transcribed by Ben Whitlock

E5

E5                    Eb5       A5
I kinda like the way you dot your "J"s
     C#5   Ab5    C#5      Ab5
With giant circles    of na?vet?
    C#5     Ab5     E5       A5    B5
The kind of circles include everything
E5                           Eb5      A5
Don't mean to damn you with the faintest praise
     C#5    Ab5    C#5        Ab5
It's just a symptom    of the blithe age
C#5    Ab5       E5        A5   B5
Walter Lippmann, he would be amazed.
Ab5                     F#5
So you've got some curb appeal
Ab5                             F#5
But can you cook a three course meal?
Ab5                       F#5                         B5
Or are you just a present waiting to be opened up and parceled out again? Hey!

Interlude B riff:
e | -4-2-0-4-2-0-etc.---- | 
B | --------------------- | 

A5   Ab5   F#5   E5
You are a gardenia, pressed
A5      Ab5      F#5     B5
in the campaign journal in the 
A5        Ab5   F#5 E5
rucksack of an Afrikaner 
A5    Ab5      F#5    B5
candidate for mild reform.

E5                      Eb5    A5
It's like we're at a Ponzi scam-inar
        C#5     Ab5  C#5           Ab5
There's no escaping      without a door prize
C#5         Ab5   E5      A5       B5         
They're operating at significant loss.
E5                    Eb5        A5
And now the way that you watch your weight,
C#5     Ab5      C#5          Ab5      C#5
Richard Avedon,       Richard Avedon would,
        Ab5    E5         A5    B5
Richard Avedon would surely approve.
Ab5                     F#5
So much for your curb appeal.
Ab5                          F#5
So much for the three course meals.
Ab5                       F#5                         B5
'Cause I am not a present waiting to be opened up and parceled out again. Hey!



A5   Ab5     F#5     E5
The torture of the Van Wyk 
A5     Ab5     F#5  B5
Expressway at 5  p.m. on 
A5      Ab5       F#5    E5 
Friday gives you some idea of 
A5     Ab5     F#5      B5 
how rejection makes me feel.
A5        Ab5   F#5    E5     A5  Ab5  F#5  B5
Well you are a gardenia,
A5   Ab5   F#5   E5     A5  Ab5  F#5  B5       E5
You are a gardenia.