Lyrics

Novocaine (capo on G#) by Ryan O'Toole [Amateur Blonde]

(I transposed from guitar to the piano and they are a little weird)

Intro:
G#G#5G#6 G#5 + G#5
G# (bass constant bowing undertone)
Late at night
E (flat5)
The Trauma Light
F flat5 E (flat5)
And there’s no sleeping
G#5 B
Whose gonna pay for this?
G#5 B
Whose gonna pay for,
G# (enter remaining strings)
Twenty-two
G#5
Out of ten
G#6 G#5
The pain is seething
G#5 B
It’s unbelievable.
G#5 B
They’re unbelievable,
C#
The less they know,
C#m
the more they say,
B
and what they mean,
A/F#m (G# A B
A G#
x 2)
gets locked away____(harmony ala Frankie Laine ‘Jezebel’)______.
B6 F#m G#
And you didn’t plan for this.
B6 F#m G#
And you couldn’t plan for this.
G#5 B
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
G#5 B
B G#5 B

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
G# E flat5
Throw the shoe away
F flat5 E flat5
and trade it in for Novocaine
G#5 B
So not to speak the words
G#5 B
The words of mercy
C#
If you cried out,
C#m
If you give in,
B
There’d be nothing left
F#m (G# A B A G# x 2)
to believe in____(harmony ala Frankie Laine ‘Jezebel’)___.
B6 F#m G#
And you didn’t plan for this
B6 F#m G#
And you couldn’t plan for this
E F# G#
And you didn’t plan for this
E F# G#
And you couldn’t plan for this
G#5 B
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
G#5 B
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
B F (flat5) E (flat5) C#7 G# (End whole note)
Mmmmmmmmm Mmmmmmmm Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm