Plastic Skeletons

 E
Palm trees tickling the skyline
  A           Em
Cover me in dead vines
                  A          Am
I spoke with the plastic skeletons
                  E
And they're all drinking
            A        E            Em
Dandelion wine and admiring the shoreline
                  A                          E
Telling me they love it when I tap my tambourine
                     E                  A   Em
And wear my skinny jeans or pray like Augustine
           Em
Oh, am I good in spite of
       Am            E
Or because I am nineteen?
Em                        A
Just tell me what you mean, friend
A                Em
Life is no long weekend
A                               Am
Hope you have it in you to undress again

[Bridge]
Em                      Am
I saw Chicago, it was rotting
 Em                      A
Jazz ballads played low. No one saw me
E                   A
Crawl like a gecko toward sunlight
E                  A
So many fat crows with appetite

[Chorus]
Em              D                Em
Do you wanna dance like a fire ant
E                G            Em
In the eye of a long-dead bison?
E              G               Em
Do you wanna love like a poet can?
E                   D             Em
The husk of their fruit just ripened
E              D                    Em
Do you wanna meet on the cold concrete
E            G            Em
Outside our favourite diner?
E              G             Em
Do you wanna wrap me up in suede
E               D          Em
Smudge off my black eyeliner?

[Verse 2]
Em
Notebooks filled with dirty poems
      A              Em
All slanted like hipbones of women
       A                          Am    Em
Who stand and twist the cords of telephones
    E              E                       Em
I kiss your microphone and blame it on hormones
E                   A            Am               Em
Oh, I've become addicted to the smell of your cologne
      E                                             E
But why can't we just keep it our little summer secret?
                      A                            E
You should know that everything I say won't be repeated
E                       A                 Em
Drink your margarita, flirt with drunk Maria
A                     Em
Chasing skirts like some golden retriever

[Bridge]
Em                      Am
I saw Chicago, it was rotting
 Em                      A
Jazz ballads played low. No one saw me
E                   A
Crawl like a gecko toward sunlight
E                  A
So many fat crows with appetite

[Chorus]
Em              D                Em
Do you wanna dance like a fire ant
E                G            Em
In the eye of a long-dead bison?
E              G               Em
Do you wanna love like a poet can?
E                   D             Em
The husk of their fruit just ripened
E              D                    Em
Do you wanna meet on the cold concrete
E            G            Em
Outside our favourite diner?
E              G             Em
Do you wanna wrap me up in suede
E               D          Em
Smudge off my black eyeliner?

[Chorus]
Em              D                Em
Do you wanna dance like a fire ant
E                G            Em
In the eye of a long-dead bison?
E              G               Em
Do you wanna love like a poet can?
E                   D             Em
The husk of their fruit just ripened
E              D                    Em
Do you wanna meet on the cold concrete
E            G            Em
Outside our favourite diner?
E              G             Em
Do you wanna wrap me up in suede
E              N.C.
Smudge off my black eyeliner?