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