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

[a] Dsus3

poison oak some boyhood bravery

[a] Dsus3

when a telephone was a tin can on a string

 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

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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

[a] Dsus3

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