These lead lines are played over the chords throughout most of the song:
e|----------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------|
G|--11-11--14-11-9~-----------------------------|
D|----------------------------11-11--14-11-9-7~-|
A|----------------------------------------------|
E|----------------------------------------------|
AF#mD
Ragged robbins for the curtain call
AF#mD
Wrapped in ribbons on the trailer door
AF#mD
Carved initials in a concrete footstall
AF#mD
On the imitation marble floor
AF#mD
We're the boxtop admissions and their throwaways,
AF#mD
Strewn across tobacco roads
AF#mD
With their wormwood shots and their snake oil plots
AF#mD
Drunk sheepshank con men and their sycophants
AF#mD
And I
AF#mD
I often wonder if I've already died
(GUITAR DROPS OUT; Only bass/drums play for a frame)
AF#mD
Out at elbows by the encore
AF#mD
But there's a citadel inside
AF#mD
Where I'll go and shape my heart like yours,
AF#mD
As you shape yours like mine
AF#mD
Where we're the spiraling arms of all galaxies
AF#mD
And we're the microscopic sand
AF#mD
Suffering from delusions of ungrandeur on middling display
AF#mDAFDm
Beside the Cardiff giant with the alabaster eyes
AF#mDAF#D
I often wonder if I've already died
AF#mD
I often wonder if I've already died,
(BRIDGE): repeat 4x
A
Or if the 'I'
A
if the 'I'
AD
is an unintelligible lie
(OUTRO):
A
Off we flew like swarms of hornets
F#mD
'Woken up' from winter's rest
A
To colonize with plastic pulp
F#mD
Our neighbor's perfect paper nest
A
While all year round potter wasp
F#mD
Has buzzed her unhinged song
A
You can hear its creaking in our floorboards
F#mD
Megalomania's only mania if you're wrong
A, F#m, D x2
A (strummed a few times during the instrumental outro)
A: e|---| F#m: e|-2-| D: e|-2-|
B|-2-| B|-2-| B|-3-|
G|-2-| G|-2-| G|-2-|
D|-2-| D|-4-| D|-0-|
A|-0-| A|-4-| A|---|
E|---| E|-2-| E|---|