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