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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

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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