transcribed by Ben Whitlock (whitty_bdbATyahoo.com)

E5

Emaj7                    Ebm       A
I kinda like the way you dot your "J"s
     C#m   Abm    C#m      Abm
With giant circles    of naïveté
    C#m     Abm     E       A    B
The kind of circles include everything
Emaj7                           Ebm      A
Don't mean to damn you with the faintest praise
     C#m    Abm    C#m        Abm
It's just a symptom    of the blithe age
C#m    Abm       E        A   B
Walter Lippmann, he would be amazed.
Abm                     F#m
So you've got some curb appeal
Abm                             F#m
But can you cook a three course meal?
Abm                       F#m                         B
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|---------------------|

A   Abm   F#m   E
You are a gardenia, pressed
A      Abm      F#m     B
in the campaign journal in the 
A        Abm   F#m E
rucksack of an Afrikaner 
A    Abm      F#m    B
candidate for mild reform.

Emaj7                      Ebm    A
It's like we're at a Ponzi scam-inar
        C#m     Abm  C#m           Abm
There's no escaping      without a door prize
C#m         Abm   E      A       B         
They're operating at significant loss.
Emaj7                    Ebm        A
And now the way that you watch your weight,
C#m     Abm      C#m          Abm      C#m
Richard Avedon,       Richard Avedon would,
        Abm    E         A    B
Richard Avedon would surely approve.
Abm                     F#m
So much for your curb appeal.
Abm                          F#m
So much for the three course meals.
Abm                       F#m                         B
'Cause I am not a present waiting to be opened up and parceled out again. Hey!

<B riff>

A   Abm     F#m     E
The torture of the Van Wyk 
A     Abm     F#m  B
Expressway at 5  p.m. on 
A      Abm       F#m    E 
Friday gives you some idea of 
A     Abm     F#m      B 
how rejection makes me feel.
A        Abm   F#m    E     A  Abm  F#m  B
Well you are a gardenia,
A   Abm   F#m   E     A  Abm  F#m  B       E
You are a gardenia.