My Own Version Of You

| Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G All through the summers, into Janu- ary Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G I've been visiting morgues and monasteries Em Em/D A/C# C Looking for the necessary body parts Bm A#aug Bm/A Bm/G# Limbs and livers and brains and hearts Turnaround 1 G I'll bring someone to life, is what I wanna do G7 | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | I wanna create my own  version  of  you Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G Well, it must be the winter of my discontent Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G I wish you'd've taken me with you wherever you went E Em/D A/C# C They talk all night and they talk all day Bm A#aug Bm/A Bm/G# Not for a minute do I believe anything they say Turnaround 2 G I'm gon' bring someone to life, someone I've never seen G7 | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | You know what I mean, you know exactly what I mean Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G I'll take the Scarface Pacino and The Godfather Brando Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G Mix it up in a tank and get a robot commando E Em/D A/C# C If I do it upright and put the head on straight Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G I'll be saved by the creature that I create Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G I'll get blood from a cactus, gunpowder from ice Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G I don't gamble with cards and I don't shoot no dice E Em/D A/C# C If you look at my face with your sightless eye Bm A#aug Bm/A Bm/G# Can you cross your heart and hope to die? Turnaround 3 G I'll bring someone to life, someone for real G7 | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Someone who feels the way that I feel Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G I study Sanskrit and Arabic to improve my mind Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G I wanna do things for the benefit of all mankind E Em/D A/C# C I say to the willow tree, "Don't weep for me" Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G I'm saying: “To hell to all things that I used to be Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G Well, I get into trouble, then I hit the wall Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G No place to turn, no place at all E Em/D A/C# C I'll pick a number between a-one and two Bm A#aug Bm/A Bm/G# And I ask myself, "What would Julius Caesar do?" Turnaround 4 G I will bring someone to life in more ways than one G7 | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Don't matter how long it takes, it'll be done when it's done Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G I'm gonna make you play the piano like Leon Russell Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G Like Liberace, like St. John the Apostle E Em/D A/C# C I'll play every number that I can play Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G I'll see you maybe on Judgment Day Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G After midnight, if you still wanna meet Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G I'll be at the Black Horse Tavern on Armageddon Street E Em/D A/C# C Two doors down, not that far a walk Bm A#aug Bm/A Bm/G# I'll hear your footsteps, you won't have to knock Turnaround 5 G I'll bring someone to life, balance the scales G7 | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | I'm not gonna get involved any insignificant details Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G You can bring it to St. Peter, you can bring it to Jerome Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G You can bring it all the way over, bring it all the way home E Em/D A/C# C Bring it to the corner where the children play Bm A#aug Bm/A Bm/G# You can bring it to me on a silver tray Turnaround 6 G I'll bring someone to life, spare no expense G7 | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Do it with decency and common sense | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G Can you tell me what it means, to be or not to be? Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G You won't get away with fooling me E Em/D A/C# C Can you help me walk that moonlight mile? Bm A#aug Bm/A Bm/G# Can you give me the blessings of your smile? Turnaround 7 G I'll bring someone to life, use all of my powers G7 | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Do it in the dark, in the wee, small hours Verse 11 Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G I can see the history of the whole human race Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G It's all right there, it's carved into your face E Em/D A/C# C Should I break it all down? Should I fall on my knees? Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G Is there light at the end of the tunnel, can you tell me, please? Verse 12 Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G Stand over there by the cypress tree Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G Where the Trojan women and children were sold into slavery E Em/D A/C# C Long before the first Crusade Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G Way back before England or America were made Verse 13 Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G Step right into the burning hell Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G Where some of the best-known enemies of mankind dwell E Em/D A/C# C Mr. Freud with his dreams, Mr. Marx with his axe Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G See the raw hide lash rip the skin from their backs Verse 14 Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G Got the right spirit, you can feel it, you can hear it Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G You've got what they call the immortal spirit E Em/D A/C# C You can feel it all night, you can feel it in the morn' Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G It creeps in your body the day you were born Verse 15 Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G One strike of lightning is all that I need Bm Bm/A Bm/G# Bm/G And a blast of electricity that runs at top speed E Em/D A/C# C Shimmy your ribs, I'll stick in the knife Bm A#aug Bm/A Bm/G# Gonna jumpstart my creation to life Turnaround 8 G I wanna bring someone to life, turn back the years G7 | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Bm Bm/A | Bm/G# Bm/G | Do it with laughter and do it with tears (repeat and fade)