At times you can hear the three notes of the intro chords plucked in
the pattern of low-middle-high-middle. On live versions, someone in the
band plucks that pattern for the first four lines, then plucks it an octave
higher for the two lines that go "showered and blue-blazered..."
(Note: I recommend finding a good live version. I think the live is better
than the album version, which obscures the guitar.)
I've written two ways to play the chords. The first is the easiest,
but I saw them live and it looked they played it the second way.
They sound the same. I suppose the second is nice if you want
to give your guitar a hard strum without worrying about muting
the low string.
easy live
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Intro:
You have to do it running but you do everything that they
ask you to cause you don’t mind seeing
yourself in a picture as long as you look
faraway, as long as you look removed
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery
citibank lights, arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under
Oh you wouldn’t want an angel watching over.
Surprise, surprise, they wouldn’t wannna watch
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults
Make up something to believe in your heart of hearts
so you have something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves
so you swear you just saw a feathery
woman carry a blindfolded man through the trees
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
(repeat chorus)