Intro
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Verse 1
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Perceived safety in your neighbourhood 
         C# 
Did you ever really have it? Was it ever that good? 
              A#m 
'Cause there's a s*x offender living 'round the block 
   A#m 
Always standing at the window with his hand on his cock 
          F# 
And I'll find it hard to see 
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How I'd raise my family in this place 
                                     (rest for a count of four) 
 
Verse 2
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Lad on the corner wearing bumbag and shorts 
        C# 
Probably gets his information from the Buzzfeed reports 
           A#m 
He swore at Centrelink when he was a teen 
         A#m 
Cooked his head from all the footy and amphetamine 
          F# 
And I'll find it hard to see 
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How I'll raise my family in this place 
 
Pre-Chorus
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  I'm scared of noises in my yard, shut the gate don't come near me 
                     G# 
It's a sick and sad world but I wanna see clearly 
                     F#                        F#m 
Turn my sensor light on, I'm scared of the dark 
                                                   (rest for count of four) 
 
Chorus
    F#       F            G#       F 
Our neighbourhood is full of sketchy places 
  F#        F            G# 
Creepy faces and crackheads (Our neighbourhood) 
  F#   F     G#     F     F# 
Street fights echo into the night 
       A#m                       F#m 
Getting nervous deadbolt windows and bars 
 F#  F      G#     F     F# 
Tall poppies, big fish in little ponds 
  F#          F          G# 
I'm sick of glass in the gutter (Our neighbourhood) 
  F#   F    G#   F       F# 
We get by, pull down our blinds 
       F#m                 F# 
It's the only way we ever sleep good 
     F#m 
Close the door on your neighbourhood 
 
Break
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Verse 3
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Some common sense screamed across the fence 
 
From the bloke who says your music volume makes him tense 
 
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You hear him yell at his missus almost every day 
 
But he treats you like the animal anyway 
 
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       Social prejudice is f*cked 
 
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Or is it just my shitty luck that I'm here? 
 
Chorus
    F#       F            G#       F 
Our neighbourhood is full of sketchy places 
  F#        F            G# 
Creepy faces and crackheads (Our neighbourhood) 
  F#   F     G#     F     F# 
Street fights echo into the night 
       A#m                       F#m 
Getting nervous deadbolt windows and bars 
 F#  F      G#     F     F# 
Tall poppies, big fish in little ponds 
  F#          F          G# 
I'm sick of glass in the gutter (Our neighbourhood) 
  F#   F    G#   F       F# 
We get by, pull down our blinds 
       F#m                 F# 
It's the only way we ever sleep good 
      F#m                   F# 
Think of moving 'cause you know that you should 
     F#m 
Close the door on your neighbourhood 
 
Outro
    C# 
Well, perceived safety in your neighbourhood 
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Perceived safety in your neighbourhood 
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Perceived safety in your neighbourhood 
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Perceived safety in your neighbourhood (rapid fade out)