(4:4 / 80bpm / G#major)
INTRO:
(Bb7 Bb7sus4 Bb7)
VERSE:
(D#+) (D#+ D#+sus2 D#+)
(bass: Bb (D) D# (B G))
(G#) (G#6 G#) (G# G#6 G# G#dim G#) (G#dim G#)
(C# C#sus2 C# C#sus2 C#) (C#bar) (G#) (G# G#6 G#)
(bass: G# (C ) C# (B) G#)
my dear helena
my agent of change
will you ever forgive me again?
(F#sus4 F#sus2) (F#maj7) (F#dim/Bb) (G#7) (F#dim) (C7) (Bb7 Bbsus2 Bb Bb7) (G#)
(G# G#6 G#6)
(bass: F# (Bb) G# (F#) F# (A) C (Bb) Bb (G#) G# (C D#))
my reputation
as seems as is strange
will you ever forgive me again?
CHORUS:
(Fm7 Fm7sus4 Fm7) (Fm7 Fm7sus4 Fm7)
cuz i’m a battery-operated achin to change too…(just like you)
(Bb7) (Bbsus2 Bb Bb7)
aging away…
waiting in vain…
(bass: F (G# C) Bb (G#))
i’m a service provider and so are you
working for pay…
aging away…
agent of hate…
achin to change…
VERSE:
your wicked wildfire
has secretly strayed
will it ever enflame me again?
my dear helena
on the edge of the thames
will you ever forgive me again?
CHORUS:
cuz i’m a painfully obvious achin to change too
changing my name…
legally changed…
changing your name i’ll get mine legally changed too…
legally changed…
changing my name…
at the end of the day…
erase all my pain…
VERSE:
my dear helena
at the end of the day
will you kindly erase all my pain?
my reputation
as seems as is strange
will you ever forgive me again?
(famous traitors…)
(rattle off the alphabet…)