D               G
He drove in a doomed Corvette
                       D                                          G
Helen was in the passenger seat eating melon and spitting out the seeds
                          D                       G                            D    G  D  G
Feeling happy to be alone but still turning a saxophone as cold as stone kinda like

[Verse 2]
                               D                    G
She said this is what the apocalypse will look like
               D          G
A tornado with human eyes
                               D
Poisoned birdbaths and torrents of chemical rain
               G                                   D          G
Like the heads of state hyperventilating in clouds of methane
               D           G  D  G
Sundown on the human heart

[Verse 3]
                          D                     G
And this is what the apocalypse will sound like
                             D          G
But it will be loud as a mushroom cloud
                         D
It will sound like final jeopardy
                                 G
But somehow be ghostly like a glockenspiel
                             D                             G
Like the testing of bombs or the tapping of stiletto heels

[Chorus]
                   D
It will sound like jazz
          G
Jazz jazz jazz
            D
Jazz on the autobahn
G                   D
 It will sound like jazz
          G
Jazz jazz jazz
            D        G
Jazz on the autobahn

[Verse 4]
                D
The sheriff disagreed
G                                        D
He tried to make the distinction between death and extinction
G                                  D
They stopped off at a place called Hamburger Heaven to grab a bite to eat
    G                                     D
But Helen had no appetite, she just drank a 7 Up
                                    G
While the sheriff tapped his coffee cup to a distant beat

[Interlude]
D  G  D  G

[Verse 5]
                             D
It won't look like those old frescoes, man I don't think so
G                                   D
There will be no angels with swords, man I don't think so
G                         D
No jubilant beings in the sky above, man I don't think so
G                                  D
And it won't look like those old movies neither
G                                              D
There will be no drag racing through the bombed out streets neither
G                           D
No shareholders will be orbiting the earth, man neither
G                            D
It will be hard to recognize each other through our oxygen masks
G                                       D
The successful sons of businessmen will set their desks on fire
           G                                           D
While five star generals of the free world weep in the oil-choked tide

[Chorus]
G                   D
It won't sound like jazz
          G
Jazz jazz jazz
            D
Jazz on the autobahn
G                   D
It won't sound like jazz
          G
Jazz jazz jazz
            D
Jazz on the autobahn

[Verse 6]
G                  D
They agreed to disagree
G                    D
They zoomed off in a doomed Corvette
G                           D
The sheriff couldn't recall feeling this way his entire life
      G                                     D
As he drove through the principalities of unreality
                                G
On the run with somebody else's wife
               D         G  D  G
The heiress of Texas oil

[Verse 7]
D
 What is freedom? He thought
G                       D
 Is it to be empty of desire?
G                                  D
Is it to find everything I've lost or have been in search of?
            G                                              D
Or is it to return to the things is which there is no more returning?

[Chorus]
G                  D
 Does it feel like jazz?
          G
Jazz jazz jazz
            D
Jazz on the autobahn
G                 D
Does it feel like jazz?
          G
Jazz jazz jazz
            D
Jazz on the autobahn
G                  D
 Does it feel like jazz?
          G
Jazz jazz jazz
            D
Jazz on the autobahn
G                  D
 Does it feel like jazz?
          G
Jazz jazz jazz
            D
Jazz on the autobahn
G                  D
 Does it feel like jazz?
          G
Jazz jazz jazz
            D
Jazz on the autobahn
G                  D
 Does it feel like jazz?
          G
Jazz jazz jazz
            D        G  D
Jazz on the autobahn