Bank Of Boston Beauty Queen chords by The Dresden Dolls

B                                          Fm                                             B7                      Fm
I've tried dolls that were guaranteed sixteen or under none were very exciting
B                                           Fm
Sorta like a laugh track or whacking off they'll get you off but it's just not the real thing
B7                              Fm
Its been decades since my pit days
B                                       Fm
But I haven't shaken it - I sit there like an idiot
B                                  Fm
Still caught up in the old punk protocol
Fm                                                              C
And dreaming that the teenagers will think that I'm a radical
B                Fm            C7
and I still wait for the bus to come
    Fb                                               C7
where the high school got torn down
B                              C7
Still expecting to find true love
                     Fb
among the skateboarders hanging out
Cm                                           C
In back of the bank in my hometown

Fm    Fm Fb       C7    B7

B                                  Fm
all this talk and no action's got me
B                                 Fm
stiff from the tit to the bone
B                         Fm
So I'm living in lala land -
Fm
but at least I'm not living at home
B7
Same old catcalls,
Fm
the same old chemicals
C7
Same old thrills
Fm
stealing stockings from the shopping mall
Fm
Its simple enough to grow the fuck up happy
with the rough cut
B7
Nobodys in here looking for a diamond
Fm
in the rough but

Fm                       C
I still wait for my mom to come
Fb                         C7
and pick me up at holly's house
Fm             C7
10 years after they cashed it in to make
Fb                                                       C
a multi-level parking lot for a seven-eleven and burger king

Fm                                   Fm                   Fb
I've got cryptographs I've got all the phones tapped
Fm             Cm                       Fb
It's proof enough it is indisputable
Fm                                           Fb
Love's not good enough I want photographs
Fm                                 Fb                             C
Something that will teach me my arithmetic at last

B7   B Fm B Fm

B7                                  Fm
better get your kids in - I'm on the loose again
B
And getting more ridiculous
Fm
the more I think
C
I ought to get
B                                 Fm
my mind out of the gutter
                       B
(it's getting dangerous, amanda-you are
Fm
old enough to be the pork)
B7                                  Fm
He's my own private highway
                  C
from the cradle to the grave
                              F
I save a bundle skipping middle age and saturdays

Fm                                 C
and I still wait for the cops to come
where the station since burned down
B                                         Fm
Still expecting they'll pick me up
Fb
for all the sins I committed
C
in the back of the banged-up pickup truck

Fm
I've got autographs,
                   Cm        Fb
backstage passes and leather
Fm      Gb          Fm        Fb
jacket back patches up the
Fm                         Fb
Ask me anything I've got evidence
Fm                      Gb
Single serving saccharine packets
B                                Fb
dripping black with lipstick kisses

Fm       Cm  Fb /2
Fm Fb C B

B                            Fm
I still wait for the bus to come back
C                    Fb                                C
where the high school got torn down
Fm                        C
Still expecting to find true love
Fb                                              C
among the skateboarders hanging out
C
In back of the bank in my home-

Fm                                  Fb
I'm no pederast just out of interes
Fm                              C
Thank you ,but I'm capable
                               Fb
of getting up and getting dressed
Fm                        C            Fb
Love's not good enough I want photographs
Fm                        C                       Fb
Something that will teach me common sense
Fm              Gb
Time and time again
C Fb                      Fm             Gb         C
I think ill dye my hair again
Fb
Oh god
Fm
Sixteen No, I'm ten
Fb           C
I'm seventeen
B
And a bank of boston beauty queen
Fm