[Intro]
Dmaj7 Bm A
(x2)

[Verse 1]
Dmaj7 Bm
Tending to the city’s broken heart
A
Little question marks linger over lonely people

In the diner after dark
Dmaj7 Bm
All cooing in their tiny china cups
A
One great devastated row at the plate glass window

[Instrumental]
D Bm A
(x2)

[Pre-Chorus]
D Bm
We move to greet the emphysemic outlaws at the park
A
Hoarding fourteen nips of Dewars

In an army jacket liquor cabinet
D Bm
Starving out the skaters for a ledge under the stars
A Am D Bm
They all lived seven lives beforе the sun let down her guard
F#m Am A D Bm7
Thеy all lived seven lives before the sun let down her guard
F#m Am
They all lived seven lives before the sun let down her guard

[Chorus]
C G A
Magazine readers, with your matchbooks and compact mirrors
C E Dmaj7
Clobbered at Oscar’s with flowers in the face of fear

[Instrumental]
Bm F#m D Dmaj7
(x2)

[Verse 2]

A poem for the blue stalls
Dm Bm D
In the bathrooms of the world in the backs of bars
Dmaj7
Hungry neon lovers’ symbols hurled across the booths
Dm Bm
At the new boys, a little thick between the ears

[Pre-Chorus]
D
He’s going for sentimental, but he’s comin’ off severe
Dmaj7
He says he’s dead for seven years
Bm
He was dutifully revered
F#m
In certain circles they were casting statues out of potter plaster
Dmaj7
But that was all a while ago
Bm
Before he got here
F#m
Now he lives on gin and tonics
Dm
And studies Economics

[Chorus]
C Bm A
Magazine readers, with your matchbooks and compact mirrors
C E D
Clobbered at Oscar’s with flowers in the face of fear
C B A
Ah, you magazine readers, with your matchbooks and compact mirrors
C E7 D
Clobbered at Oscar’s with flowers in the face of fear

[Outro]
C Bm A
C E D