INTRO/VERSE: Bm D
        Bm
We were young heartbreakers estranged from our wealthy parents,
      D
doing key bumps in a handicap bathroom.
Bm                             D 
Stoned complacent, ambivalent, mass communicating with shared subconscious.

CHORUS:
      D      A
Suffocation.
G                          D
Modern life in the western world.

D A G

Bm
Homosexual sons of unfulfilled fathers.
D
Divorced from reality, free and young.
        Bm
We were bashing our brains out on a kitchen cabinet.
         D
It was a televised crucifixion.


     D       A
Suffocation.
G                          D
Modern life in the western world.

D A G

BRIDGE: Bm D
        
        Bm
We were star-crossed, we were destitute.
    D
Our words spoke mass destruction.
           Bm
We watched the sun rise in the morning.
             D
Daughters in arm, we all are orphans.
     
     D        A
Suffocation.
G                          D
Modern life in the western world.
               
D A G

               D      A  G
In the western world. 

D A G