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Intro
DO FA DO FA DO FA DO
DO FA DO
We must talk in every telephone Get eaten off the web
DO FA SOL
We must rip out all the epilogues in the books that we have read
DO FA
And in the face of every criminal Strapped firmly to a chair
DO SOL DO
We must stare, we must stare, we must stare
DO FA DO
We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell
DO FA SOL
Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell
DO FA
And in the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream
DO SOL DO
We must sing, we must sing, we must sing
It'll go like this:
FA SOL
While my mother waters plants
DO FA
My father loads his guns
FA SOL
He says death will give us back to god
LAm FA SOL
Just like this setting sun is returned to this lonesome ocean
DO FA DO FA
And then they splashed into the deep blue sea
DO FA SOL DO FA DO DO SOL DO
It was a wonderful splash
DO FA DO
We must blend into the choir Sing ecstatic with the whole
DO FA SOL
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul
DO FA
And in this endless race for property and privilege to be one
DO SOL DO
We must run, we must run, we must run
DO FA DO
We must hang up in the belfry where the bats and moonlight laugh
DO FA SOL
We must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past
DO FA
And in the caverns of tomorrow With just our flashlights and our love
DO SOL DO
We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge
DO
And then we'll get down there to the very bottom of everything
And we'll see it, we'll see it, we'll see it
FA SOL DO FA
Oh my mornings coming back The whole world's waking up
FA SOL LAm FA
In the city buses are swimming past I'm happy just because
SOL DO FA DO
I found out I'm really no one
We Are Nowhere and It's Now
Capo 2
SOL SIm MIm RE SOL SIm MIm RE
(play this if you dont have a capo: A C# F# Em A C# F# Em)
SOL SIm MIm RE SOL SIm MIm RE
If you hate the taste of wine, why do you drink it till your blind
SOL SIm DO RE MIm
And if you swear that there's no truth and who cares, how come you say it
RE
like you're right
SOL SIm MIm RE SOL SIm MIm RE
Why are you scared to dream of God, when it's salvation that you want
SOL SIm DO RE MIm
You see, stars that clear have been dead for years, but the idea just lives
RE
on
SOL SIm MIm RE SOL SIm MIm RE
In our wheels that roll around, as we move over the ground
SOL SIm DO RE MIm RE
and all day it seems we've been in between, a past and future town
MIm RE
We are nowhere and it's now
MIm RE
We are nowhere and it's now
DO RE
In like a ten minute dream in the passenger seat
SOL RE MImm
While the world was flying by
MImm RE
I haven't been gone very long but it seems like a lifetime
SOL MIm SOL SIm SOL MIm SOL SIm RE
LAm RE
I been sleeping so strange at night
LAm RE
Side effects they don't advertise
LAm RE
I been sleeping so strange
LAm RE
With a head full of pesticide
SOL SIm MIm RE SOL SIm MIm RE
SOL SIm MIm RE SOL SIm MIm RE
I got no plans and too much time, I feel to restless to unwind
SOL SIm DO RE MIm RE
I'm always lost in thought as i walk the block to my favorite neon-sign
SOL SIm MIm RE SOL SIm MIm RE
Where the waitress looks concerned, but she never says a word
SOL SIm DO RE MIm RE
Just turns the jukebox on and we hum along and i smile back at her
SOL SIm MIm RE SOL SIm MIm RE
And my friend comes after work, when the features starts to blurr
SOL SIm DO RE
She says: "These bars are filled with things that kill, but now you
MIm RE
probably should have learned"
MIm RE
Did you forget that yellow bird?
MIm RE
How could you forget that yellow bird
DO RE
She took a small silverese and pinned it on to me,
SOL RE MIm
and said this one will bring you luck
MIm RE
I don't know if it's true, but i keep it for good luck
SOL MIm SOL SIm SOL MIm SOL SIm
Old Soul Song (For The New World)
RE SIm SOL LA RE RE SIm SOL LA RE
RE REsus(000230) SIm
Grey like new day leaks through the window
SOL LA RE
and some old song comes on the alarm clock radio.
RE REsus SIm
We walk the forty blocks to the middle
SOL LA RE
of the place we heard where everything would be
SOL LA RE
and there were barracades to keep us off the street,
SIm SOL MIm LA
but the crowd kept pushing forward until they swallowed the police.
MIm SOL
Yeah, they went wild yeah, they went wild.
MIm SOL
Yeah, they went wild yeah, they went wild.
RE SIm SOL LA RE RE SIm SOL LA RE
RE REsus SIm
We left before the dust had time to settle
SOL LA RE
and all the broken glass swept off the avenue.
RE REsus SIm
On the way home I held your camera like a bible,
SOL LA RE
wishing so bad that it held some kind of truth.
SOL LA RE
And I stood nervous next to you in the dark room,
SIm SOL MIm LA
you dropped the paper in the water and it all begins to bloom.
MIm SOL
Yeah, they went wild yeah, they went wild.
MIm SOL
Yeah, they went wild yeah, they went wild.
RE SOL SIm MIm LA RE SOL SIm MIm LA
SOL LA RE
Just when I get so lonesome I can't speak,
SIm SOL MIm LA
I see some flowers on a hill side, like a wall of new TVs.
MIm SOL
Yeah, they went wild. yeah, they went wild.
MIm SOL
Yeah, they went wild. yeah, they went wild.
RE MIm
Yeah, they went wild. yeah, they went wild.
SOL MIm
Yeah, they went wild. yeah, they went wild.
Lua
SOL SOL2 SOL SOL2 DO DO2 DO DO2
well i know that it is freezing but i think we have to walk
SOL SOL2 SOL SOL2 DO DO2 DO DO2
I keep waving to the taxis they keep turning their lights off
LAm RE REsus2 RE REsus2
but julie knows a party at some actor's westside loft
LAm DO LAm RE SOL SOL2 SOL SOL2
supplies are endless in the evening by the morning they'll be gone
SOL SOL2 SOL SOL2 DO DO2 DO DO2
When everything gets lonely I can be my own best friend
SOL SOL2 SOL SOL2 DO DO2 DO DO2
I'll grab a coffee and the paper; have my own conversations
LAm RE REsus2 RE REsus2
With the sidewalk and the pigeons and my window reflection
LAm DO LAm RE SOL SOL2 SOL SOL2
The mask I polish in the evening, by the morning looks like shit
LAm7(002213) SOL
and i know you have a heavy heart i can feel it when we kiss
LAm7 SOL REsus(000230)
and many men stronger than me have thrown their backs out tryin to lift it
LAm MIm SOL RE DO
but me im not a gamble you can count on me to split
LAm DO LAm RE SOL SOL2 SOL SOL2
the love i show you in the evening by the morning won't exist
SOL SOL2 SOL SOL2 DO DO2 DO2
You're looking skinny like a model with your eyes all painted black
SOL SOL2 SOL SOL2 DO DO2 DO2
You just keep going to the bathroom always say you'll be right back
LAm RE REsus2 RE REsus2
Well it takes one to know one, kid, I think you've got it bad
LAm DO LAm RE SOL SOL2 SOL SOL2
But what's so easy in the evening, by the morning is such a drag.
SOL SOL2 SOL SOL2 DO DO2 DO2
I've got a flask inside my pocket we can share it on the train
SOL SOL2 SOL SOL2 DO DO2 DO2
If you promise to stay conscious I will try and do the same
LAm RE REsus2 RE REsus2
We might die from medication, but we sure killed all the pain
LAm DO LAm RE SOL SOL2 SOL SOL2
But what was normally in the evening, by the morning seems insane.
LAm7 SOL
And I'm not sure what the trouble was that started all of this
LAm7 SOL REsus(000232)
The reasons have run away but the feeling never did
LAm MIm SOL RE DO
It's not something I would recommend, but it is one way to live
LAm DO LAm RE SOL SOL2 SOL SOL2
Cause what is simple in the moonlight, by the morning never is
LAm DO LAm RE MIm
What's so simple in the moonlight, now its so complicated.
LAm DO LAm DO SOL
What's so simple in the moonlight, so simple in the moonlight
Trail Under Water
Capo 4
LA
LA MI
You were born inside of a raindrop
RE LA
I watched you falling to your death
LA MI
And the sun, well it could not save you
RE LA
It'd fallen down too, the streets are wet
LA MI
Body of water, toxic and timeless
RE LA
The Atlantic ocean, New York skyline
LA MI
I always get lost when I leave the village
RE LA
So I couldn't come meet you in Brooklyn last night
LA MI
But I sing glory for my lowest
RE MI
And I will say peace to the people at me
LA MI
While the world waits for an explosion
RE LA
That instant of life that wipes that slate clean
FA# MI
So don't be fooled
FA# MI
So don't be lied to
DO# FA# SI MI
Love was always cruel
FA# MI
Don't act strange
FA# MI
Don't be a stranger
DO# FA# SI MI
It happened to me, now it's happening to you
RE
But if you take that train underwater then we could talk it through
LA MI RE LA LA MI RE LA
LA MI
Well if I could tame all of my desires
RE LA
Wait out the weather that howls in my brain
LA MI
Because it seems that it's always changing
RE LA
The wind's indecision, the sorrowful rain
LA MI
I was a postcard, I was a record
RE LA
I was a camera until I went blind
LA MI
Now I'm riding all over this island
RE MI
Looking for something to open my eyes
LA MI
Well we still sing glory from a highrise
RE LA
And I will say thanks if you're pouring my drinks
LA MI
While the world waits for an explosion
RE LA
That moment in time when we are set free
FA# MI
So don't stay mad
FA# MI
Just let some time pass
DO# FA# SI MI
And in the morning you'll wake feeling new
FA# MI
And if I don't come back
FA# MI
I mean, if I get sidetracked
DO# FA# SI MI
It's only 'cause I wanted to
RE
Keeping up with the moon on an all night avenue
LA MI RE LA
First Day of my Life
Intro
C E Am F G C x2(Pick)
DO MI LAm
This is the first day of my life
FA SOL DO
Swear I was born right in the doorway
DO MI LAm
I went out in the rain, suddenly everything changed
RE7(000212) SOL
They're spreading blankets on the beach
DO MI LAm
Yours is the first face that I saw
FA SOL DO
Think I was blind before I met you
DO MI LAm
Don't know where I am, don't know where I've been
RE7 SOL
But I know where I want to go
DO SOL LAm
So I thought I'd let you know
FA SOL
That these things take forever
DO DO/SI LAm
I especially am slow
RE2(003230) DO
But I realized how I need you and I wondered if I could come home
C G Am D2(003230) F2(006560) F?(006568)
DO MI LAm
I remember the time you drove all night
FA SOL DO
Just to meet me in the morning
DO MI LAm
I thought it was strange, you said everything changed
RE7 SOL
You felt as if you'd just woke up
DO MI LAm
And you said, "This is the first day of my life.
FA SOL DO
I'm glad I didn't die before I met you.
DO MI LAm
Now I don't care, I could go anywhere with you,
RE7 SOL
And I'd probably be happy."
DO SOL LAm
So if you want to be with me
FA SOL
With these things there's no telling
DO DO/SI LAm
We'll just have to wait and see
RE2 DO
But I'd rather be working for a paycheck than waiting to win the lottery
DO MI LAm
RE2 DO
Besides, maybe this time its different, I mean I really think you like me
E Am D2 F2 F? C E Am D2 F2 F? C
Another Travelin Song
Intro
SI
SI MI
i'm changin all my strings i'm gonna write another travelin' song
SI FA#
about all the million highways and the cities at the break of dawn
SI MI
i guess the best that i can do now is pretend that i done nothin wrong
FA# MI SI
and to dream about a train thats gonna take back where i belong
SI MI
The ocean speaks and spits and I can feel it from the interstate.
SI FA#
and I'm screaming my brother on a cell phone, he is far away.
SI MI
I'm saying nothing in the past or the future ever will feel like today.
FA# MI SI
I tell him park it in the alley and just hoping that our shit is safe.
MI SI
So I go back and forth forever
MI SI
All my thoughts they come in pairs
MI FA#
Oh, I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't
DO#m MI FA# SI
I'm not surprised, and I never feel quite prepared
Now I'm hunched over a typewriter, I guess you'd call it painting in a cave.
And there's a word I can't remember and a feeling I cannot forsake.
And now my ashtray's overflowing, I'm still staring at a clean, white page.
FA# MI SI
The morning's at my window and she's sending me to bed again.
SI MI
Well I dreamed of dark on the horizon, I dreamed of desert where the dead lay down.
SI FA#
I dreamed a prostituted child touching an old man in a fast food crowd.
SI MI
Oh yeah I dreamt the ship was sinking there were people screaming all around
FA# MI SI
and I awoke to my alarm clock, it was a pop song, it was playing loud.
MI SI
So I will find my fears and face them,
MI SI
Or I will cower like a dog.
MI FA#
I'll kick and scream or kneel in glee,
DO# MI FA# SI
I'll fight like hell to hide that I'm giving up!
SI SI SI SI
Landlock Blues
Capo 3
DO SOL DO
If you walk away, I'll walk away
DO SOL DO
First tell me which road you will take
LAm SOL DO LAm
I don't want to risk our paths crossing some day
DO SOL DO
So you walk that way, I'll walk this way
DO SOL DO
And the future hangs over our heads
DO SOL DO
And it moves with each current event
LAm SOL DO LAm
Until it falls all around like a cold steady rain
DO SOL DO
Just stay in when it's looking this way
DO SOL DO
And the moon's laying low in the sky
DO SOL DO
Forcing everything metal to shine
LAm SOL DO LAm
And the sidewalk holds diamonds like the jewelry store case
DO SOL DO
They argue walk this way, now walk this way
DO SOL DO
And Laura's asleep in my bed
DO SOL DO
As I'm leaving she wakes up and says
LAm SOL DO LAm
"I dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave
DO SOL DO
Baby don't go away, come here"
DO SOL DO
And there's kids playing guns in the street
DO SOL DO
And ones pointing his tree branch at me
LAm SOL DO LAm
So I put my hands up I say "enough is enough,
DO SOL DO
If you walk away, I'll walk away"
And he shot me dead
LAm SOL DO
I found a liquid cure
LAm SOL DO
From my landlocked blues
FA SOL DO LAm
It'll pass away like a slow parade
DO SOL DO
It's leaving but I don't know how soon
DO SOL DO DO SOL DO LAm SOL DO LAm DO SOL DO
DO SOL DO
And the world's got me dizzy again
DO SOL DO
You think after 22 years I'd be used to the spin
LAm SOL DO LAm
And it only feels worse when I stay in one place
DO SOL DO
So I'm always pacing around or walking away
I keep drinking the ink from my pen
And I'm balancing history books up on my head
But it all boils down to one quotable phrase
If you love something, give it away
A good woman will pick you apart
A box full of suggestions for your possible heart
But you may be offended and you may be afraid
But don't walk away, don't walk away
We made love on the living room floor
With the noise in background of a televised war
And in the deafening pleasure I thought I heard someone say
"If we walk away, they'll walk away"
But greed is a bottomless pit
And our freedom's a joke
We're just taking a piss
And the whole world must watch the sad comic display
If you're still free start running away
Cause we're coming for you!
DO SOL DO DO SOL DO LAm SOL DO LAm DO SOL DO
I've grown tired of holding this post
I feel more like a stranger each time I come home
So I'm making a deal with the devils of faith
Saying "let me walk away, please"
You'll be free child once you have died
From the shackles of language and immeasurable time
And then we can trade places, play musical grace
Till then walk away, walk away
LAm SOL DO
So I'm up at dawn
LAm SOL DO
Putting on my shoes
FA SOL DO LAm
I just want to make a clean escape
DO SOL DO
I'm leaving but I don't know where to
DO SOL DO
I know I'm leaving but I don't know where to
Poison Oak
A Dsus3(000230) or (000220) A Dsus3
LA REsus3
poison oak some boyhood bravery
LA REsus3
when a telephone was a tin can on a string
FA#/LA(202220) MI
and i fell asleep with you still talking to me
LA REsus3 LA REsus3
you said you weren't afraid to die
LA REsus3
in polaroids you were dressed in womans clothes
LA
were you made ashamed?
REsus3
why'd you lock them in the drawer?
FA#/LA MI
well i don't think that i ever loved you than when
LA
you turned away
REsus3
when you slammed the door
FAm7(200230)
when you stole the car
MIm7(020230)
drove towards mexico
LA
and you wrote bad checks
REsus3
just to fill your arm
FAm7
i was young enough
MIm7
i still believed in war
LA FAm7 LA FAm7
MI FAm7(200230)
but let the poets cry themselves to sleep
MI FAm7
an all there tearful words will turn back into steam
LA REsus3
me i'm a single cell on the serpents tongue
FAm7 MIm7
theres a muddy field where the garden was
LA
well im glad you got away
REsus3
but i'm still stuck out here
FAm7
my clothes are soaking wet
MIm7
from your brothers tears
LA FAm7 LA FAm7
MI FAm7
and i never thought this life was possible
MI
your the yellow bird
FAm7
that i've been waiting for
LA
the end of paralysis
RE
i was a statuette
FAm7
now i'm drunk as hell
MIm7
on a piano bench
LA
and when i press the keys
RE
its all gets reversed
FAm7
the sound of loneliness
MIm7
makes me happier
LA FAm7 LA FAm7
Road to Joy
Capo 1
Intro
DO
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The sun came up with no conclusion
It's flowers sleeping in their beds
The cities cometary's humming
I'm wide-awake, it's morning
I have my drugs, I have my woman
They keep away my loneliness
My parents have they have their religion
But sleep in separate houses
MIm LAm
I read the body count out of the paper
FA SOL DO
And now it's written all over my face
MIm LAm
No one ever plans to sleep out in the gutter
FA SOL DO
Sometimes that's just the most comfortable place
So I'm drinking, breathing, writing, singing Everyday up on the clock
My mind races with all my longings But cant keep up with what I got
I hope I don't sound too ungrateful What history gave modern man
The telephone to talk to strangers Machine guns and the camera lens
MIm LAm
So when you're asked to fight a war that's over nothing
FA SOL DO
It's best to join the side that's gonna win
MIm LAm
And no one's sure how all of this got started
FA SOL DO
But we're gonna make them goddam certain how its gonna end
DO
Oh ya we will, oh ya we will!
DO
Well I could have been a famous singer
If I had someone else's voice
But failure's always sounded better C C C C
Lets fuck it up boys, make some noise!
The sun came up with no conclusion
It's flowers sleeping in their beds
The cities cometary's humming
I'm wide-awake, it's morning
DO DO DO DO DO DO DO
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