Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Oh, oh, oh brother totem pole

I saw your legends lined up

 And I never felt more natural

 Apart, I just came apart

Please, please, please sister Socrates

You always answer with a question

 Show some kindness to a petty thief

 Forgive, you did forgive

 Watch the migrants smoke in the old orange grove

 And the red rocket blaze over Cape Canaveral

 You’ve been a father to me In 1960’s speak

 In the comatose joy like we’re on TV

 While the mountain’s side was shining

 Wild colors of my destiny

 I watched your face age backwards

 Changing shape in my memory

 You taught me victory’s sweet

 Even deep in the cheap seats

Hey, hey, hey mother interstate

Can you deliver me from evil

 Make me honest make me wedding cake

 Atone, I will atone

Wait, wait, wait mighty outer-space

All that flying saucer terror

 Made me lazy drinking lemonade

 A waste, it just went to waste

 Like the Freon cold out the hotel door

 Or the white rocket fade over Cape Canaveral

 You’ve been a daughter to me your buried shoe-box grief

 I felt your poltergeist love like savannah heat

 While the waterfall was pouring

 Crazy symbols of my destiny

 I watched your face die backwards

 Little baby in my memory

 You told me victory's sweet

 Even deep in the cheap seats

And you don’t judge me

 That’s not your style

 But I won’t see you

 for a little while

 And there’s no worries, oh lord

 Whose got time

 All these changes are going to fill your mind

 Like the citrus glow off the old orange grove

 Or the red rocket blaze over Cape Canaveral

 It’s been a nightmare to me Some 1980’s greed

 Gives me parachute dreams Like old war movies

 While the universe was drawn Perfect circles form infinity

 I watched the stars get smaller

 Tiny diamonds in my memory

 I know that victory is sweet

 Even deep in the cheap seats