B F# E G#m E F#
B F# E G#m E C#m
B F# E
What lesson were you trying to teach?
G#m E F#
Was it happiness is always slightly out of reach
B F# E
or that I cannot subsist without any sleep
G#m E C#m
Or that I am a whale lying dead on a beach
B F# E
Well I don't think you can practice the bullshit you preach
G#m E C#m
Because you are a doctor, drinking Clorox bleach
E F# B F# E G#m E F#
And you'll be dead on my grass by morning point
B F# E G#m E F#
B F# E
Some manure to feed the flowers
G#m E C#m
because I am no longer counting hours
B F# E
This song is the cap on a bottle of power
G#m E C#m
that you can die hoping you will not devour
B F# E
Because you are not a fucking princess,
G#m E C#m
you are a car with a dead battery
B F# E
Now that my life is no longer a mess,
G#m E F#
all the pieces are falling into place
B F# E G#m E F#
B F# E G#m E C#m A