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{title: Mad world} {artist: Gary Jules} {time: 4/4} {tempo: 87} {key: Fm} {meta: author Frans-Willem Post, 2026-05-06} {start_of_part: Intro} [Fm] [Bb] [Fm] [Bb] {end_of_part} {start_of_verse: Verse 1} [Fm] All around me are fa[Ab]miliar faces, [Eb]worn out places, [Bb]worn out faces [Fm] Bright and early for the [Ab]daily races, [Eb]going nowhere, [Bb]going nowhere {end_of_verse} {start_of_verse: Verse 2} [Fm] Their tears are filling [Ab]up their glasses, [Eb]no expression, [Bb]no expression [Fm] Hide my head I want to [Ab]drown my sorrow, [Eb]no tomorrow, [Bb]no tomorrow {end_of_verse} {start_of_chorus: Chorus} [Fm] And I find it kind of [Bb]funny, I find it kind of [Fm]sad These dreams in which I'm [Bb]dying, are the best I've ever [Fm]had I find it hard to [Bb]tell you, I find it hard to [Fm]take When people run in [Bb]circles it's a very very, [Fm] mad [Bb]world, [Fm] mad [Bb]world {end_of_chorus} {start_of_verse: Verse 3} [Fm] Children waiting for the [Ab]day they feel good, [Eb]happy birthday, [Bb]happy birthday [Fm] And they feel the way that [Ab]every child should, [Eb]sit and listen, [Bb]sit and listen {end_of_verse} {start_of_verse: Verse 4} [Fm] Went to school and I was [Ab]very nervous, [Eb]no one knew me, [Bb]no one knew me [Fm] Hello teacher tell me [Ab]what's my lesson, [Eb]look right through me, [Bb]look right through me {end_of_verse} {chorus: Chorus 2} {start_of_part: Outtro} [Fm] Enlargen [Bb]your world [Fm] Mad [Bb]world {end_of_part}