C F C F C F C
C F C
We must talk in every telephone Get eaten off the web
C F G
We must rip out all the epilogues in the books that we have read
C F
And in the face of every criminal Strapped firmly to a chair
C G C
We must stare, we must stare, we must stare
C F C
We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell
C F G
Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell
C F
And in the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream
C G C
We must sing, we must sing, we must sing
It'll go like this: F G
While my mother waters plants
C F
My father loads his guns
F G
He says death will give us back to god
Am F G
Just like this setting sun is returned to this lonesome ocean
C F C F
And then they splashed into the deep blue sea
C F G C F C C G C
It was a wonderful splash
C F C
We must blend into the choir Sing ecstatic with the whole
C F G
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul
C F
And in this endless race for property and privilege to be one
C G C
We must run, we must run, we must run
C F C
We must hang up in the belfry where the bats and moonlight laugh
C F G
We must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past
C F
And in the caverns of tomorrow With just our flashlights and our love
C G C
We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge
C
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
F G C F
Oh my mornings coming back The whole world's waking up
F G Am F
In the city buses are swimming past I'm happy just because
G C F C
I found out I'm really no one
G Bm Em D G Bm Em D
(play this if you dont have A capo: A C# F# Em A C# F# Em)
G Bm Em D G Bm Em D
If you hate the taste of wine, why do you drink it till your blind
G Bm C D Em
And if you swear that there's no truth and who cares, how come you say it
D
like you're right
G Bm Em D G Bm Em D
Why are you scared to dream of God, when it's salvation that you want
G Bm C D Em
You see, stars that clear have been dead for years, but the idea just lives
D
on
G Bm Em D G Bm Em D
In our wheels that roll around, as we move over the ground
G Bm C D Em D
and all day it seems we've been in between, a past and future town
Em D
We are nowhere and it's now
Em D
We are nowhere and it's now
C D
In like a ten minute dream in the passenger seat
G D Emm
While the world was flying by
Emm D
I haven't been gone very long but it seems like a lifetime
G Em G Bm G Em G Bm D
Am D
I been sleeping so strange at night
Am D
Side effects they don't advertise
Am D
I been sleeping so strange
Am D
With a head full of pesticide
G Bm Em D G Bm Em D
G Bm Em D G Bm Em D
I got no plans and too much time, I feel to restless to unwind
G Bm C D Em D
I'm always lost in thought as i walk the block to my favorite neon-sign
G Bm Em D G Bm Em D
Where the waitress looks concerned, but she never says a word
G Bm C D Em D
Just turns the jukebox on and we hum along and i smile back at her
G Bm Em D G Bm Em D
And my friend comes after work, when the features starts to blurr
G Bm C D
She says: "These bars are filled with things that kill, but now you
Em D
probably should have learned"
Em D
Did you forget that yellow bird?
Em D
How could you forget that yellow bird
C D
She took a small silverese and pinned it on to me,
G D Em
and said this one will bring you luck
Em D
I don't know if it's true, but i keep it for good luck
G Em G Bm G Em G Bm
D Bm G A D D Bm G A D
D Dsus(000230) Bm
Grey like new day leaks through the window
G A D
and some old song comes on the alarm clock radio.
D Dsus Bm
We walk the forty blocks to the middle
G A D
of the place we heard where everything would be
G A D
and there were barracades to keep us off the street,
Bm G Em A
but the crowd kept pushing forward until they swallowed the police.
Em G
Yeah, they went wild yeah, they went wild.
Em G
Yeah, they went wild yeah, they went wild.
D Bm G A D D Bm G A D
D Dsus Bm
We left before the dust had time to settle
G A D
and all the broken glass swept off the avenue.
D Dsus Bm
On the way home I held your camera like a bible,
G A D
wishing so bad that it held some kind of truth.
G A D
And I stood nervous next to you in the dark room,
Bm G Em A
you dropped the paper in the water and it all begins to bloom.
Em G
Yeah, they went wild yeah, they went wild.
Em G
Yeah, they went wild yeah, they went wild.
D G Bm Em A D G Bm Em A
G A D
Just when I get so lonesome I can't speak,
Bm G Em A
I see some flowers on a hill side, like a wall of new TVs.
Em G
Yeah, they went wild. yeah, they went wild.
Em G
Yeah, they went wild. yeah, they went wild.
D Em
Yeah, they went wild. yeah, they went wild.
G Em
Yeah, they went wild. yeah, they went wild.
G G2 G G2 C C2 C C2
well i know that it is freezing but i think we have to walk
G G2 G G2 C C2 C C2
I keep waving to the taxis they keep turning their lights off
Am D Dsus2 D Dsus2
but julie knows a party at some actor's westside loft
Am C Am D G G2 G G2
supplies are endless in the evening by the morning they'll be gone
G G2 G G2 C C2 C C2
When everything gets lonely I can be my own best friend
G G2 G G2 C C2 C C2
I'll grab a coffee and the paper; have my own conversations
Am D Dsus2 D Dsus2
With the sidewalk and the pigeons and my window reflection
Am C Am D G G2 G G2
The mask I polish in the evening, by the morning looks like shit
Am7(002213) G
and i know you have a heavy heart i can feel it when we kiss
Am7 G Dsus(000230)
and many men stronger than me have thrown their backs out tryin to lift it
Am Em G D C
but me im not a gamble you can count on me to split
Am C Am D G G2 G G2
the love i show you in the evening by the morning won't exist
G G2 G G2 C C2 C2
You're looking skinny like a model with your eyes all painted black
G G2 G G2 C C2 C2
You just keep going to the bathroom always say you'll be right back
Am D Dsus2 D Dsus2
Well it takes one to know one, kid, I think you've got it bad
Am C Am D G G2 G G2
But what's so easy in the evening, by the morning is such a drag.
G G2 G G2 C C2 C2
I've got a flask inside my pocket we can share it on the train
G G2 G G2 C C2 C2
If you promise to stay conscious I will try and do the same
Am D Dsus2 D Dsus2
We might die from medication, but we sure killed all the pain
Am C Am D G G2 G G2
But what was normally in the evening, by the morning seems insane.
Am7 G
And I'm not sure what the trouble was that started all of this
Am7 G Dsus(000232)
The reasons have run away but the feeling never did
Am Em G D C
It's not something I would recommend, but it is one way to live
Am C Am D G G2 G G2
Cause what is simple in the moonlight, by the morning never is
Am C Am D Em
What's so simple in the moonlight, now its so complicated.
Am C Am C G
What's so simple in the moonlight, so simple in the moonlight
A
A E
You were born inside of a raindrop
D A
I watched you falling to your death
A E
And the sun, well it could not save you
D A
It'd fallen down too, the streets are wet
A E
Body of water, toxic and timeless
D A
The Atlantic ocean, New York skyline
A E
I always get lost when I leave the village
D A
So I couldn't come meet you in Brooklyn last night
A E
But I sing glory for my lowest
D E
And I will say peace to the people at me
A E
While the world waits for an explosion
D A
That instant of life that wipes that slate clean
F# E
So don't be fooled
F# E
So don't be lied to
C# F# B E
Love was always cruel
F# E
Don't act strange
F# E
Don't be a stranger
C# F# B E
It happened to me, now it's happening to you
D
But if you take that train underwater then we could talk it through
A E D A A E D A
A E
Well if I could tame all of my desires
D A
Wait out the weather that howls in my brain
A E
Because it seems that it's always changing
D A
The wind's indecision, the sorrowful rain
A E
I was a postcard, I was a record
D A
I was a camera until I went blind
A E
Now I'm riding all over this island
D E
Looking for something to open my eyes
A E
Well we still sing glory from a highrise
D A
And I will say thanks if you're pouring my drinks
A E
While the world waits for an explosion
D A
That moment in time when we are set free
F# E
So don't stay mad
F# E
Just let some time pass
C# F# B E
And in the morning you'll wake feeling new
F# E
And if I don't come back
F# E
I mean, if I get sidetracked
C# F# B E
It's only 'cause I wanted to
D
Keeping up with the moon on an all night avenue
A E D A
C E Am F G C x2(Pick)
C E Am
This is the first day of my life
F G C
Swear I was born right in the doorway
C E Am
I went out in the rain, suddenly everything changed
D7(000212) G
They're spreading blankets on the beach
C E Am
Yours is the first face that I saw
F G C
Think I was blind before I met you
C E Am
Don't know where I am, don't know where I've been
D7 G
But I know where I want to go
C G Am
So I thought I'd let you know
F G
That these things take forever
C C/B Am
I especially am slow
D2(003230) C
But I realized how I need you and I wondered if I could come home
C G Am D2(003230) F2(006560) F?(006568)
C E Am
I remember the time you drove all night
F G C
Just to meet me in the morning
C E Am
I thought it was strange, you said everything changed
D7 G
You felt as if you'd just woke up
C E Am
And you said, "This is the first day of my life.
F G C
I'm glad I didn't die before I met you.
C E Am
Now I don't care, I could go anywhere with you,
D7 G
And I'd probably be happy."
C G Am
So if you want to be with me
F G
With these things there's no telling
C C/B Am
We'll just have to wait and see
D2 C
But I'd rather be working for a paycheck than waiting to win the lottery
C E Am D2 C
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
B
B E
i'm changin all my strings i'm gonna write another travelin' song
B F#
about all the million highways and the cities at the break of dawn
B E
i guess the best that i can do now is pretend that i done nothin wrong
F# E B
and to dream about a train thats gonna take back where i belong
B E
The ocean speaks and spits and I can feel it from the interstate.
B F#
and I'm screaming my brother on a cell phone, he is far away.
B E
I'm saying nothing in the past or the future ever will feel like today.
F# E B
I tell him park it in the alley and just hoping that our shit is safe.
E B
So I go back and forth forever
E B
All my thoughts they come in pairs
E F#
Oh, I will, I won't, I doubt, I don't
C#m E F# B
I'm not surprised, and I never feel quite prepared
And now my ashtray's overflowing, I'm still staring at a clean, white page. F# E B
The morning's at my window and she's sending me to bed again.
B E
Well I dreamed of dark on the horizon, I dreamed of desert where the dead lay down.
B F#
I dreamed a prostituted child touching an old man in a fast food crowd.
B E
Oh yeah I dreamt the ship was sinking there were people screaming all around
F# E B
and I awoke to my alarm clock, it was a pop song, it was playing loud.
E B
So I will find my fears and face them,
E B
Or I will cower like a dog.
E F#
I'll kick and scream or kneel in glee,
C# E F# B
I'll fight like hell to hide that I'm giving up!
B B B B
C G C
If you walk away, I'll walk away
C G C
First tell me which road you will take
Am G C Am
I don't want to risk our paths crossing some day
C G C
So you walk that way, I'll walk this way
C G C
And the future hangs over our heads
C G C
And it moves with each current event
Am G C Am
Until it falls all around like a cold steady rain
C G C
Just stay in when it's looking this way
C G C
And the moon's laying low in the sky
C G C
Forcing everything metal to shine
Am G C Am
And the sidewalk holds diamonds like the jewelry store case
C G C
They argue walk this way, now walk this way
C G C
And Laura's asleep in my bed
C G C
As I'm leaving she wakes up and says
Am G C Am
"I dreamed you were carried away on the crest of a wave
C G C
Baby don't go away, come here"
C G C
And there's kids playing guns in the street
C G C
And ones pointing his tree branch at me
Am G C Am
So I put my hands up I say "enough is enough,
C G C
If you walk away, I'll walk away"
Am G C
I found a liquid cure
Am G C
From my landlocked blues
F G C Am
It'll pass away like a slow parade
C G C
It's leaving but I don't know how soon
C G C C G C Am G C Am C G C
C G C
And the world's got me dizzy again
C G C
You think after 22 years I'd be used to the spin
Am G C Am
And it only feels worse when I stay in one place
C G C
So I'm always pacing around or walking away
I keep drinking the ink from my pen
C G C C G C Am G C Am C G C
Am G C
So I'm up at dawn
Am G C
Putting on my shoes
F G C Am
I just want to make a clean escape
C G C
I'm leaving but I don't know where to
C G C
I know I'm leaving but I don't know where to
A Dsus3
poison oak some boyhood bravery
A Dsus3
when a telephone was a tin can on a string
F#/A(202220) E
and i fell asleep with you still talking to me
A Dsus3 A Dsus3
you said you weren't afraid to die
A Dsus3
in polaroids you were dressed in womans clothes
A
were you made ashamed?
Dsus3
why'd you lock them in the drawer? F#/A E
well i don't think that i ever loved you than when
A
you turned away
Dsus3
when you slammed the door Fm7(200230)
when you stole the car
Em7(020230)
drove towards mexico
A
and you wrote bad checks
Dsus3
just to fill your arm Fm7
i was young enough
Em7
i still believed in war
A Fm7 A Fm7
E Fm7(200230)
but let the poets cry themselves to sleep
E Fm7
an all there tearful words will turn back into steam
A Dsus3
me i'm a single cell on the serpents tongue
Fm7 Em7
theres a muddy field where the garden was
A
well im glad you got away
Dsus3
but i'm still stuck out here Fm7
my clothes are soaking wet
Em7
from your brothers tears
A Fm7 A Fm7
E Fm7
and i never thought this life was possible
E
your the yellow bird
Fm7
that i've been waiting for
A
the end of paralysis
D
i was a statuette
Fm7
now i'm drunk as hell
Em7
on a piano bench
A
and when i press the keys
D
its all gets reversed
Fm7
the sound of loneliness
Em7
makes me happier
A Fm7 A Fm7
C
Em Am
I read the body count out of the paper
F G C
And now it's written all over my face
Em Am
No one ever plans to sleep out in the gutter
F G C
Sometimes that's just the most comfortable place
Em Am
So when you're asked to fight a war that's over nothing
F G C
It's best to join the side that's gonna win
Em Am
And no one's sure how all of this got started
F G C
But we're gonna make them goddam certain how its gonna end
C
Oh ya we will, oh ya we will!
C
Well I could have been a famous singer
If I had someone else's voiceBut failure's always sounded better C C C C
Lets fuck it up boys, make some noise!
C C C C C C C