G     C G     C


[Verse]
    G             C   G               C
Oh, I   can't say what qualifies as pain
G                    A#
So transfixed by the wavering flame
D#                   A                G#
Mortal kings of each grade and grain erased

        G       C   G       C
Oh, I'm blessed


[Verse]
G                    C   G               C
  The slant may rain,      knows my door
G               A#
Tambourines my floor in four
D#                   A                 G#
Laughs and shakes my folded face where Jesus mowed my
G      C   G      C
lawn


[Verse]
G               C   G                C
  Fame has legs,      blazing chrome
G                 A#
Amputate but it's never quite gone
D#              A                       G#
Rakes in clover shown like snakes shine over rate my
G     C   G     C
crime


[Verse]
G               C   G                C
Why kill a man when you can drive him crazy?
G                    A#           D#                    A
Why make it end when my amusement always depends on the joke?

          G#              G    C   G    C
Won't you lend me my punchline

[jam]

G


[Verse]
G              C       G              C
   As a favor, can you be entertained   so that  
G                   A#             
day I can savor whatever remains
   D#             A                  G#
Of hurricanes too rattled to romance massive plates of circum-

G       C   G      C
stances