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