Standard (EADGBE)

Oh, how it's been so long

We're so sorry we've been gone

We were busy writing songs for

you

Oh, how it's been so long

We're so sorry we've been gone

We were busy writing songs for

You don't have to worry 'cause we're still the same

You don't have to worry

You don't have to worry

 you don't

You don't have to worry

You don't have to worry

 you don't

Oh, how it's been so long

We're so sorry we've been gone

 We were busy writing songs for

you

2.)nine in the afternoon

Back to the street where we began

 Feeling as good as lovers can, you know

 Yeah we're feeling so good

Picking up things we shouldn't read

 Looks like the end of history as we know

 It's just the end of the world

Back to the street where we began

Feeling as good as love, you could, you can

Into a place where thoughts can bloom

 Into a room where it's nine in the afternoon

 And we know that it could be

And we know that it should

 And you know that you feel it to

 ‘Cause it's nine in the afternoon

 And your eyes are the size of the moon

 You could ‘cause you can so you do

 We're feeling so good, just the way that we do

 When it's nine in the afternoon

 Your eyes are the size of the moon

 You could ‘cause you can so you do

 We're feeling so good

Back to the street, down to our feet

 Losing the feeling of feeling unique

 Do you know what I mean?

Back to the place where we used to say,

 "Man it feels good to feel this way"

 Now I know what I mean

[G/f#]

Back to the street, back to the place

  [G/f#]

Back to the room where it all began

Back to the room where it all began

 'Cause it's nine in the afternoon

 Your eyes are the size of the moon

 You could ‘cause you can so you do

 We're feeling so good, just the way that we do

 When it's nine in the afternoon

 Your eyes are the size of the moon

 You could ‘cause you can so you do

 We're feeling so good, just the way that we do

 When it's nine in the afternoon

 Your eyes are the size of the moon

 You could ‘cause you can so you do

 We're feeling so good, just the way that we do

 When it's nine in the afternoon

repeat chorus pattern till end

3.) she's a handsome woman

play 4X

Innocence.

 Sunk the glow and drowned in covers,

send for all your absent lovers things.

Sheepish Wolves.

 Looking lived in eating buttons,

Wink, just don’t put your teeth on me.

(play intro 2X)

Accidents.

 Let the evening in the backdoor,

filled the room ceiling to the floor.

Beat backbones.

 Grazed the poem and made it strange,

 I wasn’t born to be a skeleton.

(play intro through lines)

Go on,

grab your hat and fetch a camera.

Go on, film the world before it happens.

Jealous orchard.

 The sky is falling off the ceiling

 while I’m tucking fibs into a cookie jar.

Bombed reverie.

 It’s useless searching in the cupboards

 when everything you have is on your back.

(play intro through lines)

Go on,

grab your hat and fetch a camera.

Go on, film the world before it happens.

4.)do you know what i'm seeing?

Clouds are marching along, singing a song, just like they do.

If the clouds were singing a song, I'd sing along, wouldn't you too?

 If you just knew what they could do.

Oh, if you just knew, what would they do?

 And if the birds are just all the words flying along, singing a song,

 What would they do?

If they just knew what they could do.

Oh, if they just knew.

 I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather,

 And it never gave a damn about me.

 I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather,

 And it never gave a damn about me.

 No, it never gave a damn about me.

 I know it's mad, but if I go to hell

 Will you come with me or just leave?

 I know it's mad, but if the world were ending

 Would you kiss me or just leave me?

Just leave me?

Clouds are singing a song, marching along, just like they do.

If the clouds were playing a song, I'd play along, wouldn't you too?

 If you just knew what they could do.

Oh, if you just knew, what would they do?

 And if words are just hollow birds, flying along, singing a song,

 What would they do?

If they just knew what we could do.

Oh, if they just knew.

 I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather,

 And it never gave a damn about me.

 I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather,

 And it never gave a damn about me.

 No, it never gave a damn about me.

 I know it's mad, but if I go to hell

 Will you come with me or just leave?

 I know it's mad, but if the world were ending

 Would you kiss me or just leave me?

Just leave me?

 I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather,

 And it never gave a damn about me.

 I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather,

 And it never gave a damn about me.

 I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather,

 And it never gave a damn about me.

 I know it's sad that I never gave a damn about the weather,

 And it never gave a damn about me.

 No, it never gave a damn about me.

5.) that green gentleman

Things are shaping up to be pretty odd.

Little deaths in musical beds.

So it seems I'm someone I've never met.

You will only hear these elegant crimes,

Fall on your ears from criminal dimes.

They spill unfound from a pretty mouth.

everybody gets there and everybody gets there

 and everybody gets their way.

I never said I missed her when everybody kissed her, Now I'm the only one

 to blame.

Things have changed for me, and that's okay.

 I feel the same, I'm on my way, and I say.

Things have changed for me, and that's okay.

I want to go where everyone goes,

I want to know what everyone knows

I want to go where everyone feels the same

I never said I'd leave the city,

I never said I'd leave this town.

A falling out we won't tiptoe about.

everybody gets there and everybody gets there

 and everybody gets their way.

I never said I missed her when everybody kissed her,

Now I'm the only one to blame.

Things have changed for me, and that's okay.

 I feel the same, I'm on my way, and I say.

Things have changed for me, and that's okay.

 I feel the same and I say. (play 4X)

Things have changed for me (this last line is the best i can get)

6.) i have friends in holy spaces

You remind me of a former love that I once knew

 And you carry a little speech with you

We were holding hands walking through the middle of the street

 It's fine with me, I'm just taking in the scenery

 You remind me of a few of my famous friends

 Well, that all depends what you qualify as friends

 You remind me of a few of my famous friends

 Well, that all depends what you qualify as friends

Take a chance, take your shoes off, dance in the rain

 And I was flashing around and the news spread all over town

I'm not complaining that it's raining, I'm just saying that I like it a lot

 More than you think, if the sun would come out and sing with me

 You remind me of a few of my famous friends

 Well, that all depends what you qualify as friends

 You remind me of a few of my famous friends

 Well, that all depends what you qualify as friends

7.) northern downpour

If all our life is but a dream

 Fantastic posing greed

 Then we should feed our jewelery to the sea

 For diamonds do appear to be

 Just like broken glass to me

 And then she said she can’t believe

 Genius only comes along

 In storms of fabled foreign tongues

 Tripping eyes, and flooded lungs

 Northern downpour sends its love

Hey moon, please forget to fall down

Hey moon, don’t you go down

Sugarcane in the easy mornin’

Weathervanes my one and lonely

The ink is running toward the page

 It’s chasin’ off the days

 Look back at boat feet And that winding knee

 I missed your skin when you were east

 You clicked your heels and wished for me

Through playful lips made of yarn

 That fragile Capricorn

 Unraveled words like moths upon old scarves

 I know the world’s a broken bone

 But melt your headaches, call it home

Hey moon, please forget to fall down

Hey moon, don’t you go down

Sugarcane in the easy morning

Weathervanes my one and lonely

Sugarcane in the easy mornin’

Weathervanes my one and lonely

Sugarcane in The easy mornin’

Weathervanes my One and lonely (repeat and fade out)

8.) when the day met the night

 When the Moon fell in love with the Sun

 All was golden in the sky

 All was golden when the day met the night

 When the Sun found the Moon

 She was drinking tea out in a garden

 Under the green umbrella trees

 In the middle of summer

 When the moon found the sun

 He looked like he was barely hanging on

 But her eyes saved his life

 In the middle of summer (summer)

 In the middle of summer

 All was golden in the sky

 All was golden when the day met the night

Summer (summer)

 All was golden in the sky

 All was golden when the day met the night

Summer, summer, summer, summer

 All was golden when the day met the night

 So he said, "Would it be all right

 If we just sat and talked for a little while

 If in exchange for your time

 I give you this smile?"

 So she said, "That's okay

 As long as you can make a promise

 Not to break my little heart

 Or leave me all alone in the summer."

 Well he was just hanging around

 Then he fell in love

And he didn't know how

 But he couldn't get out

Just hanging around

 Then he fell in love

 In the middle of summer

 All was golden in the sky

 All was golden when the day met the night

Summer

 All was golden in the sky

 All was golden when the day met the night

Summer, summer, summer, summer

 (?)

 When the moon fell in love with the sun

 All was golden in the sky

 All was golden when the day met the night

Summer, summer, summer, summer

In the middle of summer,summer,summer, summer

the middle of summer, summer, summer, summer

the middle of summer, summer, summer, summer

In the middle of..

9.) Pas De Cheval

Oh, little did she know

 Couldn't let me go

 Already a part of her

So, often do I need

 People in between

 That just can't get a hold of it

 So we'll just sing it for them

Ahhh

 Yeah, we'll just sing it for them

(Just can't get a hold of it)

 So we'll just sing it for them

Ahhh

Yeah, we'll just sing it

 It's the greatest thing that's yet to have happened

 Imagine knowing me

 It's the greatest thing you'd ever imagine

 But you'll never know until you're there

 No, you'll never know until you're there

Slow, leave walking to the world

 Give your feet a chance

 They'll do all the thinking

 Toast, high until they find

 Less pathetic wine

 Until they get a better blend

 And we'll just drink it for them

 Ahhh

 Yeah we'll just drink it for them

(Until they get a better plan)

 So we'll just drink it for them

Yeah we'll just drink it

 It's the greatest thing that's yet to have happened

 Imagine knowing me

 It's the greatest thing you'd ever imagine

 But you'll never know until you're there

 No, you'll never know until you're there

 It's the greatest thing that's yet to have happened

 Imagine knowing me

 It's the greatest thing you'd ever imagine

 But you'll never know until you're there

 No, you'll never know until you're there

 No, you'll never know until you're there

10.) the piano knows something i don't know

I won't cut my beard and I won't change my hair

 It grows like fancy flowers but it grows nowhere

 My hair, my hair

 If I could build my house just like the Trojan horse

 I'd put a statue of myself upon the shelf

 Of course, of course, of course

She's the smoke

She's dancin' fancy pirouettes

Swan diving off of the deep end

Of my tragic cigarette

 She's steam

Laughing on the windowpanes

The never-ending swaying haze

Oh, that ever smiling maze

/ /Eb /C# ( notes)

Oh, that ever smiling maze

Ballet

Everything's gone missing

I've lost more songs to floods

I can't prove this makes any sense but

I sure hope that it does

 Perhaps

I was born with curiosity

The likes of those of old crows

 The likes of those of old crows

 And oh, how the piano knows

 The piano knows something

 I don't know

I won't cut my beard and I won't change my hair

 It grows like fancy flowers but it grows nowhere

 My hair, my hair

 If I could build my house just like the Trojan horse

 I'd put a statue of myself upon the shelf

 Of course, of course, of course

 Of course, of course, of course

 Of course, of course, of course

 Of course

11.) behind the sea

Our daydream spills from my gold head

 Breaks free of my wooden neck

Left a nod over sleeping waves

Like bobbing bait for bathing cod

 Floating flocks of candle swans

Slowly drift across wax ponds

The men all played along to marching drums

 And boy did they have fun behind the sea

 They sang, “so our matching legs are marching clocks

And we’re all too small to talk to god

 Yes, we’re all too smart to talk to god"

Toast the fine folks casting silver crumbs

 To us from the dock.

Jinxed things ringing as they leak

Through tiny cracks in the boardwalk.

 Scarecrow now it’s time to hatch

Sprouting sons and ageless daughters.

 Those watermelon smiles just can’t ripen underwater

Just can’t ripen underwater

The men all played along to marching drums

 And boy did they have fun behind the sea

 They sang, “so our matching legs are marching clocks

And we’re all too small to talk to god

 Yes, we’re all too smart to talk to god

 Yes, we’re all too smart to talk to god"

12.) folkin' around

(close guess of chords at beginning

Allow me to exaggerate a memory or two

 Where summer's lasted longer than

Longer than we do

 When nothing really mattered

 Except for me to be with you

 But in time we all forgot and

 We all grew

 Your melody sounds as sweet

 As the first time it was sung

 With a little bit more character for show

 And by the time your father's heard

 Of all the wrong you've done

 Then I'm putting out the lantern

 Find your own way back home

 If I've forgotten how to sing

Before I've sung this song

 I'll write it all across this wall

 Before my job is done

 And I'll even have the courtesy

 Of admitting I was wrong

 As the final words before I'm dead and gone

 You've never been so divine

 In accepting your defeat

 And I've never been more scared to be alone

 If love is not enough to put my enemies to sleep

 Then I'm putting out the lantern

 Find your own way back home

13.) she had the world

 She held the world upon a string

 But she didn't ever hold me

Spun the stars on her fingernails

 But it never made her happy

 Cause she couldn't ever have me

 She s[Bm#]aid she won the world at a carnival

 But she could never win me

 Cause she couldn't ever catch me

I, I know why

 Because when I look in her eyes

 I just see the sky

When I look in her eyes

 Well I, just see the sky

 I don’t love you I'm just passing the time

You could love me if I knew how to lie

But who could love me?

 I am out of my mind

 Throw an old line out to sea

 To see if I can catch a dream

 The sun was always in her eyes

 She didn't even see me

But that girl had so much love

 she'd wanna kiss you all the time

 Yeah, she'd wanna kiss you all the time

 She said she won the world at a carnival

 But I'm sure it didn’t ruin her

 Just made her more interesting

 I'm sure it didn’t ruin her

 Just made her more interesting

I, I know why

 Because when I look in her eyes

 I just see the sky

When I look in her eyes

 Well I, I just see the sky

 I don’t love you I'm just passing the time

You could love me if I knew how to lie

 But who could love me?

 I am out of my mind

 Throw an old line out to sea

 To see if I can catch a dream

14.)from a mountain in the middle of the cabins

Lying there

 With a halo in her hair she cried

 There are feathers everywhere

 But it's fine

 You do this all the time

Crying now

Through a rusted smile she knows

 This isn't how he paid the bills before

Drug farm entrepreneur

Go spin circles for me

Wound relentlessly

 Around the words we used to sling

Oh, such torturous things

Always chewing up the only ones

I ever mean

 If you're goin', then go

Go go go

 If you're goin', then go

Go go go

Watch love

 Get strangled by a kite's cold strings

 Fall comes early and summer leaves

 As a storm with the car keys

Spark your heels

 Up against the picket fence I built

 All your wishes they will sink like stones

Slowly down a lonely well

Go spin circles for me

Wound relentlessly

 Around the words we used to sling

Oh, such torturous things

Always chewing up the only ones

I ever mean

 If you're goin', then go

Go go go

 If you're goin', then go

Go go go

15.) mad as rabbits

Intro

 notes )

 Come save me from walking off a windowsill

 or I'll sleep in the rain.

 Don't you remember when I was a bird

 and you were a map?

 Now he drags down miles in America

briefcase in hand.

 The stove is creeping up his spine again,

 can't get enough trash.

 He took the days for pageant

 Became as mad as rabbits

 With bushels of bad habits

 Who could ask for anymore?

Yea who could have more.

(play intro)

 His arms were the branches of a Christmas tree

 preached the devil in the belfry.

 He checked in to learn his clothes had been

 thieved at the train station.

Rope hung his other branch

 and at the end was a dog called bambi

 Who was chewing on his parliaments

 when he tried to save the calendar business.

 he tried to save the calendar business.

 He took the days for pageant

 Became as mad as rabbits

 With bushels of bad habits

 Who could ask for anymore?

Yea who could have more.

(play intro)

 The poor son of a humble chimney sweep

fell to a cheap crowd

 So stay asleep and put on that cursive type

 you know we live in a toy.

 Paul Cates bought himself a trumpet from the salvation army

 But there ain't no sunshine in his song

 We must reinvent love.

reinvent love.

reinvent love.

 He took the days for pageant

 Became as mad as rabbits

 With bushels of bad habits

 Who could ask for anymore?

Yea who could have more.

 We must reinvent love.

reinvent love.

reinvent love.