Intro
E/G# A
E/G# A
E/G# A
B C#m
[Verse]
E/G# A
I will do your interview
E/G# A
Try to explain what I'm going through
E/G# A B C#m
Give you something to read into in a million different ways
E/G# A E/G# A
B sick version of telephone starts at the clip of the microphone
E/G# A B C#m
B game we thought we had all outgrown, but still everybody plays
[Chorus]
B E/G# A G#m
Ignoring all of the remedies, believing all of the rumors
F#m E/G# A
With their endless database
B E/G# A G#m
I wanna sit with my enemies and say, "we should have done this sooner"
F#m E/G# A
While I look them in the face
F#m E/G# A
Maybe that will crack the case
[Verse]
E/G# A E/G# A
I got a friend who's been thinking 'bout finally kicking her husband out
E/G# A B C#m
His second life as a talent scout, finally got him caught
E/G# A E/G# A
While she was throwing out all his clothes she heard a voice from beyond the throes
E/G# A B C#m
"Punish him for the life he chose, but forgive the past that he did not."
[Chorus]
B E/G# A G#m
It's really hard to hate anyone once you know what they've lived through
F#m E/G# A
And once they've given you a taste
B E/G# A G#m
She said, "This is for you to overcome, but I will always love you,"
F#m E/G# A
In her perfect state of grace
F#m E/G# A
Maybe that will crack the case
[Refrain]
E/G# A
E/G# A
E/G# A
B C#m
[Verse]
E/G# A
Now that we're through with formalities
E/G# A
What is it you want to ask of me?
E/G# A
I'll answer open and honestly
B C#m
Whatever that means
E/G# A
Finding out that we occupy
E/G# A
Somebody else's opposing side
E/G# A B C#m
On the banks of some great divide, two versions of a dream
[Chorus]
B E/G# A G#m
Countless revisions of history trying to tell us the future
F#m E/G# A
Between each commercial break
B E/G#
I wanna call off the calvary
A G#m
Declare no winners or losers
F#m E/G# A
And forgive our shared mistakes
F#m E/G# A
They can pick the time and place
F#m E/G# A
Maybe that will crack the case