Intro
F#m - D - A - E
VERSE 1:
F#m
The cold, cold harbor I went swimming in
D
Elegant, so elegant
A
It'd not be so bad to be buried beneath
E
The warmth of your leather jacket
F#m
Are you a pelican a penguin
D
Or a partridge in a tree?
A
Do you adhere to the absolute
E
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 E
Stuck in rapid, rapid rewind
VERSE 2:
F#m
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
E
Are they afraid of a parade?
F#m
Oh my forehead pressed in the pillowcase
D
My ears are full of bells
A
Is that an elephant in the old staircase?
E
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 E
Stuck in rapid, rapid rewind
SOLO:
F#m - D - A - E [x2]
BRIDGE:
F#m
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
E
In a junkyard I had found
F#m
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
E
In a kaleidoscope of light
VERSE 3:
F#m
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
E
My heart obsidian for you
F#m
There is darkness round my neck
D
My heart is brass and melting quick
A
I need the forgiveness of the ignorant
E
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 E
Stuck in rapid, rapid rewind
OUTRO:
F#m - F#m - F#m - Bm