Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

(Talking, followed by barre F chord, Bb)

(counts in)

Verse

And the first one tore a picture

Of a dead and hanging man

Who was kissing foreign fishes

That flew right out of his hand

And when I put my hands aroud him

I felt the blushing blood run through my cheeks

And an eerines surrounded me

When his tongue began to speak

and he said,

Oh boy you are so pretty

Enough to wrap up tight in rice paper strings

And when I finally kissed him

The whole world began to ring,

Lost like a bell that's tipping over

With two cracks along both sides

and I

knew the world was over

So I took a look outside

And watched the fires that were reaching up

to the weathervane and tops of trees

And the waiting scene and the sunday dream

They're all waiting here for me

(chord chages similar during trumpets\chorus)

Deli markets and the flower stands

Pretty girls and the burning men

Hanging out on the hooks next to window displays

And I took out my tongue twice removed from my face

Across a bridge and across the mountains

Threw a nickel in a fountain

To save my soul from all these troubled times

And all the guts that I don't have the guts to take

to soothe my mind so I'm

Always sober

Always aching

Always heading toward

Mass suicide, occult figuirnes

And wasted gas station attendants

Attending to their jobs

And a nice drive in the country

Find a nice cliff to drop off, oh

And this life just gets so grating

All the grittiness of life, but don't

Take those pills your boyfriend gave you

You're too wonderful to die

(trumpet part)

And the last one tore a picture

From the pornographic page

And all the pleasure points attacking

All the looks of love were staged

And it's a lie that you've been given

And it hurts you every day

So why should I lie her naked

When it's just too far away

from anything

you could call love,

Any love worth living for

So I sleep out in the gutter

You can sleep here on the floor

And when I wake up in the morning

I'll forget to lock the door

Cause with a match that's mean and some gasoline

You won't see me any more