Intro: G5 G5 C5 D5 G5 Well I woke in mid-afternoon cause that's when it all hurts the most G5 C5 D5 G5 I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the host B5 C5 G5 If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts D5 C5 G5 You can never escape, you can only move south down the coast G5 C5 D5 G5 well, I am an idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame G5 C5 D5 G5 I am an acrobat swinging trapezes through circles of flame B5 C5 G5 If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame D5 and though I'll never forget your face, C5 G5 sometimes i can't remember my name B5 C5 G5 D5 Hey Mrs. Potter don't cry Hey Mrs. Potter I know why but B5 C5 G5 D5 C5 C5 G5 Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me G5 C5 D5 G5 Well, there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing G5 C5 D5 G5 And the price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings B5 C5 G5 And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to ring D5 C5 G5 And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything G5 C5 D5 G5 Or the elephants will get out and forget to remember what you said G5 C5 D5 G5 And the ghosts of the childer world will linger inside your head B5 C5 G5 And the ferris wheel junkies will spin there forever instead D5 C5 G5 When I see you a blanket of stars covers me in my bed B5 C5 G5 D5 Hey Mrs. Potter don't go Hey Mrs. Potter I don't know but B5 C5 G5 D5 C5 C5 G5 Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me G5 C5 D5 G5 All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep G5 C5 D5 G5 And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep B5 C5 G5 All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep D5 C5 G5 Hey I can bleed as well as anyone, but I need someone to help me sleep G5 C5 D5 G5 So I throw my hand into the air and it swims in the beams G5 C5 D5 G5 It's just a brief interruption of the swirling dust sparkle jet stream B5 C5 G5 Well, I know I don't know you and you're probably not what you seem D5 But I'd sure like to find out C5 G5 So why don't you climb down off that movie screen B5 C5 G5 D5 Hey Mrs. Potter don't turn Hey Mrs. Potter I burn for you B5 C5 G5 D5 C5 C5 G5 Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me G5 C5 D5 G5 When the last king of Hollywood shatters his glass on the floor G5 D5 and orders another E5 D5 B5 Well, I wonder what he did that for B5 C5 G5 That's when I know that I have to get out cause I have been there before D5 C5 G5 So I gave up my seat at the bar and I head for the door G5 C5 D5 G5 We drove out to the desert just to lie down beneath this bowl of stars G5 C5 D5 G5 We stand up in the palace like it's the last of the great pioneer town bars B5 C5 G5 We shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitars D5 C5 G5 You can see a million miles tonight But you can't get very far D5 C5 G5 Oh, you can see a million miles tonight But you can't get very far B5 C5 G5 D5 Hey Mrs. Potter I won't touch Hey Mrs. Potter it's not much but B5 C5 G5 D5 C5 C5 G5 Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me
