Key: E major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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F#m
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"It's like a makeover when the filming's over and she doesn't know how to fix it so that it'll stay,
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and she can't figure out how to tease out her hair that way herself.
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F#m
And when she wakes up all the make-up has has rubbed
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away and she doesn't know how to find her face.
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It was only for one single day that
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you looked so beautiful, baby.
Verse 2
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Now your cheeks have gone pale,
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and your roots dark gray.
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And though they nod as they notice you're nice,
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baby, nobody's noticing twice.
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of paradise fades.
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I'm like an architect who cashed his check,
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but he doesn't let on that it's the last one he'll get.
Verse 3
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Though he knows the funds have run dry,
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he wants to have fun for one final night,
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Bm
Staring out at a skyline that he'll
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They're saying 'though we like all things that you've made,
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notice no one remembers your name.
Em
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As you float through time, feel your powers decline day by
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day.'
Verse 4
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You're like a convert who goes back to work when he can't retrieve how the clarity
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actually felt. When his co-workers ask ask him the words won't come out.
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F#m
And in three weeks his new leaf has rubbed away
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G
and it feels just like an average day:
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Facing walls talking in to the phone,
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sitting dumbly in church all alone,
Verse 5
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Well, convert, what your god whispered in to your
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ear you forgot once that god disappeared,
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you just felt it fade.
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But, you know, it's got to fade. You know it's got
Outro 1
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G
D
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D
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F#m
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