Intro
Bm - G - D - A
VERSE 1:
Bm
The cold, cold harbor I went swimming in
G
Elegant, so elegant
D
It'd not be so bad to be buried beneath
A
The warmth of your leather jacket
Bm
Are you a pelican a penguin
G
Or a partridge in a tree?
D
Do you adhere to the absolute
A
Or preach possibility?
CHORUS:
G
Give me a pill to pop
I need a pharmacist
D
I need a surgeon for my mind
G
There's all these images and video footage
D A
Stuck in rapid, rapid rewind
VERSE 2:
Bm
Wasn't it these streets
Wasn't it this church
G
We walked past in the rain
D
Why are these police looking so hurt
A
Are they afraid of a parade?
Bm
Oh my forehead pressed in the pillowcase
G
My ears are full of bells
D
Is that an elephant in the old staircase?
A
Are those sirens wishing me well?
CHORUS:
G
Give me a pill to pop
I need a pharmacist
D
I need a surgeon for my mind
G
There's all these images and video footage
D A
Stuck in rapid, rapid rewind
SOLO:
Bm - G - D - A [x2]
BRIDGE:
Bm
I heard a whispered cure; steam from a lava bed
G
With the sea boiling all around
D
Beneath a piano bench full of written words
A
In a junkyard I had found
Bm
There was a music box a dancer on top
G
And I wound it up so tight
D
That the spring snapped and her head fell off
A
In a kaleidoscope of light
VERSE 3:
Bm
When they come in, they'll come in guns blazing
G
Isn't that what they always say they'll do?
D
I awake tired and I'm always strangling
A
My heart obsidian for you
Bm
There is darkness round my neck
G
My heart is brass and melting quick
D
I need the forgiveness of the ignorant
A
But there's no simple cure or answer for it
CHORUS:
G
Give me a pill to pop
I need a pharmacist
D
I need a surgeon for my mind
G
There's all these images and video footage
D
Stuck in rapid rewind
G
Give me a pill to pop
I need a pharmacist
D
I need a surgeon for my mind
G
There's all these images and video footage
D A
Stuck in rapid, rapid rewind
OUTRO:
Bm - Bm - Bm - Bm