Intro     (playing the F chord use your thumb on the low F)

Am              F                  C          Dsus4 D  F  G
E|---0--------0-------------------------------------------------|
B|---1------1-1--3---1-------1----------------1----------1--0---|
G|-2-2----2----------------2---------0----0-4-0--2-------2--0---|
D|-2----2----------------3-------3------2--------5-4------------| x2
A|-0---------------------------------3-----------5---5----------|
E|-----------------1---1---1---1-------------------------1--3---|

Riff

 Am     F                 C         Dsus4 D  F  G
E|----0-------------1-------0----------------------------------|
B|----1-------1h3---1--3p1--1-------1----------1--0------------|
G|----2---0h2-------2-------0---0-4-0--2-2-----2--0------------|
D|-2------3---------3---------2--------5-4---------------------| X2
A|-0------------------------3-------3--5-5---5-----------------|
E|--------1------------------------------------1--3------------|

Verse (strum chords)
Am                                F
The imitation picks you up like a habit
C                          Dsus4 D  F G
Writing in the glow of the TV's static
Am                          F
Taking out the trash to the man
C                              Dsus4 D F G
Give the people something they understand

Am                    F
A stickman flashing a fine-line smile
C                Dsus4 D          F      G
Junk bond trader trying to sell a sucker a style
Am            F
Rich man in a poor man's clothes
C              Dsus4 D           F     G
The permanent installment of the daily dose


(Riff)

        Am                F
And you tell off when you tell it like it is
     C                Dsus4 D    F     G
Your world's no wider than your hatred of his
Am                F
  Checking into a small reality
C                    Dsus4 D   F G
Boring as a drug you take too regularly

        Am                F
The athelete's laugh, the broken crutch
     C                   Dsus4 D        F    G
The first true love that folded at the slightest touch
Am                    F
Brought down like an old hotel
        C                             Dsus4 D     F    G
People digging through the rubble for things they can resell

A                G
"Happy Holidays," said sick saviour
A                   C/F   G/B  G
The leaving lover I still favour
A
I won't take your medicine
G
I don't need a remedy
A                    C/F      G/B  G
To be everything I'm supposed to be
A
I don't want nobody else
G
I can do it by myself
A                 C     G/B  G
We're meant to be together

 A                        G
E|--------------------------------------------------------|
B|-2--------------2---------------------------------------|
G|-2------2---------4--2----------0-----0-----------------|
D|----2-----2---2-2-0--2-------0----0------3--2-----------|
A|-0----------4---0----4----2---------2-------------------|
E|--------------------------3-----------3-----------------|

Am        Am/C      G/D      G         C/F               G/D      G   G#dim
E|------------------------3--------0---------0-------0------------------------|
B|-----1--------1--------------------3---------3-------3-------3--------------|
G|-------2--------2-----0---0----0---------5-------5---------0---0----0---0---|
D|---2--------2-------0------------------3-------3---------0------------------|
A|-0--------3-----------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------3------------------------------------3---4-----|


(riff)

    Am              F
Now I'm a policeman directing traffic
        C                  Dsus4 D     F G
Keeping everything moving, everything static
Am                        F
I'm the hitchhiker you'll recognize passing
C                   Dsus4 D  F G
On your way to some everlasting

Am      F                C     Dsus4 D    F G
Better sell it while you can
Better sell it while you can
Better sell it while you can
Better sell it while you can



 C/F     G/B
E|--3--| --3--|
B|--5--| --3--|
G|--5--| --0--|
D|--3--| --0--|
A|--x--| --2--|
E|--x--| --x--|