| Bm | A | G | D | |
| Now coming down out of this | swandive | to your | arms |
| Bm | A | G | D | |
| I make no sound as I | move through | your reser | voirs |
| Bm | |
| I wake up quick and I wake up sick as you |
| Bm | A | G | A | D | |
| Abandon | me into these | fields of | rank and | file |
| Bm | A | G | D | |
| Through this | crowd I | hear you | breathing |
| Bm | A | G | D | Em | F# | |
| Through these | bars I | watch them | bring more | in |
| Chorus: |
| D | F#m | G | |
| Now I | send back letters | from the wasteland | home |
| D | F#m | G | |
| Where I | slow-dance to this | romance on my | own |
| Em | F#m | A | |
| It may be | two to tango, but | boy, it's one to let | go |
| Bm | A | G | D | |
| It's just one to let go |
| Verse 2: |
| Bm | A | G | D | |
| Now boy keep still, don't | spread your | self arou | nd |
| Bm | A | G | D | |
| Get back in line, eat your | bread and just | work the | plow |
| Bm | |
| 'Cause you're not through, we're not done with you, did you |
| Bm | A | G | A | D | |
| think you | were the only | one who's | been let | down? |
| Bm | A | G | D | |
| Sleep | tight little | boys of the | new damned |
| Bm | A | G | D | Em | F# | |
| Another | drop in the | tidal wave of | quicksan | d |
| Chorus: |
| D | F#m | G | |
| Now I | send back letters | from the wasteland h | ome |
| D | F#m | G | |
| Where I | slow-dance to this | romance on my | own |
| Em | F#m | A | |
| It may take | two to tango, but | boy, it's one to let | go |
| Bridge: |
| G | D | Em | D | |
| Now | another | bad i | dea gets | through |
| G | D | Em | A | |
| Down the | assembly | line to | you |
| Bm | |
| You're every bride I should have burned |
| Bm | |
| Every lesson I've unleared |
| Verse 3: |
| Bm | A | G | D | |
| Now in this | smoke filled | waiting | room with |
| Bm | A | G | D | |
| Incarcer | ated | lovesick | fools I will |
| Em | F# | |
| Wait for you to | cut me loose |
| But till then |
| Chorus: |
| D | F#m | G | |
| I | send back letters | from the waseland | home |
| D | F#m | G | |
| Where I | slow dance to this | romance on my | own |
| D | F#m | G | |
| I | send back letters | from the wasteland | home |
| D | F#m | G | |
| From where I | slow dance to this | romance on my | own |
| Outro |
| D F#m G (X3) |
| D | F#m | G | D | Em | G | D |