Verse
N.C.
If you are addictive
N.C.
Are you then an addict?
N.C.
Curled up in the attic or
N.F. C/C
If you want a closet on a hanger
Eb/A#
Are they gonna try you
Gm/D
On like a jacket and
Ab/Eb Eb/A#
Button up your seams like stones
Ab/Eb Eb/A#
Make you feel used up and left alone
[Verse 2]
F/C
Like you're a spectacle and I will
Eb/A#
Watch you be half-hearted
Eb/A#
Answering their questions bejeweled
F/C
Like they're all artists making offerings
Eb/A#
Dialogue and lacquer
Gm/D
And being like an actor
Ab/Eb Eb/A#
Glean your teeth about their songs
[Verse 3]
F/C
And though I might be stupid
Eb/A#
I still can be an artist
Eb/A#
I can be an artist if I say so
F/C
And you can't do nothing 'bout it
Eb/A#
No dialogue in congress
Gm/D
If I squint and walk away
Ab/Eb Eb/A#
You'll see the brilliance beneath my pout
Ab/Eb Eb/A#
I think you're still wasting all my time somehow
F/C Ab/Eb
Still the only thing that I can write is about you
[Bridge]
Dm/A
[Verse 4]
F/C
Losing all my talent
Eb/A#
Cooped up in the attic
Eb/A#
Because I don't ever practice and
Eb/A#
I don't want to
F/C
Draped in all my favorites
Eb/A# Gm/D
I'm losing all my talent now
Ab/Eb Eb/A#
With nobody to stand around
F/C Ab/Eb
With nobody to stand around