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[Verse 1]
   B                          E        B
Houdini’s still stuck in that Doctorow book
        B            E       B
The one place he can never escape
         B                          E            B
And your voice on the phone is like one of those paintings 
      B          F#        B
Where everything loses its shape
        G#m              
And the girl across the street, she's as light on her feet
   B                     F#
As sunlight bouncing off chrome 
        B    F#   E    B        B   F#        B
And I'm sad, sad, sad, sad, and far away from home

[Verse 2]
B                        E             B
Once I was standing on a Dublin street corner
          B                  E         B
I heard a fiddler pierce the veil of illusion
    B                          E               B
And once I got plastered at my best friend’s bar mitzvah
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Once I lived in perfect confusion
       G#m       
Oh and once I was eleven, once I was just atoms 
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Once I was a hilltop in Rome
        B    F#   E    B        B   F#        B
Now I’m sad, sad, sad, sad, and far away from home
   F#       B          E        B          E           B          F#         B
Oh lie, dee-dee, de-de-dee, dee-dee, de-de-dee-dee-dee-dee, de-de-dee, de-de-dee

[Verse 3]
      B                            E           B
Now a kiss is just a flower that a bee could return from
    B             E            B
And do his little dance at the hive
   B                                E               B
Perhaps it's worth mentioning, as I write this song down
         B        F#           B
I am the happiest fucker alive
        G#m 
For the seashore cries out for the painter to paint it
        B                         F#
And the wind whips the water into foam
        B    F#   E    B        B   F#        B
And I'm sad, sad, sad, sad, and far away from home
         B    F#   E    B        B   F#        B
Yes I am sad, sad, sad, sad, and I’m far away from home
   F#       B          E        B          E           B          F#         B
So lie, dee-dee, de-de-dee, dee-dee, de-de-dee-dee-dee-dee, de-de-dee, de-de-dee