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[E]  [B]  [C#m]
[A]  [E]  [B]
[F#m]  [E]  [G#m]  [C#m]  [B]
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[E]All of the [B]stage names e[C#m]vaporate, and it's just a [A]blood-flushed and [E]heart-rushing [B]race
either to[F#m] kick off too [E]soon or [G#m]stick round too t[C#m]late, to be [A]far too dear or too cut-[B]rate
Hold my [F#m]hand again, like at [B]the lake.
Hold that [F#m]mirror, babe, up to m[B]y face.
Hear the [F#m]whippoorwill? Am I[A] breathing still?

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?A [E]Hollywood [B]Babylon [C#m]bike-a-thon for breakdancers [A]all broken [E]down in their [B]beds,
?[F#m]now intra[E]venously [B]fed from a [F#m]bag hanging [E]over their [B]heads.
?Can I put you [F#m]down for some miles? What do you [B]say?
?Because don't you [F#m]know it's going to be a long, long [B]way.
?But if you've [F#m]got the cash, I'm ready to [A]bust my ass.

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?So [E]take this thin, [B]broken-down [C#m]circus clown reject and [A]give her the [E]name of a [B]queen.
?Don't I[F#m] know her from th[E]e mezzani[B]ne? Well, she didn't [F#m]look like no pr[E]incess to m[B]e.
?But with the[F#m] proper words [B]bestowed,
?and with her [F#m]morning shoot, and her evening [B]clothes,
?don't call her a [F#m]prostitute -- she ain't one of [B]those --
?Just call her a [F#m]proper little statue come un[A]froze.

[comment=same chords as intro, minus the last B]

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