The Zolas – Escape Artist chords

Intro: C Em G D x2 (Single strum)

(First Verse is one strum each chords)

          C              Em My alter-ego.  Hes an escape artist, 
         G                    Dhes only truly happy when hes under arrest.
          C                      C   C/B Emoh how he handsome, scheduled to hang to death
         G                  DHes only truly happy at the precipice. 

(Listen to the song to get the strumming pattern)

           Em                   GHes like a mirror.  He sticks into our ears
        Em                        Ga stethoscope to the chest of the vacant years.
        Em                       GI cant escape the chair, Im etherized with fear 
        C                that my only talent is in 


E--------------------------------|B--------------------------------| G--------0---4--------4---2---0--|D----2---------------------------|A-2------------------------------|E--------------------------------|

Hanging here,         but then its

               Bm      G(Can also play hanging here, but then its)

G        Bm                    CHey boy,  Ive got your man hes  right here
Bmputty in my hands
Gice cream and sweets,
Bmcoming in the sheets
   C                Emhe got no excuse to leave.

E-7-5-3--|B--------| (each note played for each words in "but in the")G--------|D--------|A--------|E--------|
           C                   Embut in the real world, an intertidal cave,
         G                        DI ride a desk chair waiting for a tidal wave
            C                    Am    C  EmI feel like dancing, but that is miles away
           C                     DIm feeling hard and  hollow like paper mache.

         C              EmMy alter ego.  Hes in a jailers cage
            G                       Dhe sits and waits for the devil to abet his escape.
         C                  C C/B  EmIm sorry pastor, I cant be pasteurized.
           G                         DAll of the bibles in the world for a metal file.

         C                          EmAt every clock strike, he hears the jailers keys
        G                              Dand the doubt starts to sprout til hes on his knees.
         C                     Em G     Emand he remembers like its his mothers call
           G                        Dto feel his hand find a grip at the top of the wall.

              C                  Gand I want to feel it, I want to feel the fire 
       C                   Gof the leftover sun on the roofing tiles.
          C                  GI want to feel it, I want to feel the fire 
       C                   of the leftover sun on the 

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Roofing tiles,    But still its

               D(Can also play Roofing tiles, But still its)

G        Bm                    CHey boy,  Ive got your man hes  right here
Bmputty in my hands
Gice cream and sweets,
Bmcoming in the sheets
   C                Emhe got no excuse to leave.

G        Bm                    CHey boy,  Ive got your man hes  right here
Bmputty in my hands
Gice cream and sweets,
Bmcoming in the sheets
   C                G (let ring)he got no excuse to leave.