album version - MENTAL ILLNESS
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Capo on the second fret
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[INTRO]
Am Em C
Am Em C


[VERSE 1]
     G              Cmaj7        Em
They served you champagne like a hero
         G              C               Em
When you landed someone carried your bag
     G           C              Em
From here on out you're patient zero
         G             Cmaj7        Em
Smelling ether as they hand you the rag


[CHORUS]
C/G     G
Life is good
    D
You look around and think I'm in the 
C/G           G         D
Right neighborhood, but honey you just moved in
C/G     G
Life is grand
    D                            Am Em C 
And wouldn't you like to have it go as planned
Am Em C      Cmaj7
Go as planned


[VERSE 2]
G           Cmaj7         Em
Hip hip hooray, hocus pocus
          G             Cmaj7           Em
With some magic you can fly through the air 
     G              Cmaj7       Em
But when you're the guy pulling focus
          G               C                     Em
There are people who will wish you weren't there


[CHORUS]
C/G     G
Life is good
    D
You look around and think I'm in the
C/G           G         D
Right neighborhood, but honey you just moved in
C/G     G
Life is grand
    D                            Am Em Cmaj7
And wouldn't you like to have it go as planned
Am Em Cmaj7
Go as planned


[BRIDGE]
   D
Go west young man, go west
                   Am
Take a real screen test, doesn't count as a job well done
    D
The locusts had their day, the suckers pay and pay
Am                                                
Carmen Sternwood probably pulled that trigger for fun
           Em          Cmaj7
And in the hills where hope is such a 
Am          Em      Cmaj7
Constant companion, constant companion 
Am     Em       Cmaj7            Am            Em
Close enough to almost touCh the lights of the canyon
Cmaj7                     Am            Em
Lights of the canyon, the lights of the canyon


[VERSE 3]
    G             C        Em
The news filtered over the transom
       G             Cmaj7         Em
That a villain ended up   with the part
    G           Cmaj7         Em
You paid your respects like a ransom
     G               Cmaj7           Em
To a moment that was doomed from the start


[CHORUS]
C/G     G
Life is good
    D
You look around and think I'm in the
C/G           G         D
Right neighborhood, but honey you don't belong
C/G     G
Life is grand
    D                            Am Em Cmaj7
And wouldn't you like to have it go as planned
Am Em Cmaj7
Go as planned


[OUTRO]
Am         Em          Cmaj7
And in the hills where hope is such a 
Am          Em      Cmaj7
Constant companion, constant companion 
Am     Em       Cmaj7            Am            Em
Close enough to almost touch the lights of the canyon
Cmaj7                     Am            Em
Lights of the canyon, the lights of the canyon
Cmaj7                     Am            Em
Lights of the canyon, the lights of the canyon
Cmaj7                     Am            Em     Cmaj7
Lights of the canyon, the lights of the canyon
    Am            Em      C
The lights of the canyon