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