INTRO: E

Why is this window so dirty and gray
I can’t see you through it anymore
It may be the smoke, it’s hard to say
The fact is this place has too many doors

I can’t find a handle on any of them
Maybe I see one but I don’t wanna turn it
What if I did and it opened on him
Ain’t truth a bh when you’re havin’ to learn

CHORUS:
Before a heart breaks it has to bend
It’s the last one to know when love comes to an end
And here I sit crazy, lonesome and sad
Watchin’ me dark and mad
Watchin’ me dark and mad

This cigarette burns like the pain in my soul
When the fire gets too hot the ash turns to coal
The smoke tells a story, it’s sad but it’s true
It turns into a ghost that looks just like you

Well I close my eyes and I silently scream
My mind comes and goes, it drifts and it dreams
The cold hand of death is welcomin’ warm
It’s the essence of love in it’s darkest form

CHORUS

Watchin’ me dark and mad
Watchin’ me dark and mad

OUTRO: E

My bones are starting to show thru
My eyes are dark and hollow
It’s all because I’m missing you
It’s getting hard for me to swallow
If magic doesn’t really come
Why did you say it did
If it’s just a fantasy for some
What do I tell the kids

(Rest is Spoken)

Ah Dear God
I come to you in all humbilitude (humbilitude)
As a representative of the children (daddy, daddyyyyyy)
Yes they’re the ones who aksed me to come to you
And talk to you about this particular subject
That subject being that little saying you gave us when we were in Bible school
At Camp Tanico
Aks (aks) and ye shall receive (take it take it ooh)

Now what we aksed for was
Can you please just tell us what the fk’s goin’ on (what the fk’s goin’ on)
Does magic really come?
I don’t be irreverent or anything like that
I wouldn’t dare would I?
But see I’m standing here at Dub Vallard’s Frostee Freeze
At the corner of Highway 67 and Salinburger Street
The home of a lovely girl with a poodle haircut named Cindy
To whom I gave one cleat, a football cleat (hit ‘em again harder)
Because I could’t afford the 15 that the doctors’ sons could (for you)

You see, we’re kinda lost out here GOd
I’ve got this fking snowcone in my hand, and it’s dripping down (drip drip drip)
And we’re wonderin’ since you’re kinda the doctor of the universe
Could ya give us a little cream or somethin’ for that (cream doctor)
Could ya just help us out a smidgin
Kinda lookin’ for a clue (just a clue)
I mean not in the mystery sense
Not in the Humphrey Bogart sense
But just in the sense that
We wanna know what to do
When we wake up in the morning and our heart is beating out of our fking chest
And it hurts

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Well all the dirty old men are eyin’ her
I’m no better in the corner spyin’ her
She bends over to pick up a rag
She walks my way and I can barely say
Now Emily you look so nice
Well Emily you better bring a glass of ice
Emily I don’t know how much of this I can take
N/C G
I shiver I shake

I make some stupid joke about the menu
You know how it gets so clumsy when you
Try to think out the next thing to say
But she doesn’t notice and laughs anyway
Now Emily I don’t wanna cause a scene
Emily you’re the best I’ve ever seen
Well Emily I don’t wanna be another coffee break
I shiver I shake

BRIDGE:
These lines you must have heard them all
Everyone’s lined up at the waitress call
Well Emily you got me climbin’ up the walls

SOLO: Em C Em C Em C D G

Well Emily smiles and goes on with her work
The next remark from the next drunken jerk
The same sweet smile the same hearthrob
You know the whole damn act’s just part of the job
Now Emily I’m sorry about the ketchup drip
Well Emily I’m sorry about the lousy tip
Emily I guess tonight I’ll lay awake
And shiver and shake

BRIDGE:
Will you think of me when I’m out the door
Will you think of me when you’re on the floor
Will you think of me oh anymore
Emily!
Emily!
Emily!
Emily!