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