Verse 1
[C] [G/B]
Imagine me younger and bummin' around
[Am7] [D] [G]
An academy town, ghost of campus
[C] [G/B]
Doglegging across that lightening lawn
[Am7] [D] [G]
I could write my name on any surface
[C] [G/B]
I sent out a wish to the stars in the plough
[Am7] [D] [G]
It's a memory now, season's edge
Pre-Chorus
[D] [G] [D] [C]
How serene does it get?
Chorus
[B7] [Em] [G/B] [C]
It's the second-best thing to a cigarette
[B7] [Em] [G/B] [C]
Something shiny against the gloom
[D] [G] [C]
It's become my emotional alphabet
Instrumental
| [Bm] | [Em] | [Am] |
Verse 2
[C] [G/B]
The snow's coming down on the rue du cool shoes
[Am7] [D/F#] [G]
When the gatekeeper crews come to find mе
[C] [G/B]
Crushed down into dust then, I blew through thе street
[Am7] [D/F#] [G]
Where the rainmakers meet, life passed by me
[C] [G/B]
I saw you again in the babbling crowd
[Am7] [D/F#] [G]
You were shouting aloud, "Fix your eyes!
Pre-Chorus
[D] [G] [D] [C]
Stand your ground, it's cool to laugh
Chorus
[B7] [Em] [C]
You can ask for the actor's autograph
[B7] [Em] [C] [B7] [Em] [C]
But he's only made out of light
[D] [G] [C]
All that's left of you now is this paragraph
Instrumental
| [Bm] | [Em] | [Am] | [Am] | [Am9] | [Am9] |
| [C] | [C] | [G/B] | [G/B] |
| [Am7] | [Am] | [D/F#] | [G] |
| [C] | [C] | [G/B] | [G/B] |
| [Am7] | [Am] |
Pre-Chorus
[D/F#] [G]
Extra mile
[D] [G]
Hard and good
[D] [C]
All on foot
Chorus
[B7] [Em] [D] [C]
I threw into a game that I'll never win
[B7] [Em] [D] [C]
And I blew it, so screw it, I'll start again
[B7] [Em] [D] [C]
I've hung out on some ho-ly turf
[B7] [Em] [D] [C]
But it never comes out to much
[B7] [Em] [D] [C]
I have shone in a sil---ver surf
Outro
[C] [D] [A#maj7]
There's a song can I almost sing
[B7] [Em] [D] [C]
And I think it could be my special thing
[B7] [Em] [D] [C] [B7] [Em] [C]
It can turn to a kind of crutch
[D] [G] [C]
It unfolds like a kind of wing
