Overseas Now

Intro: 
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A 
You clean the bathroom, 
        E 
On your hands and on your knees, 
F#m 
Wearing latex gloves, 
         D 
That you borrow from her, 
A                                   E 
 I don’t know what you think you’re doing, 
                        F#m 
But you’re doing it for free, 
                             D 
Do you know even what you’re doing anymore? 


 
A                    E 
  I know it’s not my business, 
                       F#m 
And I know it’s not my right, 
                            D 
But the expression on your face, 
                        A 
Looks so awkward and contrived, 
                       E 
But I know it’s not my business, 
                       F#m 
And I know it’s not my right, 
                         D* 
And I don’t know what to call it, 
N.C. 
But I wouldn’t call it, 


 
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Oh, I’m a rising star, I’m a sinking ship, 
                 D                  A 
You’re a work of art, something delicate, 
                   E 
You’re my mother’s son, 
                   F#m 
You’re my favorite song, 
                   D 
I’m the things you hide, 
                              A 
When you turn the lights back on, 
                      E 
I’m a one, or two, or three page explanation, 
         F#m 
You’re a getaway vacation, 
       D 
That I hoped would bring salvation, 
       A 
It did not, 
A 
And it’s killing me, 
    E 
You were the only person, 
          F#m 
Who could understand, 
                     D* 
The things I think inside my head, 
    N.C. 
And somehow you forgot. 


Interlude: 
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A 
 I dated Audrey Hepburns, 
E 
Just to be Paul Varjack, 
      F#m 
And I picked up all the paychecks, 
      D 
But I never called them back, 
A                     E 
 And I guess I wasn’t fooling anybody, 
      F#m 
But I never knew myself, 
           D 
As well as I knew how to act, 
A                       E 
 And I know it’s not my business, 
                       F#m 
And I know it’s not my right, 
                      D 
But you crawl into my bed, 
                     A 
In the middle of the night, 
A                     E 
And you ask me not to leave you, 
                        F#m 
But you don’t ask me to stay, 
                    D* 
And I never can say no, 
                           A* 
When you look at me like that. 


             E                   F#m 
I’m a rising star, I’m a sinking ship, 
                 D                  A 
You’re a work of art, something delicate, 
                   E 
You’re my mother’s son, 
                       F#m 
No, you’re my favorite song, 
                   D 
I’m the things you hide, 
                              A 
When you turn the lights back on, 
A                     E 
I’m a one, or two, or three page explanation, 
         F#m 
That you wouldn’t take the time, 
           D 
To give to anyone at all, 
A                     E 
 I’m a one, or two or three page explanation, 
         F#m 
That you wouldn’t take the time, 
            D 
To give to anyone, 
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Anyone at all. 


Interlude:
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Outro: 
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Are you overseas now? 
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With the drugs, 
            D 
And all the men, 
           A 
Or are you dead, 
                  E 
Or hiding in your loft, 
            F#m             D 
Behind your papers and your pens, 
            A 
Just how we met, 
              E                 F#m 
I never did believe a word they said, 
           D 
The bluest blues, 
            A 
The reddest reds, 
              E                 F#m 
I never did believe a word they said, 
             D 
They made it up, 
         A 
Even the end.