Masterpiece Theatre Iii

Gsus4: 335533
Eb/D#: 668886
G#: 466544



[note: this song is absolutely wild towards the end,
there are something like 5 different things going on.
you’ll have to listen to the song and improvise a bit
to get it all to work out smoothly.]

[Verse]
Gm
I've got a new disease in me,
I've got a friend that's losing sleep,
Gsus4
I take it hard, it's hard to take,
Eb         Cm
I'm wide awake,
N.C.     Gm
I’m wide a-awake.

Gm
I want confessions, discretion's not what I need to sell,
Gm             Gsus4
I never needed a reason for keeping secrets from
Eb
myself and now
Cm              Gm
That's just how I tell I'm wide awake

Eb            Cm
I'll wreck this if I have to
Gm
(Tell me what good would that do?)
Eb            Cm        Gm
I'll wreck this if I have to

Gm [building]

(I’ll be so good to you,)
(i’ll be so good to you.)

Eb      Cm  Gm
You get separated, somebody's
Eb
Gone,
     Cm         Gm
And I don't know how this is
Eb
Wrong,
    Cm      Gm
I'm so frustrated, falling behind,
Eb    Cm    Gm
You were a friend of mine.

Gm
(O-ohhhhh, o-ohhhhh)

[Crescendo into…]

A# F D#

A#      F          D#
I'd be so good to you,
A#      F          D#
I'd be so good to you,
                   A#        F        D#
Because they don't know you like I do
        A#
They don’t know you
F     D#
Like I do
        A#
They don’t know you
    F       D#
[high] Like I do-oo

A# F D#

[new drums pick up]

Eb                     Cm
There's a difference from me to them,
      Eb                            Cm
And the road home is paved in star fuckers requiem,
     Eb               Cm
I can never go, go back home again,
Ab         A#
Acadia is gone


Cm                G#
All my indecision, all of my excess,
D#                        A#
Don't you ever tell me I'm not loving you best,
Cm                G#
I just need a minute, I just need a breath,
D#                        A#
It’s very hard to drink to my continued success
       Cm G# D# A#
And I, I, I, oh,
Cm        G# D# A#
Slow down, slo-ow,
              G#       A#
It's better in the worst way,
F                     G
It's getting better in the worst way

Cm G# D# A#

[decrescendo]

Bm G D A

Bm
(Look around round
(Look around round look around,
G
(Look around round
(Look around round look around
D
(Look around round
(Look around round look around
A
(Look around round
(Look around round look around)

Bm
So here's another day, I'll spend away from you,
Bm
Another night I'm on another broken avenue,
G
Trading in who I've been for shiny celebrity skin
D                A
I like to push it and push it until my luck is over
Bm
I wonder what you're doing, I wonder if you doubt it.
Bm
I wonder how we used to ever go so long without it.
G
All the work to impress, charming girls out of their
D
dresses and smiling pretty and
A
Pretty

Bm                 G        D A
I am right beside you, right
(Please just follow me)
(What you want, what you need)
(I thought you wanted me)

Bm                 G
I am right beside you, right
(Please just follow me)
(I thought you wanted me)
D        A
I'll make this perfect again

Bm     G    D     A
(I thought you wanted me)
(Cross my heart, I hope to die, hope to die)
If I burn out and slip away
(Please just follow me)
(What you want, what you need)

Bm      G    D     A
You're beautiful, you are
(Please just follow me)
(What you want, what you need)
(Cross my heart, I hope to die, hope to die)

[Outro]
    Bm    G  D     A
I've been here so very long
Bm                 G        D        A
(I could slip into you, it's so easy to come back into you)
I'll hide it, can I hide in you a while?
        Bm        G            D        A
(I'm not sick of you yet, is that as good as it gets?)
(And this is just the part I portray, and this is just the part I portray)
Bm                 G            D    A            Bm
I never took you for a trick but sometimes I don't know what you want
                 G        D        A
I could take it if you need to take this out on someone
(And this is just the part I portray)
Bm                G        D
(And this is just the part I portray)
                A        D
I don't know how it got this way