Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

x2

NOTE: When playing Am in the intro, start off with the B string open and

then hammer on the 1st fret for the same sound that Ron has.

 If Carolyn called me up today I'd hang up the phone and walk away

 It's not that I don't care anymore but time changes locks on a lot of

doors

 And I know what you're thinking and it's true

 Sometimes there is nothing you can do

 But there's a time that I recall a purple street in Lisbon

 She was speaking dreams to me and I thought I was listening

 But I was fifteen yards away before I felt the distance

 She cried in Augusta street and stared into the windows

 And I know what she's thinking and it's true

 Sometimes there is nothing she can do

 Carolyn is tamed...

All those years and all those tears

Cuddling her insecure

And shaking like a child and feeling helpless

But maybe I share the blame

 Peter has a fan club he's a whiskey hating Christian

 And he's in love with everyone as long as they keep listening

 And there's a hole in my old faith where he belongs

 But, the whole of me has never been that strong

 Peter is half-born...

With one foot in and one foot out

A princess on a barstool

Anarcho- Commun- Liberat- ingratiating stranger to me now

Bridge

 Close friends and passerby love affairs and suicides

 Sex and drugs and crash n' burn decisions politics and prostitute

religions

 Fucking at the movies or fighting in the street

 Christopher's a scapegoat cause he lives like a poem

 And they want explanations but I just want to know him

 Not for what he claims to be or what they say he isn't

 Just because he's got the balls to make his own decisions

 And sometimes the pain he's feeling is so real

 Sometimes that is all I need to feel

 Christopher is wild...

With fire-escape guitar afflictions

Different lives but shared addictions

Late night taxi, Frank Black happy birthdays

And blood-pact butchers knives

 Amsterdam, the sex museums and the New York City subway

 Vancouver in November, and Montreal on Monday

 We'll get a fix in Union Square we'll drop at C.B.G.B.'s

 And if we can't find salvation there, we'll stay home and watch the t.v.

 And I'll be your disciple if you'll be mine

 And we'll make love in the moaning summertime

 Cause you are beautiful...

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