Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

budup bup bee duduh bap

 budup bup bee duduh bap

 Bah dubam ba ba x2

Dear god, I'm trying hard to reach you

Dear god, I see your face in all I do

Sometimes it's so hard to believe in

Good god I know you have your reasons

Dear god I see you move the mountains

Dear god I see you moving trees

Sometimes it's nothing to believe in

Sometimes it's everything I see

 Well I've been thinking about,

 And I've been breaking it down without an answer

 I know I'm thinking aloud but if your loves

 Still around why do we suffer? Why do we suffer?

Dear god, I wish that I could touch you

How strange sometimes I feel I almost do

And then I'm back behind the glass again

Oh god what keeps you out it keeps me in

 Well I've been thinking about,

 And I've been breaking it down without an answer

 I know I'm thinking aloud but if your loves

 Still around why do we suffer? Why do we suffer?

Verse 1

Everyone grows old on the gold coast

 It takes a lot of hope to grieve

Everyone gets dark and the worst part

 Is the way those thoughts can please you

Personality like a split screen

 See yourself down your knees

Chorus

Hold out your hand

Hold out your hand, darling

Hold out your hand

Say please

Solo

repeat Verse chords x2

Verse 2

Everyone gives up down on hard luck

 On hope ain't enough it seems

Everyone gets lost in their own fog

 Have to wonder on with lantern dreams

Bridge

Say please, please

 Just say something

Speak up, please

 If its what youre looking for

Hold out your hand

Hold out your hand, darling

Hold out your hand

Say please

Hold out your hand

Hold out your hand, darling

Hold out your hand

Say please

END ON A

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Intro

Well...

I got a lot, lord I've got a lot of losin'

Friends and heroes are packin up and movin

One of these days I'll be left with nothin but

Memories and no time

So I better get, yeah I better get accustomed

Cause I got a lot, lord I got a lotta losin

By and by and by and by and

By, well

We never got paid but we had a lotta laughs though

Runnin like thieves through the streets of Chicago

Look at me now, Im leanin out a Portland window, singin

"I still miss someone"

So I better get, yeah, I better get accustomed

Cause, I got a lot lord, I got a lotta losin

By and by and by and by and

By, well

Pickin up speed, I'm pickin up the pieces

Losin leaves in every season

The winter ends right at my feet with

Flowers creepin up through the crack in the concrete, well...

I got a lot, lord I got a lot of losin'

Friends and heroes are packin up and movin

One of these days I'll be left with nothin but

Memories and no time

So I better get, yeah I better get accustomed

Cause I got a lot, lord I got a lotta losin

By and by and by and by and

By, well

Pickin up speed, I'm pickin up the pieces

Losin leaves in every season

The winter ends right at my feet with

Flowers creepin up through the crack in the concrete, well...

I got a lot, lord I got a lot of losin'

Friends and heroes are packin up and movin

One of these days I'll be left with nothin but

Memories and no time

So I better get, yeah I better get accustomed

Cause I got a lot, lord I got a lotta losin

By and by and by and by and

By and by and by and by and

By

putting on my power, righteous as a rose

dynamite the mountain, now I'm walking up the road

the love we made at gunpoint wasn't love at all

the dancing in the valley, the moon's the mirrored ball

blew open my mind, now it's an empty room

swinging in the hammock, dogs are walking across the roof

i watch you braid your hair, you're from another time

when the earth wasn't so angry, and god was on our side

searching west and east

and all points in-between

 and underneath the lines of thought

 you're there and then you're not

the mayans stole tomorrow, hid it underground

we've combed with heavy magnets but it still hasn't been found

i'm sweating out my secrets in the temazcal

they're screaming in the calle that a star's about to fall

looking through the trees

cities and the seas

 things we've seen

 ovnis on the lawn

 they're there and then they're gone

there and then they’re gone

 there and then they're gone

 there and then they're gone

 there and then they're gone

 there and then they're gone

 there and then they're gone

 there and then they're gone

 there and then they're gone

searching west and east

all points in between

 and underneath the hand of god

 you're there and then you're not

 you're there and then you're not

Great song. Great album. One of my new favourite Jim James efforts. Enjoy!

Intro

Chorus

 Do you like where you're living,

 Do you like what you do

 Do you like what youre seeing,

 When you're lookin at you

 Do you like what youre saying

 When you open your face

 Do you got the right feeling

 Are you in the right place

Verse 1

Stealin a tusk from an elephant must make one feel creepy inside

 And although youll boast around the fire at night

That ghost will kick up a fight

Be gone Be gone you scream

Youre just some elephant dream

I needed you like you needed me

People they need piano keys

Chorus

Verse 2

Same chord pattern as Verse 1):

Is this right, is this right, come on God answer tonight

Is there some fee that you'll charge me

For doing what you thought I might

Once you've thought long and hard about it,

Tell me if heads will roll

Once you've thought long and hard about it,

Tell me cause I need to know

Chorus

We gotta stand a little closer to what it is we're leanin' on

Who was it that first said it? Could it be he could be wrong

 About the pilgrims and the natives

Having dinner on the lawn?

 I think if I was ever king I would buy a censorship

Where the only books upon the shelves Were the ones that I had written

 Oh, and put them up in borders, set my photo down the spine

 To tell the story of the livin' without forgettin' those who'd died

 And I would die a happy man 'Cause I did the best that I could do

 To find a better way of leading, Should we leave that up to you?

Who was the one that said it, Yeah the one who said it best?

 You got to L-O-V-E your neighbors, at least the ones who are still left

And we gotta stand a little closer

To the lessons that we've learned

Is it just a premonition?

Could we really get ourselves both burned?

I've been sent here on a mission to find what we agree upon

We don't agree about September,

Could we agree on Vietnam?

I think if I was ever publisher I'd buy a pirate ship

Where the mission at each position is to shoot and to click

Clean the photos up a little, censor the ship out of it

So when we put it up in borders, turn a profit on the trip

Charge the public for the overhead of 1492

And if they need a better reason tell them we got livin' proof

And I would die a happy man

'Cause I did the best that I could do

To find a better way of leading,

Should we leave that up to you

Who was it that said it?

Yeah that's what I'm trying to say

You got to L-O-V-E your neighbors, at least the ones that live today

Hey, hey

Dont ever buy nothin' from a man named truth.

Dont ever buy nothin' from a man named truth.

Tell you right now boy it aint no use

Dont ever buy nothin' from a man named truth.

Pain was hunting me down, but I gave him the slip

I left the city through a tunnel and I headed for the sticks

With oregano oil and a morphine drip

Pain was hunting me down, but I gave him the slip

And I fell in love with identical twins

They'd lived 34 summers between the two of them

I gave one my ego, gave one my id

Yeah, I gotta get back to my pretty little twins

Don't ever buy nothing from a man named Truth

Don't ever buy nothing from a man named Truth

I'll tell you right now that it ain't no use

Don't ever buy nothing from a man named Truth

I was lost for a year in those almond trees

The sun was rising in the South and setting in the East

I was half awake, I was half asleep

I thought I would never get out of those almond trees

So don't think too slow in the syrupy sun

You'll get buried alive when the caterpillar come

Tapping your time on a congo drum

Don't think too slow in the syrupy sun

I met a black skinned man with an ice cream grin

And a blond Afghan with that heroin

We moved to the mountains where the highway ends

And I got myself that ice cream grin

So don't search too long for that Aztec gold

Like old Cortez, gonna lose your soul

Turn an honest man into Diablo

Don't trade your soul for no Aztec gold

And never buy nothing from a man named Truth

Never buy nothing from a man named Truth

Look in my eyes and you see the proof

Don't ever buy nothing from a man named Truth

Don't ever buy nothing from a man named Truth

Don't ever buy nothing from a man named Truth

Don't ever buy nothing from a man named Truth

I learned a good way (good way)

I learned a good way (good way)

I learned a good way of saying goodbye

I learned a good way (good way)

I learned a good way (good way)

 You taught me everything I know about taking other people for a ride

 And I just wanted to take the time to thank you for that gift tonight

I learned a good way (good way)

I learned a good way (good way)

I learned a good way of saying goodbye

I learned a good way (good way)

I learned a good way (good way)

 You taught me everything I know about taking other people for a ride

 And I just wanted to take the time to thank you for that gift tonight

Yes. We'll drive up to the forest and wait 'til the moon is up above and

we'll smear mud and pomegranate seeds on our faces, build a giant fire and

wait for the sun to put it out. We'll be fed and nurtured back to health by

out surrogate ample parents. You'll eat variants from the bushes. I'll

learn to fly and you'll learn to fish and I'll fly down to the river to join

you...and when we're strong and healthy and ready we'll return to the human

world with new skills and a new perspective. We'll be free. Yours, always.

Good way

Good way

Good way

I've listened to it a bunch and I think this is closer to the song on the album.

I am not positive about the Dm11, but I know it's not just a D.

Intro

Another perfect day

They keep piling up

I got happiness

 that I can't maintain so beginner's luck

I had shoes to fill

Walkin' barefoot now

Can't tell north from south

 but no split hair's gonna get me down now

Chorus

add9

Stayin' 'bove the flat line

I'm ahead of the curve

Take a piece of the sunshine with me

 on a red eye flight to another world

add9

It isn't any trouble

if you wanna come with me

I know it's out of the question, honey

 but I sure could use the company

 and a place to be

Verse

Now the sky is pink

Roof top swimmin' pool

I'm not care free, no

 I'm free to care, I just never do

All the bags are checked

and the reasons why

Yesterday lingers on

 That's the peace you can keep when you say goodbye

Chorus

add9

You can get what you want now

Knock it out of the park

Bury it by the river

 Easy, there's a search party but it's gettin' dark

add9

I won't hold you to nothin'

I wanna make that plain

Probably end up a stranger and crazy

 but I'm still hoping there's another way

 and a place to stay

Bridge

What a scene has gotcha' sentimental

when the night comes, when the night comes loose

All the things you've put up on the mantle

 What a shame, what a shame, it's old news

Chorus

  add9

I'm stayin' 'bove the flat line

I'm ahead of the curve

Take a piece of the sunshine with me

 on an all night drive to another world

add9

You can get what you want now

Knock it out of the park

Probably end up a drifter and lonely

 but I'm still hoping for a change of heart

 and a place, a place, a place to start

Slow ... Down ... Jo ...

Anybody ever tell you that you move too fast

Anybody ever tell you how to make a good thing last?

 Cuz it ain't like that . . .

 First you gotta slow down Jo.

Last night I was talking to some friends of mine.

AJ's afraid you're gonna kill your time or lose your mind

 If you don't slow down Jo.

Anybody ever tell you if you lose the knack.

Anybody ever tell you that it's true

 You can get it back? But not like that

It ain't by kicking down the walls & pissing off your friends.

Every time the cards don't fall your way.

 It ain't by poking out your eyes when you see something you don't like.

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Even your mama said she don't want to see you spent at 25

Losin' Yo Head

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The little fill where they say "stop!" is: A("stop!") DDD

Put the fills where necessary and enjoy!

 Intro

comin home alone at night i'm so scared!

turn on all the lights, check underneath the stairs

open all the closets, make sure they're no monsters in there!

livin in a small house, it's fairly easy to check.

if i were livin in a mansion, i'd probably just sleep out on the deck.

heaving on the boulder, just trying to move it an inch...

i think i'm gettin closer, i think i'm gettin bolder, but then it starts to slip...

and i keep makin the same old faces again.

partyin with strangers or stickin with close friends instead...

it don't matter what you're doin, as long as you're losin your head.

out ridin the range, or layin with you here in bed...

it don't matter what i'm doin, as long as i'm losing my head.

way back when the smallest trip was the greatest quest.

now sometimes i get bored, even tho i know i'm blessed.

comin and goin like we do it's hard to keep friends I know firsthand...

i'm tired of doing nothin, feel like we should be makin plans.

we need a little thrill i can see it in our faces, yeah, turn off the tv set.

the feeling of adventure, i think we all remember it.

partyin with strangers or stickin with close friends instead...

it don't matter what i'm doin, as long as i'm losing my head.

out ridin the range, or layin with you here in bed...

it don't matter what i'm doin, as long as i'm losing my head.

A until end, fills where appropriate, end on A.

Fill

Verse 1

 Just because it's not accepted, doesn't mean it ain't alright.

 Just another frozen kid, who's trying to make it through tonight.

Ordinary pens and notebooks, ain't no ordinary life.

All the freaked out measures I took, trying to make you sickos smile.

Chorus

Fill (At the bottom)

 Ordinary don't mean nothing no-how, look what's ordinary now.

Fill

It's got a magic marker stain on its face and it needs a shower.

Verse 2

There's something sweet waiting in the center - taste and see.

There's something sweet waiting in the center.

Don't nobody look at me,

Don't nobody look at me!

Chorus

Fill (At the bottom)

 Ordinary don't mean nothing no-how, look what's ordinary now.

Fill

It's got a magic marker stain on its face and it needs a shower.

Verse 3

How many licks does it take to get? Taste and see.

How many licks does it take to get to the center where there's something

sweet.

 To the center where there's something sweet.

Solo

Outro

Ordinary don't mean nothing no-how, look what's ordinary now x4

Look what's ordinary now

Look what's ordinary now

Look at ordinary now

End on D

Fill

 there's a map of the world on a wall in your room

 green pins where you wanna go

 white pins where you`ve been, there isn't even ten

 and you're already feeling old

 Pretty faces stare back from a magazine stack

 that you read when you're feeling bored

 look through a telescope lens, it doesn't make sense

 you think you've been there before

Chorus

 some far off feeling, some upclose kind of ache

 a widescreen reason to, look the other way

there's a place by the lake that you go when it's late

it's summer and the crowds are gone

then you sit all alone, with your thoughts getting stoned

just waiting for some peace so come

like a thing that you tried, that you thought that you liked

for a minute then it all felt wrong

so you're changing again, all your clothes all your friends

it's the same as it ever was

some far off feeling, some upclose kind of ache

some widescreen reason to, look the other way

ayyyyyyyyyyaya ooooo ooo ooo

ayyyyyyyyyyaya ladum, ladum

Its a road that you've paved over indian graves

and you wonder why your dreams are crazed

so you cling to your wife, your kids and your life

theres nothing that you're gunna save

put the razor to your face, hot water for a shave

kill the shadow of yesterday

clean shirt, clean pants, clean slate, second chance

you're going by another name

some far off feeling, some upclose kind of ache

that instant comma, it always come too late

ayyyyyyyyyyaya oooooooooo

ayyyyyyyyyyaya ladum, ladum

Alternate bass picking on chords as follows:

etc.

Intro

For the first line of verse 2 the latter part of the intro is repeated with the melody, i.e.

Verse 1

 The Brakeman is letting off some steam,

This has to be the slowest train that I have ever seen

 and the Sandman's waiting to deliver me my dream,

 Guess I'll lay my head against my elbow and the window

 Watch the wheels go, Watch the wheels go,

Chorus

 Roll on, Roll on oh little train

Brakeman blow your whistle, throw your weight upon the chain

 Make way, for whatever will be, will be

 Between the Sandman, the Brakeman, and me.

Verse 2

And the Sandman's waiting to deliver me my dream, deliver me my dream, deliver me my dream,

 Today

 Guess I'll lay my head against my elbow and the window

 Let my wheels go, let my wheels go

Main Riff ...He hears his master's voice...

...Calling...like the lady...

This is basically the whole song...just keep picking and it should sound good even if you

just pick the chords themselves the whole time...

mohammed rolling dice with christ at twilight

and they hear their master's voice.. they run to do their chores

at master's calling.

their job tonite: re-write the bible

for a whole new generation of non-believers.

the pastor screams out to the crowd:

"there's evil that must be put down!"

and it touches the soldier boy.. he heeds his master's voice

his life is calling.

sweet soldier boy.. the speaker is bleeding

he hears his master's voice.. do you hear your master's voice?

CALLING.. like the lady siren's call.

sweet soldier quiet- just staring at the ceiling

and he hears his master's voice.. he hears the call to war

the siren's singing.

out on the line- there's something that strikes his side

and he sees his inner child.. he hears his mother's voice

softly calling.

spirit soldiers mother hovers.. she holds up a paper cup

and the sound of life and love fills her ear.

you're only gonna hear what you want to hear..

do you hear your master's voice now?

mohammed and christ speak twice as nice

but the one that i like best- he sings inside my chest

i hear my master's voice now

calling out.. calling out.. calling out.. calling out..

END.