This song can be played with open chords, but I think that it sounds much better played with barre  
chords. 
Also, if you watch a live performance, The band members play it with barre chords.  


C C C 
Wouldn’t ever gag you with a spoon, my only true love  
C C C 
Never really heard you speak that way, it’s unworthy of…  
C C C 
Funny how that little college girl called language corrupt  
C C C 
Funny how the other private schools had no Hapa Club  

C C C 
Someone took a trip before you came to ski in the Alps  
C C C 
Your father moved across the country just to sunburn his scalp  
C C C 
Contra Costa, Contra Mundum, contradict what I say  
C C C                                              F 
Living like the French Connection, but we’ll die in LA  

Em              G           C                   F 
Blasted from a disconnected light switch  
Em                  G                 C           F 
Through the condo that they’ll never finish  
Em                 G          C              F 
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish  
      Em                  G           C          C C C 
And through your brain to California English  


C C C 
No one sits inside a freezing flat and stays there ‘til May  
C C C 
Leafing through a stack of A-Zs to surf the UK  
C C C 
Waiting with the wind against your face and gel in your hair  
C C C                                               F 
Shivering in little undershirts, but don’t seem to care  

Em              G           C                   F 
Blasted from a disconnected light switch  
Em                  G                 C           F 
Through the condo that they’ll never finish  
Em                 G          C              F 
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish  
      Em                  G           C          C C C 
And through your brain to California English  

G          
Sweet carob rice cake  
           F             C 
She don’t care how the sweets taste  
F               
Fake Philly cheese steak  
             Em      C 
But she use real toothpaste  

F     
Cuz if that Tom’s don’t work  
C 
If it just makes you worse  
F                             G            C 
Would you loose all of your faith in the good earth  

F     
And if it’s all a curse  
C 
And we’re just getting worse  
F                            G                C 
Baby, please don’t lose your faith in the good earth  

Em              G           C                   F 
Blasted from a disconnected light switch  
Em                  G                 C           F 
Through the condo that they’ll never finish  
Em                 G          C              F 
Bounced across a Saudi satellite dish  
      Em                  G           C          C C C 
And through your brain to California English