Steam Powered Giraffe - Please Explain Chords

D
Gather round

Sit on down

Forget your worries

What's lost is found
D
Purge the data

Break through strata

Dust off your CPU

Put it to a new use


Been trying to get this one out

For a good long while

The centuries turn to the past

Still I lay beguiled
  G
Involuntary remarks
       Gm             D
For an old quandary a new
A
Left in the dark
          G            D
What's an old robot to do

A
Please explain

D                    G
What to do with this wild goose
           D                 G
If there's nothing to chase (Please Explain)
D                 G
What to do if the screw turns loose
            E
And there's nothing to gain
A                    D
Please explain it to me

D
If your mustache makes a sandwich

Serve it on a platter

Two lovely nouns they need a verb

The panda climbs the ladder
      G
If my mouth was made for mimicry
         Gm              D
What's a bronze robot to chew
A
Gum in my gears
        G          Gm    D
And bat meat in my fancy shoes

A
Please explain

D                   G
What to do with the panda on the roof
         D                       G
Guess it makes for good imagery (Please explain)
D                       G
What to do with the bat meat in my fancy shoes
        F#m
I could sell it to the panda
Em                   A
Please explain it to me

G C G C G C Em A

  D
I do not need uranium

Or your fossil fuels

Friction from curiosity

Powers my hydro-tubes
G
Answers stem more questions
                D
And grow my algorithms anew

They do?

Yes they do
           Em             A
If there's no concepts to grasp
           D  G      D
What would I, robot, do

A
Please explain

D                 G
What to do if the point is moot
         D            G
What's a moot anyway (I don't know)
          D
Is it the meat in my fancy shoes?
       G
Or the name of this wild goose?
                   Em
Guess we need some good-old-fashioned explaining
A                    G
Please explain it to me

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