Portrait Of A Blank Slate

[Intro]
Gm D# Cm Gm
D Gm D# Cm
Gm
D

[Verse 1]
Gm
  He told me that much and now he's dead
D#                              Cm
  Told me to kill my indulgences
With a sharp blow to the temple
Gm                           D                    Gm
  Pick up the phone call and do everything he says
I could take a plastic camera
D#
  We could make such a pretty picture
Cm
  Oh, so happy, oh, oh, so happy
Gm                         D
  I'm pretty cool once you get to know me

[Verse 2]
Gm
  I feel at some point I broke my mind
D#
  I'm always searching the silent type
Cm
  How do you all make it look so easy?
    Gm                     D
You open your hearts up so quickly,
it scares me

[Verse 3]
Gm
  She's an artist,
paints across my chest
D#
  Goes to parties, act like hotel guests
Cm
  Wake up Monday, now it's over
Gm                      D
  Don't you know no one gets what they came here for?
Gm
  I could paint her, wrapped around her
D#
  We could make such a pretty picture
Cm
  Oh, so happy, oh, oh, so happy
Gm                         D
  I'm pretty cool once you get to know me

[Chorus]
D#                     Cm
  But I'm just the same
                      Gm
I've got a boring name
  A#
Across the world from what you want and what you came
    D#
here  for
                     Cm
So I'll wait here for  you
                          Gm
Said, "Please, just let me  stay"
               A#        D#
Oh, just let me  stay, oh

[Verse 4]
Gm
  I guess you know now what to expect
D#                                    Cm
  He lives your own life in retrospect
You know it bores me? These insecurities
Gm                        D                   Gm
  Breaks you down just to act as the architect
I could wait here, by the west pier
D#
  Watch the flotsam float,
                Cm
slowly disappear
Oh, so happy, oh, oh, so happy
Gm                        D                          Gm
If only you knew just how much better things could be

[Interlude]
D# Gm D#m

[Bridge]
Gm                  D#
  Another week of action
Gm        D#m
  Another hypoglycaemic reaction

[Break]
Gm D# Cm Gm D
             (Woo)

[Chorus]
D#                     Cm
  But I'm just the same
                      Gm
I've got a boring name
  A#
Across the world from what you want and what you came
    D#
here  for
                     Cm
So I'll wait here for  you
                          Gm
Said, "Please, just let me  stay"
               A#
Oh, just let me  stay, oh just let me

[Post-Chorus]
D# Cm Gm A#
         I'm sorry,
it's all so predictable
D# Cm Gm A#
         I'm sorry, it's all so predictable,
I know

[Outro]
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