F#mDmaj7
Sit tight, I'm going to need you to keep time
EDmaj7F#m
Come on, just snap, snap, snap your fingers for me
Dmaj7
Good, good, now we're making some progress
EDmaj7F#m
Come on, just tap, tap, tap your toes to the beat
[Pre-Chorus]
(F#m) Dmaj7EDmaj7F#m
And I believe this may call for a proper introduction, and well
Dmaj7EDmaj7
Don't you see? I'm the narrator, and this is just the prologue
[Chorus]
EF#
Swear to shake it up, if you swear to listen
DAE
Oh, we're still so young, desperate for attention
F#EF#E
I aim to be your eyes, trophy boys, trophy wives
EF#
Swear to shake it up, if you swear to listen
DAE
Oh, we're still so young, desperate for attention
F#EF#E
I aim to be your eyes- [fades out]
[Camisado] - Key of [Bm]
[Verse 1]
Bm
This is the scent of dead skin on a linoleum floor
D
This is the scent of quarantine wings in a hospital
G
(It's not so pleasant and it's not so conventional)
EmA
It sure as hell ain't normal but we deal, we deal
Bm
The anesthetic never set in and I'm wondering where
D
The apathy and urgency is that I thought I phoned in
G
(It's not so pleasant and it's not so conventional)
EmA
And it sure as hell ain't normal but we deal, we deal
[Bridge]
D
You're a regular decorated emergency
D
You're a regular decorated emergency [high note]
[Chorus]
GABm
Can't take the kid from the fight, take the fight from the kid
Bm
Sit back, relax, sit back, relapse again
GABm
Can't take the kid from the fight, take the fight from the kid
Bm
Just sit back, just sit back
[Bridge]
GF#m
Sit back, sit back, relax, relapse
EmDG
Sit back, sit back, ba ba ba da oh-
ABmBm/D
You can't take the kid out of the fight...
[Outro]
BmD
The I.V. and your hospital bed
G
This was no accident
EmA
This was a therapeutic chain of events
[But It's Better If You Do] - Key of [Am}
[Verse 1]
Am
Now I'm of consenting age
GFAm
To be forgetting you in a cabaret somewhere
Downtown where a burlesque queen
GF
May even ask my name
Am
As she sheds her skin on stage
GF
I'm seated and sweating to a dance song
Am
On the club's P.A
G
The strip joint veteran sits two away
F
Smirking between dignified sips of his dignified
Dm Dm Em F x2
Peach and lime... daiquiri
[Chorus]
AmCF
And isn't this exactly where you'd like me?
DmF
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
EmG#dim
Praying for love in a lap dance
G#dim
And paying in naivety?
AmCF
Oh, isn't this exactly where you'd like me?
DmF
I'm exactly where you'd like me, you know
EmDm
Praying for love in a lap dance - woahh..
[Interlude]
AmF#mGF
[Bridge](heavy swing drums)
Am
But I'm afraid that I
GF
Well, I may have faked it
AmG
And I wouldn't be caught dead
F
D-dead, d-dead, d-dead in this place
Am
Well, I'm afraid that I
G
Well, that's right
F
Well, I may have faked it
AmG
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place
[The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage] - Key of [F#m}
[Bridge]
F#mDE
(Swear to shake it up, you swear to listen
F#mAE
Swear to shake it up, you swear to listen
F#mDE
Swear to shake it up, you swear to listen
F#mE
Swear to shake it up, swear to shake it up)
[Outro]
F#m
La-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da, da-da-da
F#m
La-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da
F#m
La-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da, da-da-da
F#m
La-da-da-da, da-da-da-da-da
F#m (ring out guitar)