Lion In A Coma

[E]

You can play this bit during the verse, because the keyboard chords are [Abm]/[E] - [F#]/[E] - [E]

      [E]    [Eadd9]    [E]  [Eadd9]
e|----4------2------0------2-------|
B|----0------0------0------0-------|
G|----1------1------1------1-------|
D|----2------2------2------2-------|
A|----2------2------2------2-------|
E|----0------0------0------0-------|

Or just stick to E if you prefer

[E]When all this mess will get me down I will depart from Chinatown
[E]Weaving in and out of line, the sidewalk's full of merchandise
[A]My nervous tick has got to quit, my cheeks are chewed down to the bit
[E]Up on the roof they're still around the hustling crowds still reach down
[E]I go up there and light a leaf and wish our turn was not so brief
[A]I'm paler than a summer blouse that's packed inside a haunted house
[E]I pack my bags and feel the family here is cropped by many hands
[A]That dig and plant me for the spring, come dig me out my lucid brain

[A]this wilderness up in my head,
[A]this rhythm that's up in my head,
[A]this rhythm it needs to get right out of my [N.C.]clothes and get into my bedroom.

[E]

[E]Is there no reason it can't be the way it was, music and me?
[E]My three best friends so casually just letting go so joyfully
[A]But if I let my wrist get tired, but if I let my spirit cry out
[E]There'll always be that fear of dying or is it just trying to divide?
[E]It makes me think my dearest things are not what they're supposed to be
[A]I trick myself when it is hard, I've got to keep up, oh my god
[E]And hope that I will not be wrong and keep my faith inside a song
[E]And we'll make up 'morrow, which reminds me not to leave them back inside

[A]this wilderness up in my head,

this rhythm that's up in my head,
this rhythm it needs to get right out of my[N.C.] clothes and get into my bedroom.

[E]

[E]lion in a coma, lion in a coma
[E]lion in a coma, lion in a coma

[D]sometimes the [C#m]sun will shine, y[F#]es I am just [E]doin fine.
[D]sometimes i'm [C#m]not aware where I[F#] am or what I[E] care
[D]sometimes i'm [C#m]well-to-do but I [F#]don't know wh[E]at to do
[D]sometimes I do[C#m]n't agree with my[F#] thoughts on [E]being free

[D]please don't l[C#m]eave me
[D]things that fe[C#m]el good,
[D]I've been luck[C#m]y
[D]trying to feel[C#m] good

[D]sometimes the [C#m]sun will shine, [F#]yes I am ju[E]st doin' fine.
[D]sometimes i'm [C#m]not aware where [F#]I am or wha[E]t i care
[D]sometimes i'm [C#m]well-to-do but I[F#] don't know[E] what to do
[D]sometimes i do[C#m]n't agree with m[F#]y thoughts [E]on being free.

[D]please don't l[C#m]eave me
[D]things that fe[C#m]el good,
[D]I've been luck[C#m]y
[D]trying to feel[C#m] good

[E]lion in a coma, lion in a coma
[E]who wants to smell the fine aroma,
[E]lion in a coma, lion in a coma
[E]who wants to run but cannot roam
[E]a lion in a coma, lion in a coma
[E]who wants to use his aching bones
[E]a lion in a coma, lion in a coma
[E]don't keep a lion in a coma
[E]lion in a coma, lion in a coma
[E]who wants to smell the fine aroma,
[E]lion in a coma, lion in a coma
[E]who wants to use his aching bones
[E]a lion in a coma, lion in a coma
[E]who wants to run but cannot roam
[E]a lion in a coma, lion in a coma
[E]don't keep a lion in a coma