D/F#    G 
D/F#    G
D/F#    G
A    Bm

[Verse]
D/F#                  G
I will do your interview
D/F#                         G
Try to explain what I'm going through
D/F#                   G               A              Bm  
Give you something to read into in a million different ways
D/F#                   G         D/F#                         G
A sick version of telephone starts at the clip of the microphone
D/F#                         G                        A            Bm
A game we thought we had all outgrown, but still everybody plays

[Chorus]
A                      D/F#        G                   F#m
Ignoring all of the remedies, believing all of the rumors
Em            D/F#        G
With their endless database
A                   D/F#                      G                   F#m
I wanna sit with my enemies and say, "we should have done this sooner"
Em        D/F#               G
While I look them in the face
Em       D/F#                   G
Maybe that will crack the case

[Verse]
D/F#                            G             D/F#                   G
I got a friend who's been thinking 'bout finally kicking her husband out
D/F#                      G              A              Bm
His second life as a talent scout, finally got him caught
D/F#                           G               D/F#                         G
While she was throwing out all his clothes she heard a voice from beyond the throes
D/F#                     G                     A                        Bm
"Punish him for the life he chose, but forgive the past that he did not."

[Chorus]
A                        D/F#   G                           F#m
It's really hard to hate anyone once you know what they've lived through
Em               D/F#           G
And once they've given you a taste
            A                  D/F#         G             F#m
She said, "This is for you to overcome, but I will always love you,"
Em       D/F#               G
In her perfect state of grace
Em        D/F#                   G 
Maybe that will crack the case

[Refrain]
D/F#        G
D/F#        G
D/F#        G       
A        Bm

[Verse]
D/F#                                G
Now that we're through with formalities
D/F#                       G
What is it you want to ask of me?
D/F#                      G
I'll answer open and honestly
A                  Bm
Whatever that means
D/F#                    G
Finding out that we occupy
D/F#                   G
Somebody else's opposing side
D/F#                   G                 A             Bm
On the banks of some great divide, two versions of a dream

[Chorus]
A                      D/F#        G                   F#m 
Countless revisions of history trying to tell us the future
Em        D/F#               G
Between each commercial break
A                     D/F#
I wanna call off the calvary
G                       F#m
Declare no winners or losers
Em      D/F#                  G
And forgive our shared mistakes
Em        D/F#                  G
They can pick the time and place
Em     D/F#                   G
Maybe that will crack the case