Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

 In care of his contraption mad camp hill rail operator woman

Is she speaking from the heart?

 Maybe blasting from another world?

 Or just the emissary of a higher court inside the body of a girl?

Does she want to take control?

 When her eight track breaks down will she take my bus home?

 In care of his contraption mad camp hill rail operator woman

Is this some sort of reverie for the

One woman Jan and Dean heading for the crash?

Is she half who she ought to be

Or a overdue prodigy

Whose unsolicited view of your present's confused with her past?

At a table by the door

Of my moment but she can't sit still,

And when I crash upon the floor she'll come across the stage

and finish out the bill,

She throws one switch and all trains are in space

What she lays on those tracks you can't ever erase

 In care of his contraption mad camp hill rail operator woman, yeah

HOMEFRONT CAMEO

Everything is better the boss has made a cameo

He has seen the infidel army like a prince of old

Listen to him twist her faith, he's been out there all day

Sleeping on the laurels of a face from long ago

As matters complicate, it's a terrible thing to wait

Everything is better the boss has made a cameo

He has seen the infidel army like a prince of old

She's made the bed three times today

Each a masterpiece in its own way and takes his name in vain

From this vantage point she is making her plans

Kiss good-bye to this your century map

She calls her future back ,takes his wine from the rack

He wants a glass of water but she sweetly mouths her no

Then like an arrow she's let go, Arcing from he poison beau

Everything is better the boss has made a cameo

She has seen the infidel army like a prince of old

SPIN MY WHEELS

You run away with my sleep and I'm stuck in here so deep

I had a terrible dream and I can't wake up it seems

In my parallel field, what's imagined is real

For you I conceal, all that I feel and girl you spin my wheels

I've got a terrible mind, maybe desperate or unkind

Thinking of ways to dispose of the ones we say we love the most

I want to carry you home, I want to see you alone

For we will never show all that we feel and girl you spin my wheels

MY BEFORE AND AFTER

She picked me out of the millions

 Thumbing an OED

Dressed me down to civilian

Cracked the code on the Rosetta Stone

Said the word for alone is "alone"

My before and after her

We found that R Mutt was truly

 some work of genius she helped my best friends see through me

Said the church of his holiness lied

This world's no dead end it's park and ride

My before and after her

Now I'm dangerously reprogrammed man

Like that guy in the Manchurian

My before and after her

PRIVATE RUTH

She used to love me and that was such an obstacle

Running around in the bad hand-me-downs of someone else's girl

She's pulling my name and making a face

As if to say all that you've been has been erased

Private Ruth, you hate

She's tired of loving the ones she knows she's better than

Moving the men on a chessboard full of all her so called friends

Or maybe she just wants me a drone

Proclaiming edicts from the queen bee in her cone

Private Ruth, you hate

VEGETABLE ROW

I hear when you talk that not much goes on

And now I think you might be the dark right before my dawn

And the clouds have made a fissure I've arranged that for you mister

So that you can go ahead and prematurely start the process of preserving

You look so afraid and I can see why

You just turned your back on a very dangerous guy

And the bells ring with a vengeance as we witness your ascension

To a land where they can things better than all the "Bells of Rhymny"

On vegetable row, vegetable row. On vegetable row, vegetable row

Think of us in your new haunt

They must have let classes out early those days

And I bet you were the funniest clown at the front of the hip parade

Now you shadows swirl around us take us back to where you found us

Crawl back underneath you couch and tell us things are a little bit skewed

On vegetable row, vegetable row. On vegetable row, vegetable row

I'm thinking of a place where times your boss

And now you just can't wait

To turn in your only key, pass your baton to me,

Sell yourself penny cheap and never stop to total up the cost

Some people give up on the third or fourth try

And some can make a career out of just trying to say good-bye

They've been holding your place someone's here to fill that space

And it's a mighty act of grace you won't have me around

To check you vital signs On vegetable row... Think of us in your new haunt

AURORA BORI ALICE

Alice can you hear me, tonight the sky's not clearing

You'll never see Cassiopeia

You're there at your department, I'm here in your apartment

Another night I'll spend alone

A girl, her telescope, and the great unknown

Alice in ugly weather

You said we'd be together, and not afraid to let it show

The Pleiades behind her, Orion should remind her

Of summer boy she's got at home

She loves her telescope more than I'd known, oh...

Aurora Bori Alice, do you think there's someone out in space for you?

I want to be the man to change your point of view

And if your hear me Alice, redirect your looking glass to earthly heights

See a man who loves you so much more than Northern Lights

CHURCH OF WILSON

(use barred chords throughout)

Give yourself away if you want

 How did your Daddy get so gaunt

It's a pretty face that you know

What's a boy to do when a girl's untrue

Put your bell on your bike

And its not my right to kill son

I'm an acolyte from the mighty

Church of Wilson

Yeah the world's a mess and I know

 You don't need me to tell you so

Who's it gonna hurt to be Kings

Playing I the shiny things

Want to make my move to

the throwback groove

While there's stream in the pipes

And its not my right to kill son

I'm an acolyte from the mighty

Church of Wilson

Church of Wilson

LILLY DREAMS ON

Lily I hope you picture me in your dreams

Put down your King James Bible, You don't need no kings

Close you eyes, baby I'll dry mine

Echoes through the phone

 Far from this, Lily dreams on

Think back to fields of Catherine, you used to play

I swore I heard you laughing

And almost say

Pull you mirrors down, Run back to the house

And let the past be gone

 Far from this, Lily dreams on

ANIMAL SHOW DRINKING SONG

Took an exit sign to a world of motel time

 Where we walk a crooked line and high is low

Trust your sad MC, time to kill the bar Tele

 When the lights come on you'll see we're still alone

 Watch the saints weave slow

 From the animal show, animal show, animal show

PASSWORD

Lift your latch and let me pass that's all I'm asking girl

 and forgive what's unorthodox

 I fashioned this to slip your locks so we might have a word

We had a fight I won last night but who slept outside girl?

What if I'm wrong, help me along to give a bit and still look strong

I want to tell the world

Key to the lock of the heard Password, is something I believe we've earned

 And If you're told I'm bought and sold and soulless to be sure

Your friends would fight for your advice

"it must be weird, he looked so nice, you're such a lucky girl"

Key to the lock of the heard Password, its something I believe we've earned

Password, give us back what we deserve

SHES ONLY COOL

She mixes you up and makes you come down

And I'm gone enough to fall for that now

She's only cool tonight and I've lost your sight

 But that lullaby can never get me home

I've seen a few things I think you could say

My words fail me now and its better that way

She's only cool tonight and I've lost your sight

 But that lullaby can never get me home

Each night that I spend away is one more I have to behave

 But she makes it seem so uncool not to cave, she's only cool tonight...

AUTUMN BIRDS

 Intro

Prayed for "Endless Summer" made a wish to "Little Wing"

 But you gave the world your number and your phone won't ring

 Uh oh...begging for an early heart attack... Uh oh

You've seen the great migration from the world that's locked in ice

 And you wear your change of station like a faded sticker price

 Uh oh...begging for an early heart attack... Uh oh

Ah surrender she flew

 Under sun split sky drenched crystalline blue

 Where autumn's birds are killing you

In your long coat down by the song tree

Are you watching a girl no one else can see

From the days of enervation man you need some elevation

Would that the explanation were just part of some bad dream

And when you think you're with it still, the girls know who you are

 You could say the sky's the limit, but you'll never be a star

 Uh oh...begging for an early heart attack Uh oh...

Ah surrender she flew

Under sun split sky drenched crystalline blue

 Where autumn's birds are killing you