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