Verse 1Gm
Kickin' back in the shadows
Gm
Got no need for the light
Gm
Who's sorry now, old timer?
Gm
Look at how you've spent your life
Am
Scrounging for change, to put some money in your pocket
Am
My, how scratch does burn
Am
Laughing at the suckers as you pissed it away
Gm
But I got the time
Gm
Even I got the muscle
Gm
I got the need to lay it all on the line
Gm
I ain't afraid of your smokescreen hustle
ChorusBbAbF
It's a perfect crime
BbAbF
God dammit, it's a perfect crime
BbAbF
Motherfucker, it's a perfect crime
BbAbF
I said, it's perfect
Verse 2C7F7
Keep the demons down and drag the skeletons out
C7F7
I got a blind man following me, in chains
C7F7
I said, he's fun to watch when the world has stopped
C7C7
An' I think he's got something to say
C7
You wanna fuck with me?
F7
Don't fuck with me
C7
'Cause I'm what you'll be
C7
So don't fuck with me
D7
If you had better sense
F7BbAbF
You'd just step aside from the bad side of me
BbAbF
Don't fuck with the bad side of me
BbAbF
Stay away from the bad side of me
BbAbF
Don't fuck with the bad side
Verse 3Gm
Call on everybody who's got last rites
Gm
Said, it's better if you locked them away
Gm
Running through the visions at the speed of light
BbAbF
Won't you let me be?
BbAbF
Motherfucker, just let me be
BbAbF
God dammit, better let me be
BbAbF
Don't you know you better let me... aah!
ChorusBbAbF
Perfect crime
BbAbF
God dammit, it's a perfect crime
BbAbF
Motherfucker, it's a perfect crime
BbAbF
Don't you know, it's a perfect crime
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