Escape Artist chords by The Zolas

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
C majorC E minorEm G+G B minorBm

Verse:
     C majorC      E minorEm
My alter-ego. He’s an escape artist
     G+G           B minorBm
He’s only truly happy when he’s under arrest
     C majorC           C majorC  B minorBm G+G
Oh how he handsome, scheduled to hang to death
     E minorEm         B minorBm
He’s only truly happy at the precipice

Pre-Chorus:
      E minorEm         G+G
He’s like a mirror. He sticks into our ears
     E minorEm            G+G
A augmentedA stethoscope to the chest of the vacant years
     E minorEm            G+G
I can’t escape the chair, I’m etherized with fear
    C majorC         B7B7
That my only talent is in hanging here

Chorus:
B7B7
But then it’s
G+G    B minorBm           C majorC
Hey boy, I’ve got your man he’s right here
G+G
Putty in my hands
G+G
Ice cream and sweets
B minorBm
Coming in the sheets
  C majorC        G+G
He got no excuse to leave

Verse:
      C majorC          E minorEm
And in the real world, an intertidal cave
     G+G            B minorBm
I ride a desk chair waiting for a tidal wave
C majorC                C majorC   B minorBm G+G
I feel like dancing, but that is miles a--way
      E minorEm          B minorBm
I’m feeling hard and hollow like paper mache

     C majorC       E minorEm
My alter ego. He’s in a jailer’s cage
      G+G       B minorBm
He sits and waits for the devil to abet his escape
     C majorC         C majorC B minorBm G+G
I’m sorry pastor, I can’t be pasteurized
      E minorEm            B minorBm
All of the bibles in the world for a metal file

     C majorC             E minorEm
At every clock strike, he hears the jailer’s keys
    G+G                B minorBm
And the doubt starts to sprout til he’s on his knees
     C majorC          C majorC B minorBm   G+G
And he remembers like it’s his mother’s call
      E minorEm           B minorBm
To feel his hand find a grip at the top of the wall

Pre-Chorus:
       E minorEm         G+G
And I want to feel it, I want to feel the fire
    E minorEm         G+G
Of the leftover sun on the roofing tiles
       E minorEm         G+G
And I want to feel it, I want to feel the fire
    C majorC          B7B7
Of the leftover sun on the roofing tiles

Chorus:
B7B7
But then it’s
G+G    B minorBm           C majorC
Hey boy, I’ve got your man he’s right here
G+G
Putty in my hands
G+G
Ice cream and sweets
B minorBm
Coming in the sheets
  C majorC        G+G
He got no excuse to leave

Outro:
G+G    B minorBm           C majorC
Hey boy, I’ve got your man he’s right here
G+G
Putty in my hands
G+G
Ice cream and sweets
B minorBm
Coming in the sheets
  C majorC        G+G