Key: E minor
Intro 1
E
Em
F
C
Em
B
F
C
Em
F
C
Em
F
C
Verse 1
Em
F
C
We were the French club dropouts
Em
F
But we never got excused
Em
F
C
The secretary must have been high
C
F
C
us sneaking out back
Em
C
And we were pregnant on the balcony
Em
F
And you caught me with a cigarette
C
Em
F
C
I never put the thing on my lips
Interlude 1
C
Em
E
F
C
E
Em
F
Verse 2
B
C
G
I was the best at being second place
D
D#
Bb
But now I'm just the runner- up
Ab
F#
Em
At being the second one
A
Bb
F
Before you go back to
Interlude 2
one
Em
F
C
Em
F
C
Verse 3
Em
F
We were the law school rejects
C
Em
B
F
So we quarrelled at the bar instead
C
Em
F
Shot out in four words or less
C
Em
You want a jail, you want a mess,
Em
C
Then we were floating on a balcony
G
F
And I fell into a trampoline
C
Em
F
C
I never should've looked for a hand
G
Bm
From an invisible pushmi- pullyu
Am
F
Verse 4
Em
C
G
I was the best at being second place
D
D#
Bb
But now I'm just the silver you dread
Ab
F#
Em
And only in the shape of a bullet
F
A
Am I ever the shape you see
Bb
F
when you wake up dead
B
G
Verse 5
D
C
So will you cauterize the bleeding
Am
A
Am
I'm the one worth seeing
D
C
As a waif, a friend,
I guess that's the extent
Am
F
you cut inside the paper
B
G
D
To project it from the lighthouse and eject it out in
D#
B
C
G
to the void
Interlude 3
D
D#
Bb
B
C
G
D
D#
Bb
Verse 6
B
C
G
I was the best at being
D
D#
Bb
second place
B
C
G
Oh, I was the best at being
D
D#
Bb
second place
B
C
G
I was the best at being
D
D#
Bb
second place
B
C
G
Oh, I was the best at being
D
D#
Bb
second place
Bm
C
G
I was the best at being second place
D
D#
Bb
But now I'm just the runner- up
Ab
F#
E
And only the second one you
F
Asus4
Bb
think of every day
F
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