Intro: E  C#m7 (x2)

E               C#m7                
    I dare not cough   
E               C#m7
    Nor breathe deep
A                            F#m7                          
    There’s been a pain in my chest 
A                 F#m7
    for nearly a week
E                C#m7     E           C#m7
    I want to be famous for falling in love 
A                F#m7     A           F#m7
    I want to be famous for falling in love 


B                  G#7                   
     I went to the hospital    
C#m                   A
     They put me in a bed
B                   G#7                
     Because I always do    
C#m                 A
     what my mother says
B     Cm          C#m           A
     Why should I lie about results of a test?


E                 C#m7                 
    I may soon be gone    
E                 C#m7
    To pluck on a harp
A                                F#m7                                
    Like those colored pencil portraits of dogs 
A                    F#m7
    we saw on a blue tarp
E                   C#m7      E             C#m7 
    But I spotted a damsel  ---- if memory serves 
A                   F#m7    A            F#m7
E|spott| ed a damsel  ---- if memory serves


B                    G#7                   
     I went to the hospital    
C#m                  A
     They put me in a bed
B                  G#7                
     Because I always do    
C#m                  A
     what my mother says
B     Cm         C#m          A
     Why should I lie about results of a test?


E                       C#m7                        
    So  --  Who is your provider?     
E                       C#m7
    Where’d you get that bread?  
A                        F#m7                                
    Is it dying that terrified you?  
A                 F#m7
    Or just being dead?
E               C#m7    E            C#m7
    We are living in ---- an era of kings
A               F#m7    A            F#m7
    We are living in ---- an era of kings


B                  G#7                   
     I went to the hospital    
C#m                   A
     They put me in a bed
B                   G#7                
     Because I always do    
C#m                  A
     what my mother says
B     Cm         C#m          A
     Why should I lie about results of a test?