Key: E major
Intro 1
D
Bm
E
Bm
G
D
G
Bm
G
A
D
Bm
D
Verse 1
D
Bm
I'm nobody's friend
E
Loneliness rides in my bed
G
My misfortune
F#m
Give everything you've got
D
G
While the sun burns hot
My addiction
A
Spoils my affection
D
For everything good
Verse 2
D
Bm
Elephant in the room
Might as well shoot at the moon
E
G
The mild ambition
D
F#m
D
Give everything you've got
G
Jump the Fosbury flop with intention
A
Pursue your invention
Em
As something of worth
Verse 3
Em
D
The thing I most regret
A
Is having to repress what I'm feeling
Bm
While ex pressing delight
A
G
as a myth
D
Embrace the epic fail
F#m
D
G
Of my ex ploding whale
Interlude 1
G
A
D
Verse 4
D
Bm
Poison or powdered milk (poison or
powdered milk)
E
Paralyzed as it took (paralyzed as
it took)
G
Premonition (what is
going on?)
F#m
D
F#m
Give everything you've got
D
G
Before your life is caught in conditions
A
D
A
D
Be the first of its victims
The foot of a hare
Verse 5
D
Action or consequence (action or
Bm
consequence)
E
My unyielding defense (my un
Em
yielding defense)
E
G
Superstition (what is
going on?)
D
F#m
My attempts to obscure
D
G
The wonders of this world
Be it fortune
A
Or faith in distortion
D
Em
The patron of prayer
Verse 6
Em
D
The thing I most resent
A
Is having to consent to illusion
Bm
A
G
While confessing distress with my fist
Will history prevail?
F#m
My exploding whale
Interlude 2
G
A
Em
D
A
Bm
A
G
D
F#m
G
A
D
Verse 7
D
What of a dream deferred
Bm
My appeal in reverse
D
Bm
Apparition
Verse 8
G
D
Embrace the epic fail
Outro 1
Of my exploding whale
D
Bm
G
D
G
D
G
D
Bm
D
Bm
D
Bm
D
Bm
D
D
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