Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

No one wants to hear about your 97th tear,

so dry your eyes or let it go

uncried, my dear. I am all out of love to mouth into your ear, and not above

letting a love song disappear before it's written.

And no one wants a tune about the 100th luftballoon that was seen

shooting from the window of your room, to be a spot against the sky's

colossal gloom and land, deflated, in some neighbor state that's strewn with

99 others.

8 Chinese brothers; well, there's a reason why the last is smiling wide

and sitting higher than the others,

swinging his arms.

You would probably die before you shot up 9 miles high

Your eyes dilated as light played upon the sight

Of TVC16 as it sings you goodnight

Relaxed as hell and locked up in cell 45

I hope you're feeling better

51st way to leave your lover

Admittedly, it doesn't seem to be as gentle or as clean as all the others

Even a scars all in the after hours of some Greenpoint bar

I told you, I can't listen, baby, 'bout the 4th time you were a lady

and how your forthrightness betrayed a secret shyness

Stripped away by days of being hailed as "your highness"

And what's new pussycat, as you were once a lionness

They cut your claws out

Kitten, not everyone's keen on lighting candle 17,

the party's done, the cake's all gone, the plates are clean

The chauffeur's near and from the cheerless mezzanine

And in just one year, this straight world could pay to see

what they have been missing

You were caught kissing 8 chinese brothers

Well, there's a reason why the last is smiling wide and sitting higher than the others

Staking with charm

And he says, "Lets get lost, let them send out alarms

He says, "Let's get crossed out and come to harm"

"Lets make the world's stupidest stand and truly mean it

Lets hit the limit of loss over lover's arms

No, lets exceed it"