Intro
Cm - G# - D# - A#
VERSE 1:
Cm
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
Cm
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:
Cm
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?
Cm
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:
Cm - G# - D# - A# [x2]
BRIDGE:
Cm
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
Cm
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:
Cm
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
Cm
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:
Cm - Cm - Cm - Bm