Chromium appeared originally on "After Everything Now This" and was an electric version.
There's a remixed electronic version on Parallel Universe. There's also an acoustic
on The Church's "El Momento Descuidado" and Marty Willson-Piper's solo live CD "Live
the Other Side."
The lyrics appear in different order in different versions. The chords and lyrics here
from the acoustic live version on Willson-Piper's live album.
Intro:
Silver needles Golden eagles
Frightened faces Basket cases
Jags and riches Queens and witches
Electric mantras And tight-fitting dreams
Never been so high
Never been so low
Never been so high
Gilded flowers Long-lost hours
Morning programs With fake suntans
Meet a maniac in the cul-de-sac
Otherwise it's this ennui
Chromium platin'
All this waiting brings me down
Suffocatin'
All those colors bring me around
Never been so high
Never been so low
Never been so high
Broken records Faded labels
Songs to sing to When you were young
A tattooed pierced arm Fresh and perfumed
Switch your prison Fly away
Chromium platin'
All this waiting brings me down
Suffocatin'
All those colors bring me around
(x24400)
All those colors bring me down
All those colors bring me round
(x3)
And jewels on your fingers
Tears in your dresses
Fabulous mansions And damp little rooms
This one will shrink me
This one will grow me
Cue me to sleep And reality looms
Chromium platin'
All this waiting brings me down
Suffocatin'
All those colors bring me around