Song For Oscars

[Intro]
Dmaj7 Bm A  
(x2)
 
[Verse 1]
Dmaj7                           Bm
Tending to the city's broken heart
            A
Little question marks linger over lonely people
 
In the diner after dark
Dmaj7                Bm
All cooing in their tiny china cups
A
One great devastated row at the plate glass window
 
[Instrumental]
D Bm A 
(x2)
 
[Pre-Chorus]
    D                               Bm
We move to greet the emphysemic outlaws at the park
        A
Hoarding fourteen nips of Dewars
 
In an army jacket liquor cabinet
D                                  Bm
Starving out the skaters for a ledge under the stars
A                                     Am                     D   Bm
They all lived seven lives beforе the sun let down her guard
F#m                                   Am                  A  D   Bm7
Thеy all lived seven lives before the sun let down her guard
F#m                                   Am
They all lived seven lives before the sun let down her guard
 
[Chorus]
C                             G                    A
Magazine readers, with your matchbooks and compact mirrors
C                            E                     Dmaj7
Clobbered at Oscar's with flowers in the face of fear
 
[Instrumental]
Bm F#m D Dmaj7 
(x2)
 
[Verse 2]
 
A poem for the blue stalls
       Dm                Bm           D
In the bathrooms of the world in the backs of bars
                                                   Dmaj7
Hungry neon lovers' symbols hurled across the booths
                      Dm                     Bm
At the new boys, a little thick between the ears
 
[Pre-Chorus]
       D
He's going for sentimental, but he's comin' off severe
         Dmaj7
He says he's dead for seven years
    Bm
He was dutifully revered
         F#m
In certain circles they were casting statues out of potter plaster
Dmaj7
But that was all a while ago
Bm
Before he got here
         F#m
Now he lives on gin and tonics
      Dm
And studies Economics
 
[Chorus]
C                           Bm                       A
Magazine readers, with your matchbooks and compact mirrors
C                          E                       D
Clobbered at Oscar's with flowers in the face of fear
        C                             B                     A
Ah, you magazine readers, with your matchbooks and compact mirrors
 C                          E7                    D
Clobbered at Oscar's with flowers in the face of fear
 
[Outro]
C Bm A
C E D