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[Verse 1]
EBG#m
It's like a makeover when the filming's over and she doesn't know
EBA
how to fix it so that it'll stay,
EB
and she can't figure out how to tease out her hair that way herself.
EBG#m
And when she wakes up all the make-up has rubbed away
EBA
and she doesn't know how to find her face.
AEB
It was only for one single day
AEB
that you looked so beautiful, baby.
AEB
Now your cheeks have gone pale, and your roots dark gray.
AEB
And though they nod as they notice you're nice,
AEB
baby, nobody's noticing twice.
AEB
Dim the lights as your memory of paradise fades.
[Verse 2]
EBG#m
I'm like an architect who cashed his check, but he doesn't let
EBA
on that it's the last one he'll get.
EB
Though he knows the funds have run dry,
AEB
he wants to have fun for one final night,
AEB
staring out at a skyline that he'll never change.
AEB
They're saying, 'though we like all the things that you've made,
AEB
notice no one remembers your name.
F#mABE
As you float through time, feel your powers decline day by day.
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[Verse 3]
EBG#m
You're like a convert who goes back to work when he can't retrieve
EBA
how the clarity actually felt.
EB
When his coworkers ask him the words won't come out.
EBG#m
And in three weeks his new leaf has blown away
EBA
and it feels just like an average day:
EB
facing walls talking into the phone,
AEB
sitting dumbly in church all alone,
AEB
picking back up the magazines he'd thrown away.
AEB
Well, convert, what your god whispered into your ear
AEB
you forgot once that god disappeared,
AEB
and that life-changing day, you just felt it fade.
F#m
You know it's got to fade, yeah,
AB
you know it's got to fade, oh, you know it's got to fade, and,
ABE
falling down on the couch, he says, it's perfectly that way.