[INTRO]
(Talking, followed by barre F chord, Bb)
(counts in)
[Ebsus4] [Eb] [Ebm7]
[E] -
B-9---------8------6-6-8---8__let ring__
G-8---------8------8-8-8---8____________
D-8---------8------8-8-8---8____________
[A] -
[E] -
[VERSE]
[Bb]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
[F]
And when I put my hands aroud him
I felt the blushing blood run through my cheeks
[Bb]And an eerines surrounded me
When his tongue began to speak
and he said,
[F]Oh boy you are so pretty
Enough to wrap up tight in rice paper strings
[Bb]And when I finally kissed him
The whole world began to ring,
[F]Lost like a bell that's tipping over
With two cracks along both sides
and I
[Bb]knew the world was over
So I took a look outside
[F]And watched the fires that were reaching up
to the weathervane and tops of trees
[Bb]And the waiting scene and the sunday dream
They're all waiting here for me
(chord chages similar during trumpets\chorus)
[Bb]Deli markets and the flower stands
Pretty girls and the burning men
[F]Hanging out on the hooks next to window displays
And I took out my tongue twice removed from my face
[Bb]Across a bridge and across the mountains
Threw a nickel in a fountain
[F]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
[Bb]Always sober
Always aching
Always heading toward
Mass suicide, occult figuirnes
[F]And wasted gas station attendants
Attending to their jobs
[Bb]And a nice drive in the country
Find a nice cliff to drop off, oh
[F]And this life just gets so grating
All the grittiness of life, but don't
[Bb]Take those pills your boyfriend gave you
You're too wonderful to die
(trumpet part)
[Bb]And the last one tore a picture
From the pornographic page
And all the pleasure points attacking
All the looks of love were staged
[F]And it's a lie that you've been given
And it hurts you every day
[Bb]So why should I lie her naked
When it's just too far away
from anything
[F]you could call love,
Any love worth living for
[Bb]So I sleep out in the gutter
You can sleep here on the floor
[F]And when I wake up in the morning
I'll forget to lock the door
[Bb]Cause with a match that's mean and some gasoline
You won't see me any more
(Talking, followed by barre F chord, Bb)
(counts in)
[Ebsus4] [Eb] [Ebm7]
[E] -
B-9---------8------6-6-8---8__let ring__
G-8---------8------8-8-8---8____________
D-8---------8------8-8-8---8____________
[A] -
[E] -
[VERSE]
[Bb]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
[F]
And when I put my hands aroud him
I felt the blushing blood run through my cheeks
[Bb]And an eerines surrounded me
When his tongue began to speak
and he said,
[F]Oh boy you are so pretty
Enough to wrap up tight in rice paper strings
[Bb]And when I finally kissed him
The whole world began to ring,
[F]Lost like a bell that's tipping over
With two cracks along both sides
and I
[Bb]knew the world was over
So I took a look outside
[F]And watched the fires that were reaching up
to the weathervane and tops of trees
[Bb]And the waiting scene and the sunday dream
They're all waiting here for me
(chord chages similar during trumpets\chorus)
[Bb]Deli markets and the flower stands
Pretty girls and the burning men
[F]Hanging out on the hooks next to window displays
And I took out my tongue twice removed from my face
[Bb]Across a bridge and across the mountains
Threw a nickel in a fountain
[F]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
[Bb]Always sober
Always aching
Always heading toward
Mass suicide, occult figuirnes
[F]And wasted gas station attendants
Attending to their jobs
[Bb]And a nice drive in the country
Find a nice cliff to drop off, oh
[F]And this life just gets so grating
All the grittiness of life, but don't
[Bb]Take those pills your boyfriend gave you
You're too wonderful to die
(trumpet part)
[Bb]And the last one tore a picture
From the pornographic page
And all the pleasure points attacking
All the looks of love were staged
[F]And it's a lie that you've been given
And it hurts you every day
[Bb]So why should I lie her naked
When it's just too far away
from anything
[F]you could call love,
Any love worth living for
[Bb]So I sleep out in the gutter
You can sleep here on the floor
[F]And when I wake up in the morning
I'll forget to lock the door
[Bb]Cause with a match that's mean and some gasoline
You won't see me any more
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