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