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