How Long

[A]
 [C]

 [A]
 [C]How long have we known each other now?    Five, ten years, and I

 [A]
 [C]guess we've changed,   and we'd

 [A]
 [C]run into each other in the subterranean

 [D]world...     With the extras in their fright wigs and fins

 [F]on their way from funkhole to dugout...       and

 [D]one night would keel over into another,
 and there never would seem to be a day,  and

 [F]hey, you used to say you were polishing up on your survival tactics

 [D](techinques) for the end of the world...      and

 [C]
 [Bb]you, you used to dig your beak into my ear and say "nothing"

 [F]
 [Bb]like a secret...

 [D] [Gbass]
 [C] [Fbass]
 [D] [Gbass]
 [C]Ho[Fbass]w long have we known each other now?   Fifteen, twenty years maybe, and

 [C]
 [Bb]certainly we've changed...         and we'd

 [C]
 [Bb]run into each other in the subterranean

 [D]world...

 [C]And before I knew you or before we met
 oh yes, way before then I was

 [D]itching in the cradle, making my way to the slime pits & the sludge traps

 [F]looking for love...    and

 [D]all the bushy brats turned out from the western burgs

 [C]minced in the powdermills,   noctambulating around

 [D]nowheresville

 [D]and some were so desperate for sleep the only retreat was the

 [C]
 [Bb]
 [F]
 [Bb]sad dormitory... yes, one would go for a rest (or a test?)

 [D] [Gbass]
 [C] [Fbass]
 [D] [Gbass]
 [C]Ho[Fbass]w long have we known each other now?   up to thirty years I guess, and

 [C]
 [Bb]maybe we've changed...         and

 [C]
 [Bb]didn't we see each other in the subterranean

 [D]world?

 [F]You, did you really have your headress?  -  Hmmm.... yes
 I used to dress up

 [D]like a girl, and how did you ever make it back home?  I... I...

 [F]I'd leave a trail of pearls.  Did you ever see a doctor - or a priest?

 [D]oh yeah - a priest

 [D]do you remember the guy with the sign "the end is nigh"?    That was

 [F]me (do you remember what was written on the back?)

 [D]               and

 [F]Do remember the guy with a boxful of wind?  or maybe it was a cassette

 [D]I don't really... I don't know either - or was it me?

 [C]
 [Bb]
 [F]
 [Bb]

 [D]
 [F]How long have we known each other now?   I've never seen you in my life
                                                          (forty years?)

 [D]
 [F]How long have we known each other now?   I've never seen you in my life
                                                           (fifty years)

 [C]
 [Bb]How long have we known each other now?   I've never seen you in my life
                                     (sixty, seventy, eighty three years)

 [C]
 [Bb]I hope that we've changed...         and

 [C]
 [Bb]we've never seen each other in the subterranean