Standard (EADGBE)

They're waiting to hate you

 So give them an excuse

[this repeats for all verses]

Hats off to my distant hope

I'm held back by a velvet rope

And he's behind the wall the smoke machine has made between us

And if he does exist, if camera clicking, green room guests swirl round the

 man whose real life can be touched

Then I will do just that much

[this repeats for the next stanza]