Polaroids Cifras

Capo 4th fret (Key of F#)
 
[Verse 1]
D                        D/B
Please, no more therapy, Mother take care of me,
D                        Em
Piece me together with a needle and thread.
D                     D/B
Wrap me in eiderdown, lace from your wedding gown.
D                       Em
Fold me and lay me down on your bed.
   G                   D/F#
Or liken me to a shoe, blackened and spit-shone through
Fmaj7                                        Aadd9
Kicking back home to you, smiling back home.
D                         D/B
Singing back home to you. Laughing back home to you,
Em7                        D
Dragging back home to you.
 
[Verse 2]
D                   D/B
I was so wary then, the ugly American
D                    Em
Thinner than oxygen, tough as a whore
D                         D/B
I said you can lie to me, I own what's inside of me
D                     Em
Nothing surprises me, anymore
G                       D/F#
But forests in Germany, kids in the Tuileries
Fmaj7                     Aadd9
Broken-down fortresses, in old Italy
D                       D/B
And claiming his victory, shrouded in mystery
Em7                     D
He went running away with me
 
[Verse 3]
D                   D/B
Back in our home New York, walking these streets forlorn
D                    Em
We all in our uniforms, black and black
D                         D/B
Doing that slouch and jive, the artist must survive
D                     Em
We got all we need we cried, and don't look back
G                       D/F#
Thinking we had it made, poised for the hip parade
Fmaj7                     Aadd9
Knee deep in accolades, the conceptual pair
D                       D/B
But ever the malcontent, he left without incident
Em7                     D
Vanished into thin air
 
[Verse 4]
D                   D/B
Now I am always amazed, words can fill up the page
D                    Em
Pages full up the days, between him and me
D                         D/B
But the vows that we never keep, from bedrooms to business-speak
D                     Em
Make me remember how cheap, words can be
G                       D/F#
And the letters I wrote you of, were those of the desperate stuff
Fmaj7                     Aadd9
Like begging for love in a suicide threat
D                       D/B
But I am too young to die, too old for a lullaby
Em7                     D
Too tired for life on the ledge
 
[Verse 5]
D                   D/B
But I had a dream last night, of lovers who walked the plank
D                    Em
Out on the edge of time, amidst ridicule
D                         D/B
They laughed as they rocked and reeled, over the mining fields
D                     Em
Coming to rest on this ship of fools
G                       D/F#
But he just took polaroids of her smile in the light
Fmaj7                     Aadd9
Of the dawn of the menacing sky
D                       D/B
And before they went overboard, she turned and held up a card
Em7                     D
And it said, Valentine
 
 
Chord Diagrams:
 
String    654321
          EADGBE
 
D/B:      X2OO33
 
Fmaj7:    133210 (thumb for bass note)
 
Aadd9:    X02200
 
D/F#:     200232 (thumb for bass note)
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