Intro: A (x4)
Verse
A
Pardon me sugar I’m the man underneath your thumb
But I won’t take your violence and I won’t chew your bubblegum
A
White heat, indiscreet, any day now obsolete
Though you’ve seen your best days
A
I would still walk down your empty street
D E A
Well you look like salvation but you taste like a refugee
D E A
Well you say you got no soul but you look like you do to me
A
If I was the melody you were the symphony
D E
Honey loving you took the very best of me
A
I don’t need your red wine covered sympathy
D E A
Just another punch line in your stand up tragedy
Verse
A
Well I’ve been pushing up daisies
Just to catch a glimpse of something real
A
When I see you coming
I might just as well give up and kneel
D
Well if you saw me broken
E A
Would you put me out my misery?
D E A
Well I don’t do handsome and you don’t do sympathy
Verse
E A
If I was the melody you were the symphony
D E
Honey loving you took the very best of me
A
I don’t need your red wine covered sympathy
D E
Just another punchline in your stand up tragedy
Bridge
A D C
Wrong from the get go, let it slide
A
Tell them what they don’t know
Sing them praises far and wide
D C
Give those speeches, ring them bells
A
Mama don’t know what she preaches
E
But she sure looks dignified
E
Well she sure looks dignified
E
Well she sure looks dignified
A
If I was the melody you were the symphony
D E
Honey loving you took the very best of me
A
I don’t need your red wine covered sympathy
D E
Just another punchline in your stand up tragedy
Outro
A
Take my hungry guarantee
D E
I could be your slave if you’d only beg for me
A
I don’t need your red wine covered sympathy
D
Just another punchline in your
E
Stand up, sit down, lie back, turn round, play dead for me
E
Stand up tragedy