Am                        Asus2/G  Am
Dig around in the garbage
                                   Asus2/G  Am
Save up some halibut bones in a jar
                                         Asus2/G  Am
Scrape a winter's worth of salt deposits

From the rusty frame of my car
             F   Em                  Am
Ask the experts,    maybe they'll know


[Verse 2]
                                Asus2/G  Am
Call up my teacher in Cambridge
                      Asus2/G  Am
See what he remembers
                                       Asus2/G  Am
Throw white phosphorus in the fireplace

Look for clues in the embers
              F   Em                              Am  Asus2/G  Am
Call the hotline,    give them a phony last name


[Chorus]
         Dm
Try to find
                     Am     Asus2/G  Am
An antidote for strychnine
           Dm    G
Tryin' to find
                     Am     Asus2/G  Am
An antidote for strychnine


[Verse 3]
                     Asus2/G  Am
Time's running short
                            Asus2/G  Am
Always seems to run shorter
                         Asus2/G  Am
Have some supplies sent

From up just past the northern border
              F  Em                                      Am  Asus2/G  Am
Keep a line out     to the people who take the long view


[Verse 4]
                       Asus2/G  Am
Only share my research
                           Asus2/G  Am
With sick lab rats like me

Trapped behind the beakers
                          Asus2/G  Am
And the Erlenmeyer flasks

Cut off from the world, I may not ever get free
        F  Em         Am  Asus2/G  Am
But I may     one day


[Chorus]
           Dm
Tryin' to find
                    Am     Asus2/G  Am
An antidote for strychnine
        Dm     G
Try to find
                     Am    Asus2/G  Am
An antidote for strychnine


[Bridge]
Bb         Dm                              Am
So many suffering from the same affliction
Dm
Coming up on the breakthrough
              G
The clock's ticking


[Verse 5]
Am                                Asus2/G  Am
Dig down amongst my calculations
              Asus2/G  Am
Check my map
                         Asus2/G  Am
Up there on the surface

Everybody's getting ready for the bloodbath
          F
Stem the tide, stem the tide
Em                                      Am  Asus2/G  Am
They're calling down for reinforcements


[Chorus]
           Dm
Tryin' to find
                           Am  Asus2/G  Am
An antidote for strychnine
           Dm     G
Tryin' to find
                           Am Asus2/G  Am
An antidote for strychnine