder if he's talking about us?
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    "It's not like we're vicious or gone, (No!) we just dug up the graves

    "where your relatives lay       in old Forest Lawn.        And it's not
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    "like we don't know the score. We're the fragile elite  they dragged off
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    "the street.   I guess they just  couldn't take us no more."
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  Pre-chorus: "Good old boys and girls congregating, waiting in another world.

    "With roller coaster brains.        Imagine digging up graves.
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    "Good old boys and girls congregating, waiting in some other world."


  Chorus
    "We're all crazy. We're all crazy. We're all crazy."
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    "We're all crazy. We're all crazy. We're all crazy."
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    "We're all crazy. We're all crazy. We're all crazy."
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    "We're all crazy.   We're all crazy.   We're all crazy."
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    "We're all crazy.   We're all crazy.   We're all crazy."
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    "We're all crazy.   We're all crazy.   We're all crazy."
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