When Grandma got dementia

VERSE
Bm
When Grandma got dementia
D
It started gradually
Em
She'd forget the name of friends and places
F#
Momentarily

As Grandma got dementia
A little more each day
The woman that we new and loved
Slowly went away

When Grandma got dementia
How my mother cried
Helpless to do anything
As her mother slowly died

[Instrumental]

The doctors didn't mention
The anger and the screams
As she fought a losing battle
Her against her dreams

When Grandma got dementia

I was only young

But I still remember it vividly

As what mum could become

Oh Grandma, oh grandma
Oh Grandma, oh grandma

Oh Grandma, oh grandma

Oh Grandma, oh grandma

[Instrumental]

(One strum)

When Grandma got dementia

We new there's no way back

Long ago she left this world

We were living with the sack

And as Grandma and dementia
Became one and the same
She remained our Grandma
But only in name (slower)

You used to be great

115 BPM

CHORUS
                        F
You used to be great
                  C
I like your early stuff
                          Bf                                 C
When you were happy and young and fun

You used to be great
When you were channeling

VERSE (intermittent strumming)
But you got old
And you got serious
Took yourself
To extremes

With conversions
And inversions
Of the versions
You thought you had been

Bf                         C
Chasing the ghost of a dream

CHORUS

VERSE

 trying hard
Trying too hard
To get back
To what you thought you had been

Casting aspersions
Against persons
For desertions
You perceived there had been

You were chasing the ghost of a dream

CHORUS

CHORUS (instrumental)

MIDDLE

Maybe you should have 

taken a break

Travelled around well it's 

not too late

Childhood innocence is 

still somewhere

Pull off the shades 

to get back there

CHORUS

And be great

Just like your early stuff...

Hard to find someone who’ll do a good job

Capo 2nd

VERSE
C                                                          Am
It's hard to find someone who’ll do a good job
C                                      F
Someone you can trust to get it right
F                                         Am
It'll help as you struggle along
                 F               C         
If you expect to it be wrong
                       F                          G
After they've given up half way through
                     C
And said 'that'll do'

VERSE
It's not that they don't know or just can't do it
It's that they don't take a pride in what they've done
So budget in your sum
The cost of getting it redone
When they don't follow through
They say 'that'll do'

VERSE
Start to think that good isn't good enough
And even then the best can be bettered
But few people follow this sermon
Most of them are German
Whatever they hand up for revue
You say 'that won't do'

MIDDLE
Things are getting worse
In our disposable city
Where nothing we buy
Is built to last

And we're all getting used to that
So what if it wears down fast
It was cheap
I'll buy another one

VERSE
It's hard to find someone who'll do a good job
A professional who's obsessed with perfection
Trouble is they're never satisfied
No matter how hard they've tried
Finally you're fed up to
You say 'that'll do'

My Sweet Dharma

VERSE
Am
My pure and precious dharma
E7
What I wouldn't do for you
Dm
I'll keep you pure, be always sure
E7+
Let nothing harm my heart

I'll protect my precious dharma
Won't let anger burn it down
No violent movies, no video games
I'll see nobody harmed

I'll shield my precious dharma
From any sexual deceit
Remain passionless, not obsess for flesh
See no pornography

CHORUS
My dharma
My sweet dharma
My dharma
My sweet dharma

VERSE
My pure and precious dharma
Is such a fragile thing
It could so easily die, telling one little lie
You could make a river from my tears

So I'll hide my precious dharma
From the very idea of theft
Take nothing not given, just live and let living
Let greed never touch my heart

CHORUS
It's my dharma
My sweet dharma
My dharma
Sweet dharma

It's my dharma
My sweet dharma
My dharma
....

INSTRUMENTAL

VERSE
I love my precious dharma
It gives meaning to my life
I live life at leisure, with this secret to pleasure
The happiest I've ever been

CHORUS
My sweet dharma
My sweet dharma
My dharma
Sweet dharma

MIDDLE
It would drown in alcohol
It would die on drugs
Any type of intoxication
Would wash it from the earth

CHORUS
It's my dharma My dharma My dharma My dharma My dharma
My dharma
My sweet dharma

Sweet dharma

My sweet dharma

My dharma.......

.......

LYRICS:

My pure and precious dharma
What I wouldn't do for you
I'll keep you pure, be always sure
Let nothing harm my heart

I'll protect my precious dharma
Won't let anger burn it down
No violent movies, no video games
I'll see nobody harmed

I'll shield my precious dharma
From any sexual deceit
Remain passionless, not obsess for flesh
See no pornography

My dharma
My sweet dharma
My dharma
My sweet dharma

My pure and precious dharma
Is such a fragile thing
It could so easily die, telling one little lie
You could make a river from my tears

So I'll hide my precious dharma
From the very idea of theft
Take nothing not given, just live and let living
Let greed never touch my heart

It's my dharma
My sweet dharma
My dharma
Sweet dharma

It's my dharma
My sweet dharma
My dharma

I love my precious dharma
It gives meaning to my life
I live life at leisure, with this secret to pleasure
The happiest I've ever been

My sweet dharma
My sweet dharma
My dharma
Sweet dharma

It would drown in alcohol
It would die on drugs
Any type of intoxication
Would wash it from the earth

It's my dharma My dharma My dharma My dharma My dharma
My dharma
My sweet dharma

Sweet dharma

My sweet dharma

My dharma.......

.......

Alright in the end

Alright in the end

VERSE
G                     Em
How are your problems?
C                          D
Has today been a good day?

Do you have any new ones?
Or are they the same ones as yesterday?

Are they just for you? Or can I have one to?
I think you've enough to go around

BRIDGE
C                                              D
And if you could let one go at last
You'd see that all problems pass

CHORUS
If you don't play with it, don't pick at the scab
Just leave it alone, don't scratch it

It'll be alright in the end
If it's not alright, it's not yet the end x2

VERSE
All these problems, getting you down
Dragging your body and mind, into the ground

And I would comfort you, if there's something I could do
But the only cure is time

BRIDGE + CHORUS

MIDDLE
Em          G
Go to a place
Where they'll teach ya
To say Anicca
D                        D
All things must pass

CHORUS

OUTRO x3
It'll be alright in the end
If it's not alright...

Around me

VERSE
Egos on the rampage
Not a pretty sight
I'm up for the ugly prize

Searching out in others
Only their mistakes
But when I put the eye aside

CHORUS
She thinks I'm just being selfish
Thinking of myself and no one else here
Playing a game of wait and see
See if the world revolves around me
Or in the chaos swirling around
Checking the background hearing the sounds
Happy to notice, pleased to see
The world does not revolve around

VERSE
Dissatisfaction
With all action
Patterns on repeat

Make a little room
Tune it out
All the radios

CHORUS

Around me x8

MIDDLE
Focused minds
Energy and drive
The attention that we crave

All this love
All these voices
Screaming to be heard

CHORUS