Key: E major
Intro 1
F#
A#m
B
C#
D#m
Verse 1
D#m
F#
A#m
Princess cards she sends me,
B
C#
D#m
with her regards
G#m
F#
Oh, barroom eyes shine vacancy
D#m
B
C#
To see her you gotta look hard
F#
A#m
Wounded deep in battle
C#
D#m
soldier undaunted
G#m
F#
To her cheshire smile I'll stand on file
D#m
B
C#
B
A#m
She's all I ever wanted
B
C#
But you let your blue walls get
F#
A#m
in the way of these facts
C#
F#
B
baggers off my back
A#m
B
You wouldn't even give me time
F#
C#
"Here's your mirror and your ball and jack"
F#
C#
But they're not what I came for
F#
C#
And I'm sure you see that too
Verse 2
C#
A#m
G#m
B
I came for you, for you, I came for you
C#
F#
D#m
But you did not need my urgency
C#
B
I came for you, for you, I came for you
F#
D#m
But your life was one long emergency
B
F#
And the cloud line urges me, and my
B
F#
C#
electric surges free
Verse 3
F#
A#m
Climb into my ambulance,
B
C#
D#m
your pulse is getting weak
G#m
F#
Oh, reveal yourself all now to me girl
D#m
B
While you've got the
B
C#
D#m
With their oxygen masks
G#m
F#
D#m
I could give it all to you now if
B
C#
B
A#m
only you could ask
B
C#
But don't call for your surgeon
C#
A#m
It's your heart that holds your fate
A#m
C#
F#
You and your pony face
F#
C#
Didn't you think I knew that you were
A#m
G#m
B
born with the power of a locomot ive
F#
D#m
in a single bound?
C#
F#
D#m
You could laugh an d cry in a single sound,
B
F#
B
oh oh, oh oh
F#
C#
Verse 4
And your strength is devastating in the
B
A#m
face of all these odds
B
C#
it was my turn to be the god?
Verse 5
F#
A#m
You were not quite half too proud when
B
C#
D#m
I found you broken on the beach
G#m
D#m
Oh, remember how I poured salt on your
B
C#
tongue and hung just out of reach?
F#
A#m
And the band they played the homecoming
B
C#
D#m
theme as I caressed your cheek
G#m
D#m
Oh that ragged, jagged melody,
B
C#
B
A#m
she still clings to me like a leach
B
C#
But that medal you wore on your chest
A#m
F#
B
C#
Like a little girl with a trophy so
F#
A#m
soft to buy her way
your ear tuned to the roar
Of some metal- tempered engine on that alien,
distant shore
C#
F#
And now you left to find a better reason
than the one we were living for
And it's not that nursery mouth
I came back for
It's not the way you're stretched
out on the floor
'Cause I've broken all your windows
and I've rammed through all your doors
And who am I to tell you to lick my sore?
And you should see that too
Verse 6
D#m
A#m
I came for you, for you,
G#m
B
I came for you
C#
B
I came for you, for you, I came for you
Outro 1
B
F#
C#
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