F#m A
Sit tight I'm gonna need you to keep time
D
Come on just snap snap snap your fingers for me
F#m A
Good good now we're making some progress
D
Come on just tap tap tap your toes to the beat
A D E F#m
And I believe this may call for a proper introduction and
A D E Well Don't you see I'm the narrator and this is just the
prologue
E F#m
Swear to shake it up if you swear to listen
D A
Oh we're still so young desperate for attention
D E F#m
I aim to be your eyes trophy boys trophy wives
E F#m
Swear to shake it up if you swear to listen
D A
Oh we're still so young desperate for attention
D E E
I aim to be your eyes
Bm
This is the scent of dead skin on the linoleum floor
G
This is the scent of quarentine wings in a hospital
D
It's not so pleasant and it's not so conventional
Em A
It sure as hell ain't normal but we deal we deal
Bm
The anesthetic never set in and I'm wondering when
G
The apathy and urgency is that I thought I phoned in
D
It's not so pleasant and it's not so conventional
Em A
It sure as hell ain't normal but we deal we deal
D
You're a regular decorated emergency
D
You're a regular decorated emergency
G A Bm
Can't take the kid from the fight take the fight from the kid
Bm
Sit back relapse sit back relapse again
G A Bm
Can't take the kid from the fight take the fight from the kid
Em
Just sit back just sit back
G F#m
Sit back sit back relax relapse
Em D G
Sit back sit back ba ba ba da da
A Em
You can't take the kid out of the fight
Bm D
The I V and your hospital bed
G Em A
This was no accident this was a therapeudic chain of events
Am F
Now I'm of consenting age to be forgetting you in a cabaret
F
Somewhere downtown where a burlesque queen may even ask my name
Am. F
As she sheds her skin on stage
Am
I'm seated and sweating to a dance song on the club's P A
Am. F
The strip joint veteran sits two away
Dm
Smirking between dignified sips of his dignified peach and
Am (Strum Twice)
lime daiquiri
Am. F
And isn't this exactly where you'd like me
Am. F
I'm exactly where you'd like me you know
Am. F. C. Dm
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Am. F
Oh isn't this exactly where you'd like me
Am. F
I'm exactly where you'd like me you know
Am. F. C. Dm
Praying for love in a lap dance and paying in naivety
Am. F
Well I'm afraid that I
Am.
Well that's right well I may have faked it
F. C. Dm
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place
Am. F
Well I'm afraid that I
Am.
Well that's right well I may have faked it
F. C. Dm (Strum Once)
And I wouldn't be caught dead in this place
F#m
Badadada
Badadada ah ah ah
Badadada
Badadada dadadada