Intro:
This little riff goes on throughout the song but is audible at the beginning
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Part I:
AbFmAbFmAb
A band trip dance - what could be the harm,
Fm
but a six week vacation from the use of my right arm?
Ab
Just the two hits, I remember nothing more:
Fm
Alex hitting the switch and me hitting the floor.
C#FmBbmFm
We're taking this lying down.
BbmFmC
The one thing I can stand up for is resting supine on the ground.
C#FmBbmFm
Mr. McDermott, won't you help me to my feet?
BbmFmCAb
Because the drumline's going wild in the San Francisco streets.
Ab
The long walk home, an hour and a half,
Fm
quickly turns to three or four with stops at every underpass,
Ab
but by June 22nd, I have done the math.
Fm
That's a hundred and five liters I'll consume of Dr. Path.
C#FmBbmFm
Some girls will tell their secrets to anyone.
BbmFmC
The word 'love' gets thrown around a lot near graduation,
C#FmBbmFm
so please don't whisper sweet nothings in my ear
BbmFmCC#Ab
when the sound of shredding vocal chords is what I want to hear,
EbE
because we're going to San Francisco and I forget to wear some flowers in my hair.
Part II
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CGFC
She's got a secret surname that nobody knows
CGFC
with the most gorgeous hyphen (you wouldn't believe the way it glows)
AmCFG
and I'm the only one who gets to see it way up close,
FG
so the rest of you can stick it up your nose.
CGFC
Last night, I had the strangest dream that I have ever known -
CGFC
my mother, in a fit of rage, chases me from our home.
AmCFG
My mother, the murderer holds me down in the road.
FAb
She's got the nail clippers at my throat.
Part III:
AbAbFmC#
Solo I: x2
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AbFm
Even though things lately may have been real horrorshow,
C#Eb
I'm wishing I was back in utero. I'd like to go back to the way that things were before,
AbFm
but apparently, I'm looking at physical therapy.
C#Eb
It won't be exactly how it used to be. It ain't hard to see that it's not that way, not that way anymore.
AbFm
Jesus Christ is suffering upon his cross tonight.
C#EbAbFm
I just sit outside waiting for frost to bite. 'It's always this way,' she says on her way out the door.
C#Eb
Wait and see. The rest is yet to reveal itself to me.