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[Verse 1]

         Gm
Well, he collapsed with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome on the E.R. floor,
                                  D
panic attacked, anaphylactic and ataxic
The way he spun his butterfly risked all six his phalanges,
                                    Gm
Roman candles at both ends in his synapses
And the method with which he recycled his humors
                                                         D
Trojan Horse’d his blood-brain barrier and raised the LD-50, yes, yes
And through flight-or-fight revelation shame, the Black Box Warrior,
    D7                                        Gm
he skipped this town and headed straight down history

Cm                               Gm
Shields himself from reason in a Kevlar baby-blue Tuxedo
D7                              Gm              G
quilted from the finest fibers, flesh, and fiberglass, and flowers
    Cm                   Gm
His ego a mosquito, evil incarnate/good incognito
A7                                   D
Pops placebos for libido, screaming “bless the torpedoes”


[Chorus]

    Gm
For what? For what?
    Cm
For what it’s worth,
   D                                Gm
if it was going to kill you boy, it would have by now
    Gm
For what? For what?
    Cm
For what it’s worth,
        D                                                Gm
there’s no more looking back, it’s looking up or looking down


[Instrumental]

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[Verse 2]
             Gm
Well, he was wearing stolen rubber shoes and wrapped a poison ivy noose
                                   D
around his Lotus jugular when they came
Well they found him with a map to every victim of his love
                                 Gm
and a tattoo of a blue jay on his face
And they waited for his vital signs to lie and let a flat line
                               D
cry a hymn out in Hungarian Harmonic
But he cocked his noggin, through his stoma sang “for Auld Lang Syne,
      D7                                             Gm
happy birthday to the succulents, I’ll die your hydroponics”

    Cm                            Gm
His rib cage was a hornet’s nest, palpitations set the beat
    D7                                 Gm            G
His vagus nerve a turk’s head knot, an axel hitch, a carrick bend
   Cm                                     Gm
He wondered if Christ-Consciousness would charge a cancellation fee
    A7                        D
Auf wiedersehn, au revoir, he gripped his wits right by their ends

[Chorus]

    Gm
For what? For what?
    Cm
For what it’s worth,
   D                                Gm
if it was going to kill you boy, it would have by now
    Gm
For what? For what?
    Cm
For what it’s worth,
        D                                                Gm
there’s no more looking back, it’s looking up or looking down


[Instrumental]

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Cm Gm Cm Gm
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[Bridge]

(Spoken)
Gm             Cm
Hello, welcome. Why don’t you take a seat?
            Gm                                    Cm
Get comfortable, relax, take a second if you need to.
Gm                        Cm
Now what’s bothering you? Well, why don’t we start at the beginning?
Gm                       Cm                                               Gm
Growing up, how was your relationship with the fundamentals of conscious existence?
                   Cm                                       Gm                                           Cm
Did you have xenon orchid sinews spilling down the outer center of your blooming Escher/Mandelbrot head?
                             Gm                                    Cm
And how about claustrophilic tendrils clapping caskets closed on seven-knuckle thumbs,
                                  Gm                                        Cm
did you get along well with the Gideon Bugler pineal glands, your projector eyes
                           Gm                         A
casting sci-fi’s on your STR’d strands? Tell me about your nerve to steal nerves of steel
       Gm                                     A
from under Bacchus’ bloody nose. Did Namibian Himbas tie-dye you,
          Gm                                            A
your ears pierced with a Phineas Gage flagpole, did you die before your day?
         Gm                              A                              Gm
Thursday traction, Tuesday titration. My hope is to assess through my objective report
                      D                                        Gm
of your subjective conjecture whether this proprietary blend of expertise and seasoning
                 D
works as well as this transorbital ice pick
Gm                                    D                                       Gm
Holistic ballistics, you got a better idea? It’s about the best we could come up with.
                                     Db                                       D
What, you think ideas spread because they’re good? No, they spread because people like them.
                      Eb               E
So here we are once again. Holding, as it were, a mirror up to your mirror.
I guess it’s just something people do.


[Verse 3]
         Am
A bloody knife to split your infrastructure, wine to rev your motor function,
                           E
coital machinations of the dead
Well you mainline your animus, karate chop your abacus
                            Am
and learn to be an animal instead
But I never did think you better than this, your modus operandi
                              E
causes Nazi/Skoptzyism and suicide
Why to thine own self be true when it is you who are the problem,
                                           Am    A
not the things you do but something sick inside

Dm                      Am
Lithium and Dialectics, boy you really is defective
E                        Am               A
CBT don’t seem effective for that Cluster B, accept it
Dm                       Am
Offer up your innocence, please ignore the side effects
       B                                   (E)
You’ve lost your mind and almost lost your life before, so you’ll be fine


[Chorus]

    Am
For what? For what?
    Dm
For what it’s worth,
   E                                Am
if it was going to kill you boy, it would have by now
    Am
For what? For what?
    Dm
For what it’s worth,
        E
there’s no more looking back
And why would you want to look back?
I mean, it's no good looking back
So try to look forward, now
    Am
For what? For what?
    Dm
For what it’s worth,
   E                                 Am
if they were gonna get you boy, they would have by now
    Am
For what? For what?
    Dm
For what it’s worth,
        E
there’s no more looking back, it’s looking up or looking

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