The Prince Of The Hanging Gardens

Am7 D   G

[Verse]

      Am7  D
I'm a lazy student
              G
In a circular library
       Am7   D
With a glass ceiling
              G
And a parquet floor
     Am7    D
After graduation
                    G
I'm gonna go to the Amazon
   Am7         D
In search of a pigment
                  G
That I want on my wall

[Chorus]

Am7
Hold me
D
Scold me
Bm
Extol me
Em
Console me
Am7
Through the 90s
D
And the 80s
Bm
And the Tigris
Em
The Euphrates

[Verse]

    C                 D
And after all that I've said
              G
I want you to know me
               Em
I want you to throw me
In the river
       C                     D
So the clouds that follow my head
            G
Can finally rain down
            Em
On all your hydrangeas
              C                         D
I never had a doubt that you would come through
           G
I always adored you
           Em
I always ignored you
                     C
Just to make you try harder
                   D
To you do what you do
            G
I had to be awful
                      Em
Just to keep you from danger

[Instrumental]

Am7 D   G

[Verse]

     Am7         D
Come stand at my window
               G
With a view of suburbia
      Am7           D
As it marks out the edges
              G
Of my opulent grounds
    Am7           D
I'm rich but I'm troubled;
                     G
There's a worm in my Bougainvillaea
Am7        D
Why do you plague me
                   G
When my ethics are sound?

[Chorus]

Am7
Hold me
D
Scold me
Bm
Extol me
Em
Console me
Am7
Through the 90s
D
And the 80s
Bm
Through the waters
Em
Of Issey

[Verse]

    C                 D
And after all that I've said
              G
I want you to know me
               Em
I want you to throw me
In the river
       C                     D
So the clouds that follow my head
            G
Can finally rain down
            Em
On all your hydrangeas
              C                         D
I never had a doubt that you would come through
           G
I always adored you
           Em
I always ignored you
                     C
Just to make you try harder
                   D
To you do what you do
            G
I had to be awful
                      Em
Just to keep you from danger

[Bridge]

    Am7
And after all I've said
      Bm    G
It's academia
     Am           C
How could I be so faithful
        D
To the Queen of Media?
            C
Through the 90s
         D
And the 80s
       Bm
In the AD
        Em
And the BC
            C
Through the Xanthus
        D
And the Yangtze
        Bm
And the Niger
         Em
And the Ganges

[Pre-Chorus]

Am7
Hold me
D
Fold me
   Bm
Control me
  Em
Cajole me
      Am7
And release me
        D
On the Lethe
        Bm               Em
And the ichor through my body

[Chorus]

    C                 D
And after all that I've said
              G
I want you to know me
               Em
I want you to throw me

In the river
       C                     D
So the clouds that follow my head
            G
Can finally rain down
            Em
On all your hydrangeas

[Outro]

              C                         D
I never had a doubt that you would come through
           G
I always adored you
           Em
I always ignored you
                     C
Just to make you try harder
                   D
To you do what you do
            G
I had to be awful
                      Em
Just to keep you from danger