Standard (EADGBE)

Hello cruel world so this is you

A broken heart a withered view

I'm looking out to face another day

The angry mob, the happy mass

This birthday cake may be the last

I'm looking out to find another way

Norman Rockwell colours fade

All my favorite things have changed

What the hell,

Hello cruel world

I thought I heard an opera star

Who had no home under the stars

She sang and sang and sang the night away

And Mother Nature changed her name

She doesn't want to play the game

I don't believe she'll ever be the same

So Big Brother never came

Howdy-Doody gets the blame

But what the hell

Hello cruel world

Bad and beautiful and strange

Monkeys dancing in a cage

But what the hell

Hello cruel world

Venus de Milo grew an arm

And Old MacDonald bought the farm

Say goodbye

Hello cruel world

do do do-do do do do do do do do-do do do do do

do do do-do do do do do do do do-do do do do do

do do do-do do do do do

Norman Rockwell colours fade

All my favorite things have changed

But what the hell, hello cruel world

Bad and beautiful and strange

Monkeys dancing in a cage

But what the hell

Hello cruel world

(Say goodbye, hello cruel world)

But what the hell

Hello cruel world (do do do-do do do do-do) [repeat backup vox to end]

(Hello hello, Ooooh ooooh do do do-do dooooo)

Hello cruel world