D                               Em
Hole in my head can't sleep for dreaming
        A                 D
I'll be checking out some day
D                            Em
No shades of red no room for breathing
     A               D
No regrets no hours away
D                          Em
This jukebox won't play no Sinatra
        A                D
It just curses all night long
D                      Em
There's no easy spoken mantra
       A              D
Put me back where I belong
D                             Em
Late night parades a dreamers nightmare
        A                D
And the boys are closing in
D                             Em
She's got no good reason to be there
        A                D
But her choices all seem slim
D                             Em
Well chaos reigns in this old thumb screw
        A                 D
Baffled lines of hers and his

[Chorus]
D                         Em
Oh shangri la why can't I find you
         A     D
And your faded promises?
Gm                   D        Gm             D
I've seen it in your eyes, a wanted man's disguise
      A           G
And a million bad highs
    Gm                   D
The lights have all gone red
    Gm  D
The 4am dread
Gm            D              A             G
Then you made sense like the star that you are
   A       D
Oh shangri la

[Verse]
D                       Em
One vicious love after another
            A                 D
A pointless nose, and shotgun shoes
D                                 Em
Would someone please show me some other
         A                   D
Place to hang these dead boy blues
D                              Em
The landlord won't place me an order
              A                   D
Well he don't think that I should sleep

[Chorus]
D                             Em
His wife just sings me to the border
            A               D
But I can't think of her as cheap
Gm                   D        Gm             D
I've seen it in your eyes, a wanted man's disguise
      A           G
And a million bad highs
    Gm                   D
The lights have all gone red
    Gm  D
The 4am dread
Gm            D              A             G
Then you made sense like the star that you are
   A       D
Oh shangri la...