Capo on 7th

Intro: G C9 G C9 Em D/F# G

    G                  C9            G            C9           D/F# 
Mailboxes drip like lampposts in the twisted birth canal of the coliseum
   C9                          D/F#
Rim job fairy teapots mask the temper tantrum
                  G
O' say can you see 'em
    C                                     D/F#
Stuffed cabbage is the darling of the Laundromat
          G                             C9
'N the sorority mascot sat with the lumberjack
    C9          C/B               Am          G               D/F#
Pressing passing stinging half synthetic fabrication of his-- Time
      G                C9    G                C9         D/F#
The mouse with the overbite explained how the rabbits were ensnared
         C9                             Em
'N the skinny scanty sylph trashed the apothecary diplomat
  Am                                                 D/F#       G
Inside the three-eyed monkey within inches of his toaster oven life

       Em      C
In my mind
           G
I'm half blind
       Em      C
My inner ref
           G
Is mostly deaf
           Em         C
I'm smell impaired
         G
If you cared
     G                 C9          G             C9
My sense of taste is wasted on the phosphorescent orange peels of San 
   G       C9          D/F#
Francisco axe-encrusted frenzy

            G
So let me touch you
         D/F#
Let me touch you
         G
Let me touch you
         C
Let me touch you
          G        D/F#       G   
Where the Ro-yal Jelly gets made

Transition: G C9 Em C9 Em D/F# G


G      C9                 G               C9
Coleratura singers bringing weeds and social clingers
        G            C9
Hangers-on and fancy flingers
         D/F#
To the dress ball
C9
Mushrooms and bowling pins
C/B                                D/F#
Stove pipe hats and other things I can't recall
              G
From Juvenile hall
C9                D/F#
We're so unlucky and stuff
G                              C9                              
Woodrow Wilson never had it so tough
C9           C/B          Am
Dairy Queen and Vaseline and Maybelline
G               D/F#
Paul Bunyan and James Dean

G        C9           G          C9
Allegory agencies of pre-Raphaelite paganry
G              C9
And Shenandoah tapestries
G                  C9
Compared with good mahogany
G              C9            D/F#
Collapsing the undying postcard romance
C
With feline perspicacity
C/B
By the university
Am
That night I held a paucity
Am
Which you deemed common courtesy
Am/G
I wasn't what you thought I'd be
D/F#                            G
I shouldn't have invited you to dance

      Em      C
In my tree
            G
I'm halfway free
          Em      C
And in my chair
            G
One quarter there
      Em      C
In my dream

              G
One-sixteenth cream
G                    C9
In the coffee of the Courtier
       G         Cadd             D/F#
Of the sycophant assistant to the king

          G
So let me touch you
       D/F#
Let me touch you
       G
Let me touch you
       C9
Let me touch you

           G  D/F#    Em    C9  G       D/F#    G       
Where the Ro  -  -  -  -  -  -  -  yal Jelly gets made
G C9  G  C9  Em   D/F#   G...
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