Key: G5 , C5
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Intro: Em- - C- - D- - E5 - C-
Verse 1:
E5
Getting mixed up
with another girl
C5
As I drag her by
the hair to the floor
D5
Keep letting her drown under
E5 C5
My broken glass finger holes
E5
Holy ghost the electric hoax
C5
Blinded by the garden we go
D5
I don't see how they can
E5 C5
Keep smiling anymore
Refrain 1:
D5 C5
Last time I had all four
G5
The look and the punch
D5
And the game and the score
How come they never
B5
leave me alone
Chorus 1:
C5
They won't take
A5 E5
that chance on me
C5
You wanted me to talk
A5 E5
Well I'm on my knees
C5
I never claimed
D5 E5
to be anything
F5 G5
Being Caroline Mescaline
F5 G5
"Heroin's heroine"
F5 G5
She knows it's got nothing
A5
To do with her now
Verse 2:
E5
Goodbye sound another
downtown frown
C5
And we're tainted
in the twitch of an eye
D5
When we're
beyond any doubt
E5 C5
It'll come back to me
E5
When crystal's clean
The subtraction queen
C5
We dream up a connection girl
D5
Oh if she's like me
I know she'll be
E5 C5
back again I hope
Refrain 2:
D5
She tries to fake
C5
into the night
G5
And bleed to
D5
agree alright
It's too late girl
B5
I'm much to bright
Chorus 2:
C5
They won't take
A5 E5
that chance on me
C5
You wanted me to talk
A5 E5
Well I'm on my knees
C5
I never claimed
D5 E5
to be anything
F5 G5
Being Caroline Mescaline
F5 G5
"Heroin's heroine"
F5 G5
She knows it's got nothing
A5 F5
To do with her now now
Bridge:
D5
Hey hey hey hey
F5 G5
Hey hey hey
Refrain 3:
D5
You can see why I
C5
act so inspired
G5
Entirely why
would you ask me
C5 B5
Just another rock casualty
Chorus 3:
C5
They won't take
A5 E5
that chance on me
C5
You wanted me to talk
A5 E5
Well I'm on my knees
C5
I never claimed
D5 E5
to be anything
F5 G5
Being Caroline Mescaline
C5
They won't take
A5 E5
that chance on me
C5
You wanted me to talk
A5 E5
Well I'm on my knees
C5
I never claimed
D5 E5
to be anything
F5 G5
Being Caroline Mescaline
F5 G5
"Heroin's heroine"
F5 G5
She knows it's got nothing
Am(hold)
To do with her now now