These lead lines are played over the chords throughout most of the song: e | ---------------------------------------------- | B | ---------------------------------------------- | G | --11-11--14-11-9~----------------------------- | D | ----------------------------11-11--14-11-(b9)7~- | A | ---------------------------------------------- | E | ---------------------------------------------- | A F#m D Ragged robbins for the curtain call A F#m D Wrapped in ribbons on the trailer door A F#m D Carved initials in a concrete footstall A F#m D On the imitation marble floor A F#m D We're the boxtop admissions and their throwaways, A F#m D Strewn across tobacco roads A F#m D With their wormwood shots and their snake oil plots A F#m D Drunk sheepshank con men and their sycophants A F#m D And I A F#m D I often wonder if I've already died [GUITAR DROPS OUT; Only bass/drums play for a frame] A F#m D Out at elbows by the encore A F#m D But there's a citadel inside A F#m D Where I'll go and shape my heart like yours, A F#m D As you shape yours like mine A F#m D Where we're the spiraling arms of all galaxies A F#m D And we're the microscopic sand A F#m D Suffering from delusions of ungrandeur on middling display A F#m D A F#m D Beside the Cardiff giant with the alabaster eyes A F#m D A F#m D I often wonder if I've already died A F#m D I often wonder if I've already died, [BRIDGE]: repeat 4x A Or if the 'I' A if the 'I' A D is an unintelligible lie [OUTRO]: A Off we flew like swarms of hornets F#m D 'Woken up' from winter's rest A To colonize with plastic pulp F#m D Our neighbor's perfect paper nest A While all year round potter wasp F#m D Has buzzed her unhinged song A You can hear its creaking in our floorboards F#m D Megalomania's only mania if you're wrong A , F#m , D x2 A (strummed a few times during the instrumental outro) A : e--- F#m : e-2- D : e-2- B | -2- | B | -2- | B | -3- | G | -2- | G | -2- | G | -2- | D | -2- | D | -4- | D | -0- | A | -0- | A | -4- | A | --- | E | --- | E | -2- | E | --- |
