Intro: B F# Abm Ebm E B F# F# 

Verse:  
B                     F# 
It's Christmas Day in gay Paris 
Abm            Ebm 
Not so gay for Galen Z. 
E                 B 
Sixteen hours in a sweaty kitchen 
F#        
For money that makes minimum wage look good. 

B          F# 
6 a.m. on the subway 
Abm                   Ebm 
Stop station, through the doorway 
E                           B 
Crowds of people standing, yelling, screaming 
F# 
"What's going on? I must be dreaming." 


[Refrão]
 
Abm 
And the city forgets 
Ebm 
They didn't even perceive 
Abm 
And the trains keep blowing up 
C#5        E 
week after week. 

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Verse:  
B                  F# 
Franzel's traveled wide and far 
Abm           Ebm 
Back from the U.S.S.R. 
E                      B 
Went there to pursue a lifelong calling 
F# 
You found only numb toes and helpless longing. 

B                  F# 
Now you're back at home today 
Abm             Ebm 
Back in the old USA. 
E                         B 
Scoop up handfuls of your native dust  
F# 
And cross the country in a Greyhound bus. 


[Refrão]

Abm  
Another failed attempt 
Ebm 
It's no use trying to pretend 
Abm 
Now you're right back  
C#5          E 
where you started again. 

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Bridge:  

B G 

Abm   B                F#  
I saw what's wrong but I didn't see how 
Abm    E  
I saw, I saw 
B                  F# 
We're all grown up now. 

Verse: 
B                F# 
Today's your twentieth birthday 
Abm                Ebm 
Alone you walk the banks of Maine 
E                             B 
As time runs out to write the second verse of 
F#          
The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock. 

B                 F# 
While you're gone we'll be here still 
Abm               Ebm 
Just beyond those distant hills 
E                          B 
Could be that you got the upper hand 
F# 
When you left this rustic never-never land. 

Chorus: 
Abm 
And my breathing constricts 
Ebm 
I feel the walls closing in 
Abm 
Could it be that finally we're all 
C#5           E 
Shedding some skin. 

REPEAT INTRO