Intro
Am - F - C - G
VERSE 1:
Am
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
Am
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:
Am
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?
Am
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:
Am - F - C - G [x2]
BRIDGE:
Am
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
Am
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:
Am
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
Am
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:
Am - Am - Am - Bm