Intro: D (D/G Dsus)
verse 1:
D A Bm G
Speak of the handsome devil, oh when will I wear you like and hand in a glove?
D A Bm
You smother me, smother me, smother me in Morrissey like all the pretty ones
G
have done before,
D A Bm
And writing songs for you in the backyard of another house show,
G
When all I wanna do is sleep and all my friends wanna do is see me fall,
D A
Watching music television with the sound down,
Bm D
It's technicolor rainbows and I think it's kicking in now,
D A Bm G
And there's more confidential information on mainstream radio stations
D A Bm G
Someone famous just got caught,
D A Bm G
Someone famous just got a divorce
D A
So I walk into my front door and I'm going in swinging,
Bm G
I'm going down drinking like I swore that I wouldn't,
D A
And I'll come in singing and I'll walk out screaming,
Bm G D A Bm G
Cause no one gives a fuck anymore, no one cares about this but you
verse 2
D A
And I need a break from the city again,
Bm G
So I'll play in backwater pubs in no-name towns, pass out in your garden shed,
D A Bm
And last night I slept in the country estate of a pretty girl's parents' in
G
a single bed with my best friend,
D A Bm
And I woke up to air so clean and so fresh that I didn't dare light a
G
cigarette,
D A
As much as I love being near you,
Bm G
My favourite thing to do is to leave
D A Bm G
If you drive me home,
D A Bm G
I would've sat with you by the fire 'til my eyes closed
D Bm A G
I'd be happy, if American Spirit was nothing more than a brand of cigarettes,
D Bm A
And there are no more metaphors, this hunger feels like hunger,
G
A greedy, filthy need from the very pit of me,
D Bm
And am I the only one holding on by skin of my teeth,
A G
But I don't eat meat motherfucker, so I haven't got very strong teeth
D Bm
By the skin of my teeth, by the skin of my teeth,
A G
By the holes in the floor, the water that drips in through the cracks in the ceiling,
D Bm
By the mice in the walls, from the fingernail gash in the doorframe,
A G D Bm A G
From the blackened handprints on the south east facing wall
D Bm A G
Where I sit and I watch the heavy rain fall,
G
Yeah I sit and I watch Smith Street drown