Key: A minor
Verse 1
And our silver tongued obsessions come at
Us out of the dark
Scrambling to be recog
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Bm
nised before
Tearing themselves apart
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It's zen and the art of Bollywood
Heroes turning on a spit
The lovers unable to resolve
A pre-historic bitch
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bitch
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Bm
We don't know the half of it
Clever is as clever does
His drawn lights sparkling
On a merry-go-round
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Bm
Hypnotising Hypnotising
Hypnotising everyone on it
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Bm
D
Bm
In zen and the art of forgery
We're losing control of
light
DeLorean, Picasso
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A
Bm
Mondriaan and El Greco some one's
Gonna pay the price
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C
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F#m
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C
If I didn't
know you better than that
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I'd never let you
Verse 2
A
D
Bm
Where is the art of sorcery
We wanna be fooled again
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Bm
Into submission helpless
as a deck of cards
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D
A
It's now the art of reality
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facing the obvious
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A
A monkey and his grinder
Verse 3
from day to day
As clearly as I see tonite
Keep talking said the slow-eyed
Mandarin
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Mandarin
"I've got nothing to say"
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Bm
D
Meet me on the staircase on
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A
Whatever thrives inside the dark
Outro 1
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