E B E B
[Verse 1]
E B G#m
It's like a makeover when the filming's over and she doesn't know
E B A
how to fix it so that it'll stay,
E B
and she can't figure out how to tease out her hair that way herself.
E B G#m
And when she wakes up all the make-up has rubbed away
E B A
and she doesn't know how to find her face.
A E B
It was only for one single day
A E B
that you looked so beautiful, baby.
A E B
Now your cheeks have gone pale, and your roots dark gray.
A E B
And though they nod as they notice you're nice,
A E B
baby, nobody's noticing twice.
A E B
Dim the lights as your memory of paradise fades.
[Verse 2]
E B G#m
I'm like an architect who cashed his check, but he doesn't let
E B A
on that it's the last one he'll get.
E B
Though he knows the funds have run dry,
A E B
he wants to have fun for one final night,
A E B
staring out at a skyline that he'll never change.
A E B
They're saying, 'though we like all the things that you've made,
A E B
notice no one remembers your name.
F#m A B E
As you float through time, feel your powers decline day by day.
E B G#m
E B A
E B B
[Verse 3]
E B G#m
You're like a convert who goes back to work when he can't retrieve
E B A
how the clarity actually felt.
E B
When his coworkers ask him the words won't come out.
E B G#m
And in three weeks his new leaf has blown away
E B A
and it feels just like an average day:
E B
facing walls talking into the phone,
A E B
sitting dumbly in church all alone,
A E B
picking back up the magazines he'd thrown away.
A E B
Well, convert, what your god whispered into your ear
A E B
you forgot once that god disappeared,
A E B
and that life-changing day, you just felt it fade.
F#m
You know it's got to fade, yeah,
A B
you know it's got to fade, oh, you know it's got to fade, and,
A B E
falling down on the couch, he says, it's perfectly that way.
