[Introduction] (piano then voices) |---------5-5--5-6-6--6-5---------| |----6--6------------6-5-----| |6-7------------6-7-| |------------| E|------------| x5 for the piano x7 for the voices [Verse 1] Was he badly mistaken or guided As he’d wandered his valley built in silence? He’d cover his face to speak As he chewed off his finger to the bone The haze of his coloured days That march of content as his dignity splits to unveil His bitter sweetness [Instrumental] [Verse 2] The town would shudder and stare At his presence with a single glare As he makes his way through The local square and he says to them "You’re a broken fence in the yard of annoyance You’re a broken fence in the yard of annoyance" Annoyance [Chorus] Hang the cyst Hang the cyst Hang the cyst [Solo] x2 x4 [Verse 3] The first time that they saw him laugh Was at the sight of his wilting noose And their chants were soon reduced to an angry silence He escaped in the shock of the snap His wonderful vanishing act Was a spectacle but not what anyone expected The route was planned as much as the brooch pin dagger The route was planned as much as the brooch pin dagger [Chorus] Catch the cyst Catch the cyst Catch the cyst Catch the cyst [Outro] (with hammer-on the G string) Hang the cyst hang the cyst hang the cyst hang the cyst Hang the cyst hang the cyst hang the cyst hang the cyst Hang the cyst hang the cyst hang the cyst hang the cyst Hang the cyst hang the cyst hang the cyst hang the cyst Hang the cyst hang the cyst hang the cyst hang the cyst Hang the cyst hang the cyst hang the cyst hang the cyst