These lead lines are played over the chords throughout most of the song:
e|----------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------|
G|--11-11--14-11-9~-----------------------------|
D|----------------------------11-11--14-11-9-7~-|
A|----------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------|
A F#m D
Ragged robbins for the curtain call
A F#m D
Wrapped in ribbons on the trailer door
A F#m D
Carved initials in a concrete footstall
A F#m D
On the imitation marble floor
A F#m D
We're the boxtop admissions and their throwaways,
A F#m D
Strewn across tobacco roads
A F#m D
With their wormwood shots and their snake oil plots
A F#m D
Drunk sheepshank con men and their sycophants
A F#m D
And I
A F#m D
I often wonder if I've already died
[GUITAR DROPS OUT; Only bass/drums play for a frame]
A F#m D
Out at elbows by the encore
A F#m D
But there's a citadel inside
A F#m D
Where I'll go and shape my heart like yours,
A F#m D
As you shape yours like mine
A F#m D
Where we're the spiraling arms of all galaxies
A F#m D
And we're the microscopic sand
A F#m D
Suffering from delusions of ungrandeur on middling display
A F#m D A F#m D
Beside the Cardiff giant with the alabaster eyes
A F#m D A F#m D
I often wonder if I've already died
A F#m D
I often wonder if I've already died,
[BRIDGE]: repeat 4x
A
Or if the 'I'
A
if the 'I'
A D
is an unintelligible lie
[OUTRO]:
A
Off we flew like swarms of hornets
F#m D
'Woken up' from winter's rest
A
To colonize with plastic pulp
F#m D
Our neighbor's perfect paper nest
A
While all year round potter wasp
F#m D
Has buzzed her unhinged song
A
You can hear its creaking in our floorboards
F#m D
Megalomania's only mania if you're wrong
A, F#m, D x2
A (strummed a few times during the instrumental outro)
A: e|---| F#m: e|-2-| D: e|-2-|
B|-2-| B|-2-| B|-3-|
G|-2-| G|-2-| G|-2-|
D|-2-| D|-4-| D|-0-|
A|-0-| A|-4-| A|---|
E|---| E|-2-| E|---|
