F#        B    C#m      E
what a well educated population
        F#                 B      C#m           E
what socialite would go donate what it takes
         F#              B       E
to own this place for 60 days
      F#           B  Cm C#m        E
in a sophisticated congregation
            F#            B        C#m          E
there’s a collection of a space that puts on
            F#               B   C#m     E
banquets that I have vice-reported on
        F#    B Cm C#m     E  F#
from the balcony   and the wall


[Refrain]
 E                       B                          
           the worst permission slip you can imagine
 E                         B   C#m            E
 wouldn’t gain entrance to anything other than who
               B                          
would dole out all the tickets to imagine
C#m                          E
that don’t go to anything at all


[Verse]
            F#             B        E
good luck ever knowing yourself
             F#              B  Cm   C#m       E
you’re sitting in a room and speaking well
         F#              B     E
reporting on the temperature
             F#            B   C#m       E
fake-deep, non-eloquently, every hour?
             F#        B    E
lost deep inside the MF 
             F#               B Cm C#m      E
ten mental breakdowns we are navigating
          F#               B             C#m        E
i think in all regards i’ve found a welcome home
             F#              B    E
amongst the people made of stone


[Bridge]
F#                 B
       now if you wait in between
              E            F#
what did you say man and what did you mean?
    B                 C#m
whatever it’s just good etiquette
     E          F#
to sink the model ships
         B
a model pirate and a model wave
       E         F#          B
two varieties, oceanic and friendly
        C#m          E     F#
if the news is really great


[Refrain]
E                  B                                E                        
       now if you really think the time is running out to say 

              B       C#m           E
all the great things you thought of to-day
                  B                                  
you’re more than right, you are englightened,
       C#m
knowing that your place is never to fill
E          F#             B
anything at all let alone   space


[Solo]
B    
E    F#  G#m F#
B  Cm  C#m


[Verse]
E                       F#            B       C#m        E
          good luck summationed in a place like this
        F#           B     E
taking ok care of myself


[Refrain]
E
scan the spiral stairs
B
teleport back to the middle of the room
E                                    B               C#m
i can’t give my mind back but i can try to take it back to me
                 E
take it back to     *MUTE!*
N.C.                         E
scanning the spiral stairs and
B    N.C.
teleporting back into the middle of the room

B  C#m    N.C.                   C#m    
I can’t give my my mind back but I can 
E                             F#
try to take it back and i can try to make it work too


[Solo]
B  E  F#
B  C#m  E  F#


[Outro]
B              E     F#     B
      take it back to me
 C#m    E  F#  B
take it baaaaack