Intro
G A G 
D C 
G A G 
D C 
C 
 
Verse 1
G 
I'm gonna sit on a big fluffy cloud 
        Em 
Looking down at the tops of the heads of the crowds 
       A 
Moving round and around the dark center of town 
           C 
With their eyes all searching for something that can't be found 
 
Verse 2
G 
I'm gonna laugh at the top of my lungs til 
  Em 
I can't quite remember just what the joke was 
        A 
But the laughter will fill up my body with love 
         C 
Which is always what I've been told I'm supposed to want 
 
Chorus
        G         C        D            C 
Oh, and I'm gonna fly on a plane to the sky 
         G         C            D              C 
Which my mind will devise using science that's being forgotten 
      G           C            D           C 
Cause I'm getting bored of the town of New York 
        G                 C                 D              C 
How the world's been transformed into a big apple and it's gotten so rotten 
 
Interlude
G A G 
D C 
G A G 
D C 
C 
 
Verse 3
G 
While all the world makes money so stoically 
Em 
I will be building a home out of poetry 
A 
Scraps of old volumes, wire and glue 
        C 
Will be something, though feeble, it's all I can do 
 
Verse 4
       G 
In the back of the room my fingers will shake 
         Em 
With the fury of someone with something to make 
          A 
That will take him so far, far away from this place 
           C 
That he'll never look back at all the worms and the snakes 
 
Chorus
            G          C               D           C 
And they'll lick at my heels, but they aren't even real 
       G              C                 D            C 
I will twirl and I'll wheel through the skyway, high over the steeple 
    G             C                 D            C 
And I'll take you with me and we'll grow old and lovely 
          G           C                D            C 
We'll eat fine apples from the tree of knowledge of good and evil 
 
Interlude
G A G 
D            C 
   You won't know about that 
G A G 
D C 
C 
 
Verse 5
G 
Burning with all of the things I must do 
       Em 
To get free of the wasteland of wire and glue 
     A 
I am wandering from cage to cage at the Bronx zoo 
        C* 
And I'm renaming all of the animals 
 
Verse 6
G 
I can't just wait on my knees in the chapel 
      Em 
To be bitten into like a worm in the apple 
    A 
I'm digging for freedom, guitar for a shovel 
    C 
I'm dirty.. my fingertips hurt me 
 
Chorus
    G         C           D                C 
The kids of Atlantis, magazines 'neath the mattress 
           G            C        D              C 
With their names in the atlas of heartbreak are calling my name 
    G           C            D           C 
And I'm feeling baffled, the worm in the apple 
        G          C                   D          C 
But the cold water tap will rain down upon me and nothing will be the same 
 
Outro
G A G 
D           C 
   It's all gonna be different now 
G A   G 
    I know 
D C*