Key: A
Introduction:
Ab Fm
Ab Fm
Ab
A band trip dance - what could be the harm,
Fm
but a six week vacation from the use of my right arm?
Fm
Alex hitting the switch and me hitting the floor.
C# Fm Bbm Fm
We're taking this lying down.
Bbm Fm C
The one thing I can stand up for is resting supine on the ground.
C# Fm Bbm Fm
Mr. McDermott, won't you help me to my feet?
Bbm Fm C Ab
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# Fm Bbm Fm
Some girls will tell their secrets to anyone.
Bbm Fm C
The word "love" gets thrown around a lot near graduation,
C# Fm Bbm Fm
so please don't whisper sweet nothings in my ear
Bbm Fm C C# Ab
when the sound of shredding vocal chords is what I want to hear,
Eb E
because we're going to San Francisco and I forget to wear some flowers in my hair.
Part II
C G F C
She's got a secret surname that nobody knows
C G F C
with the most gorgeous hyphen (you wouldn't believe the way it glows)
Am C F G
and I'm the only one who gets to see it way up close,
F G
so the rest of you can stick it up your nose.
C G F C
Last night, I had the strangest dream that I have ever known -
C G F C
my mother, in a fit of rage, chases me from our home.
Am C F G
My mother, the murderer holds me down in the road.
F Ab
She's got the nail clippers at my throat.
Ab Fm C#
Solo I: x2
Ab Fm
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,
Ab Fm
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.
Ab Fm
Jesus Christ is suffering upon his cross tonight.
C# Eb Ab Fm
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.
Solo II: x2