Tom: Em
Gm F Eb D
Give us this day our daily dose of faux affliction
Gm
Forgive our sins forged at the pulpit
Eb D
With forked tongues selling faux sermons
Gm F Eb
'Cause I am a new wave gospel sharp
D
And you'll be thy witness
Gm
So gentlemen, if you're gonna preach
D Eb
For God sakes preach with conviction
[Camisado]
D
You're a regular decorated emergency
D
You're a regular decorated emergency
D D7
Bm
This is the scent of dead skin on a linoleum floor
G
This is the scent of quarantine wings in a hospital
D
It's not so pleasant and it's not so conventional
A Bbm
It sure as hell ain't normal but we deal, we deal
Bm
The anesthetic never set in and I'm wondering where
G
The apathy and urgency is that I thought I phoned in
D
No it's not so pleasant and it's not so conventional
A Bbm
It sure as hell ain't normal but we deal, we deal
[Build God, Then We'll Talk]
D Gm
Along with the people inside
Bb F D Gm Cm Bb D
What a wonderful caricature of intimacy
Gm Bb F D Gm Cm Bb D
Inside, what a wonderful caricature of intimacy
D
There are no
[Nails for Breakfast, Tacks for Snacks]
Dm F
Prescribed pills
Bb
To offset the shakes
Gm
To offset the pills
Dm
You know you should take
F Bb Gm
It a day at a time
Dm F
Prescribed pills
Bb
To offset the shakes
Gm
To offset the pills
Dm
You know you should take
F Bb Gm
It a day at a time
Am Gm Am Gm
time
[But It's Better If You Do]
Am F E
Now I'm of consenting age to be forgetting you in a cabaret
Am F E
Somewhere downtown where a burlesque queen may even ask my name
Am
As she sheds her skin on stage
F E Am
I'm seated and sweating to a dance song on the club's P.A.
F
The strip joint veteran sits two away
E F E Dm
Smirking between dignified sips of his dignified peach and lime daiquiri
[I Write Sins Not Tragedies]
Am
I chime in with a
F Dm G Am
"Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?"
F Dm
No, it's much better to face these kinds of things
G
With a sense of poise and rationality
Am
I chime in
F Dm G Am
"Haven't you people ever heard of closing the goddamn door?"
F Dm
No, it's much better to face these kinds of things
[Time to Dance]
Dm
Have some composure
Am
Where is your posture?
Bb
Oh, no, no
Am
You're pulling the trigger
F
Pulling the trigger
Gm
All wrong
Dm
Have some composure
Am
Where is your posture?
Bb
Oh, no, no
Am
You're pulling the trigger
F
Pulling the trigger
Gm Am Gm Am Gm
All wrong
[Lying is the Most Fun a Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off]
Am G
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls
F
Will you dance to this beat
E
And hold a lover close?
Am G
So testosterone boys and harlequin girls
F
Will you dance to this beat
E
And hold a lover close?
[The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage]
E Gbm
Swear to shake it up, if you swear to listen
D A E
Oh, we're still so young, desperate for attention
D E Gbm
I aim to be your eyes, trophy boys, trophy wives
E Gbm
Swear to shake it up, if you swear to listen
D A E
Oh, we're still so young, desperate for attention
D E Am D Em
I aim to be, your eyes
[There's a Good Reason These Tables Are Numbered Honey, You Just Haven't Thought of it Yet]
Em D G
And I know, and I know It just doesn't feel like a night out
C
With no one sizing you up
Am B
I've never been so surreptitious,
Em
So of course you'll be distracted when I spike the punch
Em D G
And I know, and I know It just doesn't feel like a night out
C
With no one sizing you up
Am B
I've never been so surreptitious,
Em Em
So of course you'll be distracted when I spike the punch
