When used for piano: play chords backwards, note by note (e.g. E chord: B, Ab, E)
This song is about strippers.
Take as you will.

intro: E Abm A Am

E (022100@1)                      Abm (133111@4)           AAm
Your bicycle's chained to the fence outside
        E (022100@1)                   Abm (133111@4)     A (x02220@1)  Am (x02210@1)     
There's plenty of offers, but you won't ride
        E (022100@1)                 A (x02220@1)              C#A  
How you pedal in those is a miracle, miracle
         E (022100@1)                     AbmAnd (133111@4)you laugh at yourself as you speed 
                       AF#
Through the red lights

D (xx0232@1) AOh, (x02220@1)Berlin
D (xx0232@1)                       ANobody (x02220@1)knows where you've been
       E (022100@1)                             Abm (133111@4)        AAm     
In the space where your brain and your heart collide
       E (022100@1)                           Abm (133111@4)              A (x02220@1)  Am (x02210@1)    
You're convinced there's a practical place that you can hide
        E (022100@1)          A (x02220@1)          
And you laugh at the bellhop
C# (x43121@1)         AHysterical, (x02220@1)hysterical
          E (022100@1)                     Abm (133111@4)            AF#   
With your bag full of dresses and butcher's knives
D (xx0232@1) AOh, (x02220@1)Berlin
D (xx0232@1)                       ANobody (x02220@1)knows where you've been

C#m (x13321@4)            
But they all look so ugly and mean when you're sober
       AYou've (x02220@1)auctioned away all your crimson and clover
     F#When (244322@1)Ronnie leaves lines out and lights up the curtain
    AmYou (x02210@1)know what you're doing, you know it for certain
    C#mThe (x13321@4)last thing I saw, they were reading your rights
          AIf (x02220@1)you're gonna go down, then you're going down fighting
   F#As (244322@1)long as you're bent

And as long as they're watching
       AmYou're (x02210@1)gonna make rent
        F# (244322@1)             EA
You got no other option

C#mWhat? (x13321@4)                       A (x02220@1)   F# (244322@1)F#mDid (244222@1)you think you were worth my while?
                      C#m (x13321@4) A (x02220@1)F# (244322@1)Did you think I would cramp my style?
                C#mA  F#That (244322@1)if I had a say in it
                      C#m (x13321@4)A (x02220@1)E (022100@1)     AThat (x02220@1)I'd sit here and bite my lip and listen

C#mWhat? (x13321@4)(What?)
                    A (x02220@1)  F# (244322@1)F#m (244222@1)
Do you think that I come off bored?
                 C#mA  F# (244322@1)
Paid a fortune to be ignored?
                     C#m (x13321@4)A (x02220@1)  F#Did (244322@1)you think that I come here out
                  C#mA   F#of (244322@1)the goodness of my own heart

A (x02220@1)         F# (244322@1)           A (x02220@1)
To work on an assembly line of broken hearts?
F# (244322@1)            A (x02220@1)            F# (244322@1)               ANot (x02220@1)supposed to fix them, only strip and sell the parts

C#mA   F# (244322@1)         C#mA   F#Oh, (244322@1)oh, oh           Oh, oh, oh oh oh

(same as before)
It's hard to work
On an assembly line of broken hearts
Not supposed to fix them, only strip and sell the parts

(same as intro)
Your bicycle's chained to the fence outside
There's plenty of offers, but you won't ride
How you pedal in those is a miracle
A miracle

And you laugh at yourself
As you speed through the red lights