The picture is far too big to look at kid. Your eyes won't open wide enough
and you are constantly surrounded by that swirling stream of what is and what was.
Well, we've all made our predictions but the truth still isn't out.
RE SOLSo if you want to see the future, go stare into a cloud.
SOLAnd keep trying to find your way out of that maze of memories.
It all sort of looks familiar, but then you get up close and it's different. clearly.
DO SOLEach time you turn a corner, you are right back to where you were
and your only hope is that forgetting might make a door appear.
SOLIs it your fear of being buried that makes you so afraid to speak?
An avalanche of opinions like the one that feel that I am now underneath
DO SOLIt was my voice that moved the first rock and I would do it all again.
RE SOLSo, I mean, it's cool if you keep quiet, but I like singing.
So I'll be holding my note and stomping and strumming and feeling so very
SOLlucky.
REThere is nothing I know except that this lifetime is just one moment
and wishing will just leave me empty.
So you can try and live in darkness but you will never shake the light. It will greet
you every morning
and make you more aware with its absence at night,
DO SOLwhen you are wrapped up in your blanket baby, that comfortable cocoon.
But I have seen the day of your awakening boy and it's coming soon.
SOLSo go ahead and loose yourself in liquor and you can praise the clouded mind
but it isn't what you are thinking it's the course of history, your position in line.
DO SOLYou are just a piece of the puzzle so I think you had better find your place.
RE SOLAnd don't go blaming your knowledge on some fruit you ate.
Because there has been a great deal of discussion, yes, about the properties of man.
Animal or angel? You were carved from bone, but your heart it's just sand.
DO SOLAnd the wind is going to scatter it and cover everything with love.
RE SOLSo if it makes you happy, keep kneeling Mama, but I am standing up.
Because this veil, it has been lifted yes. My eyes are wet with clarity.
I have been a witness of such wonders. Oh, I have searched for them all across this country
but I think I'll be returning now to the town where I was born.
RE SOLAnd I understand you must keep moving friend, but I am heading home.
REI'm gonna follow the road and let the scenery sweeping by easily enter my
body.
REI'll send you all this message in code, under ground, over mountains,
SOL SOL SOLthrough forests, deserts and cities.
All across the electric wire, it's a baited line. The hook is in deep boys,
DOthere is no more time. So you can struggle in the water and be too stubborn to die,
C C D D D-cut off
or you could just let go and be lifted to the sky.
Method Acting:
MIm SI7
There's no beginning to the story, a bookshelf sinks into the sand
And a language learned and forgot, in turn, is studied once again
MIm SI7It's a shocking bit of footage viewed from a shitty TV screen
DO SOL FAm7You can squint out into snowy static to make out the meaning
And keep on stretching the antenna hoping that it will come clear
DO SOL FAm7We need some reception, a higher message, just tell us what to fear
LAm RE SOL RE DO
'Cause I don't know what tomorrow brings
LAm RE SOL RE DOIt's alive with such possibilities
All I know is I feel better when I sing
REBurdens are lifted from me
MIm SI7 DO SOLThat's my voice rising
MIm SI7 DO SOL MIm SI7 DO SOL
So, Michael, please keep the tape rolling, boys keep strumming those guitars
DO SOL FAm7We need a record of our failures, yes, we must document our love
MIm SI7I've sat too long in my silence, I've grown too old in my pain
To shed this skin, be born again, it starts with an ending
So thank you, friends, for the time we shared
An D G D C
My love stays with you like sunlight and air
An D G D C
And though I truly wish I could keep hanging around here
My joy is covering me
MIm SI7 DO SOLSoon, I will disappear
MIm SI7 DO SOL
DO
It's not a movie
No private screening
LAmThis method acting
REWell, I call that living
It's like a fountain
MImA door has opened
LAmWe have a problem
With no solution
DO SI7But to love and to be loved
LAm RE SOL RE DO
So I've made peace with the falling leaves
LAm RE SOL RE DOI see their same fate in my own body
But I won't be frightened when I'm awoken from this dream
REAnd returned to that which
MIm SI7 DO SOLGave birth to me
MIm SI7 DO SOL
Gave birth to me
Gave birth to me
Gave birth to me
And the story goes
And the story goes
And it goes on and on and on and on
It's going on and on and on and on
Make War:
Our love is dead but without limits
LAlike the surface of the moon
MI SI7and the land between you and the mountains
It is not these hiding places that have kept us innocent
MI SI7 MIbut the way you taught me to just let it all go by
LA
Please return, return
MIto the person that you were
And I will do the same
LA'cause it's too hard to belong
MIto somenone who is gone
my compass spins
LA MIthe wilderness remains
False Advertising:
RE RE2 SOL FA#
On a string I was held. The way that I move, can you tell?
MIm LA7 RE RE RE2My actions are orchestrated from above. So I swing and I sway.
Wave my hand. Kick my leg. And it is always right with the music.
"Until all that swinging starts to make you sick"
RE RE2 SOL FA# MIm LA REFor a song I was bought. Now I lie when I talk with a careful eye on the cue card.
Onto a stage, I was pushed with my sorrow well rehearsed.
MIm LA7 RESo give me all your pity and your money. Now.
"We used to think that sound was something pure"
MIm LA FA# SIm SOL LA
If I could act like this was my real life and not some cage where I've been
placed, then, I could tell you the truth like I used to and not be afraid of
SIm SOL LA REsounding fake.Now all that anyone is listening for are the mistakes.
RE RE2 SOL FA# MIm LA7
In a house, by myself, I hear the ice start to melt and watch rooftops weep
REfor the sunlight.
And I know what must change. Fuck my face. Fuck my name.
MIm LA7 RE RE RE2They are brief and false advertisements for a soul I don't have.
SOL FA# MIm LA7 RESomething true I have lacked and spent my whole life trying to make up for.
But I found in a song and in the people I love. They will lift me up out of
REdarkness.
RE RE2 SOL FA#Now my door stands open. I am inviting everyone in.
We will laugh we're gonna drink until the morning comes. That is what we are going to do.
come on come on
You Will You Will? You? Will?:
MI LA MI
You say that I treat you like a book on a shelf. I don't take you out that
SI7 LA LA LA2 (002100) MI MIsus MIoften because I know that I completed you and that is why you are here.
That is the reason why you stay here. How awful you must feel.
MI LAYou said you would be my dream. I could have you every night and if, by
MI SI7 LAmorning, I had forgotten you, well, no big deal, it would be all right
because you are the reoccurring kind. You are the reoccurring kind. You
SI7 LA MI MInever leave my mind. are you the love of my lifetime? Because there have
LAbeen times I have had my doubts.
We were just kids when I first kissed you in the attic of my parents house,
LA LA2 MI LA MI SI7and I wish we were there now. It took so long to figure out what this book
LA MI MIsus MIhas been about.
Now I write when I'm away letters that you never read. You said go to
explore those other women,
the geography of their bodies but there is just one map you'll need. You are
LAa boomerang.
MI MIsus MI SI7 LA MIYou see. You will return to me.
MI MIsus MI LA SI7 MI
You will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will
You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.
'Cause if you don't, then this book's all lies
FA# MIIf you don't, then my plans would all be ruined
FA# SI7If you don't, I'll start drinking like the way I drank before
Well then I just wont have a future anymore
Lover I Dont Have to Love:
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Am A? (002110)
I picked you out
FA MIOf a crowd to talk to you
Am A?
Said I liked your shoes
FA MIYou said thanks can I follow you?
Am A?
So it's up the stairs
And out of view No prying eyes
Am A?
I poured some wine
FA MII asked your name you asked the time
Am A?
Now it's two o'clock,
FA MIthe club is closed we're up the block
Am A?
Your hands on me
Pressing hard against your jeans
Am A?
Your tongue in my mouth
FA MITrying to keep the words from coming out
Am A?
You didn't care to know
FA MIWho else may have been you before
Am A?
I want a lover I don't have to love
I want a girl who's to sad to give a fuck
Am A?
Where's the kid with the chemicals?
FA MII thought he said to meet me here but I'm not sure
Am A?
I got the money if you got the time
FA MIYou said it feels good I said I'll give it a try
Then my mind went dark
We both forgot where your car was parked
Let's just take the train
I'll meet up with the band in the morning
Am A? F E
Bad actors with bad habits
Am A?
Some sad singers
They just play tragic
Am A?
And the phone's ringing
FA MIAnd the van's leaving
Am A?
Let's just keep touching
FA FA MILet's just keep keep singing
Am A?
I want a lover I don't have to love
I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk
Am A?
Where's the kid with the chemicals
FA MII got a hunger and I can't seem to get full
Am A>
I need some meaning I can memorize
FA FA MI MIThe kind I have always seems to slip my mind
But you but you
C C?(020010) Am G F
You write such pretty words
C C?(020010) Am G F
But life's no story book
C C?(020010) Am G F
Love is an excuse to get hurt
MIAnd to hurt
"Do you like to hurt?"
"I do! I do!"
Am A? F E
"Then hurt me."
Bowl of Oranges:
DO
The rain it started tappin'
SOLOn the window near my bed
There was a loophole in my dreamin'
SOLSo I got out of it
LAm FAAnd to my surprise my eyes were wide and already open
Just my nightstand and my dresser
SOLWhere those nightmares had just been
DOSo I dressed myself and left then
Out into the gray streets
FABut everything seemed different
SOLAnd completely new to me
The sky the trees, houses, buildings, even my own body
REAnd each person I encountered
SOLI couldn't wait to meet
And I came upon a doctor
SOLWho appeared in quite poor health
FA SOLI said there's nothing I can do for you that you can't do for yourself
He said oh yes you can, just hold my hand, so I sat with him awhile
SOLThen I asked him how he felt
F F? (002010) Am
He said I think I'm cured
F F? Am
No, in fact, I'm sure of it
F F? Am
Thank you, stranger
SOLFor your therapeutic smile
DO
So that's how I learned the lesson
SOLThat everyone's alone
And your eyes must do some raining
SOLIf you're ever gonna grow
LAmAnd when crying don't help
You can't compose yourself
FAIt's best to compose a poem
REAn honest verse of longing
Or a simple song of hope
DOThat's why I'm singing baby don't worry
SOL'Cause now I got your back
And every time you feel like crying
SOLI'm gonna try and make you laugh
LAmAnd if I can't
If it just hurts too bad
FAThen we'll wait for it to pass
RE SOLAnd I will keep you company for those days so long and black
And we'll keep working on the problem
SOLWe know we'll never solve
FAOur love's un-even remainders
Our lives are fractions of a whole
LAmBut if the world could remain within a frame
FALike a painting on a wall
Then I think we'd see the beauty then
SOLWe'd stand staring in awe
F F? Am
At our still lives posed
F F? Am
Like a bowl of oranges
F F? Am
Like a story told
SOLBy the fault-lines in the soil
Don't Know When But Days Gonna Come
tabbed by blake raynor
ideal_ego@hotmail.com
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SOL LAm
The future has got me worried, such awful thoughts.
REMy head is a carousèl of pictures.
The spinning never stops.
SOL LAm FAI just want someone to walk in front and I'll follow the
SOLleader
Continue until chorus
LAm RE SOL SOL/FA# MIm7I know I should be brave but I'm just too afraid
REOf all this change
SOL SIm
So when i'm lost in a crowd, i hope that you'll pick me out.
Oh, How I long to be found.
REThe grass grew high. I lay down.
SOL SImNow, I wait for a hand to lift me up, help me stand.
I have been laying so low. don't want to lay here no more
Waste of Paint"
DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA
DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA
I have a friend, he is made mostly of paint.
He wakes up, drives to work, and then straight back home again.
DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA DO FA FAmaj (003200) FAHe once cut one of my nightmares out of paper.
DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA DO FA FAmaj (003200) FAI thought it was beautiful, I put it on a record cover.
And I tried to tell him he had a sense of color and composition so magnificent.
FA SOL FA SOL FA SOL FA SOLAnd he said "Thank you, please but your flattery is truly not becoming me.
FA SOL FA SOL FA SOL FAYour eyes are poor. You are blind. You see, no beauty could have come from
I am a waste of breath, of space, of time."
etc....
From A Balance Beam:
There is a man holding a megaphone, so he must have been the voice of God.
RE7 SOLThe bystanders claimed they saw angels flying up and down the block.
SOLm(300230)Well, they must have been attached to wires. I saw one laying in
the lawn with a broken arm,
LA RE LAso I called 911. So that is one less founded opinion. One more cause for a dispute.
RE7 SOLSo the street filled, like a basin, up with cameras and their crews
and they washed away the rumors leaving just the concrete truth. It was a spectacle.
LA RE LANo, I mean a miracle. So then I fell like that girl from a balance beam.
RE7 SOL SOLmA gymnasium of eyes were all holding on to me. I lifted one foot to cross the other
and I felt myself slipping. It was a small mistake. Sometimes that is all it takes.
SIm SOL LANow I'm staring at my wrist, hoping that the timing is right. When the
REplanes will align.
There will be no planets to align. Just the carcass of the sun
SOLmand those little painted marbles spinning endless through an endless black sky.
RE RE RE RE
RE LA
It was in a foreign hotel's bathtub I baptized myself in change.
RE7 SOLAnd one by one I drowned all of the people I had been.
I emerged to find the parallels were fewer. I was cleansed. I looked in the mirror
LA REand someone new was there. Still, I was as helpless as a chess piece
LA RE7when I was lifted up by someone's hand and delivered from the corner my
enemies had got me in.
SOLm SIm LABut in all of my salvation I still felt imprisoned inside that holding cell
LAthat is myself.
So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock
SOLand the guard will say to me, "Oh my patient prisoner you have waited for
SImthis day
and finally you are free! You are free! You are freezing."
SIm SOL LANow I'm staring at the sun, waiting for it to explode. Because a day is
REgonna come,
don't know when but it will come and then we will finally know the way out of here.
And I will throw away this wrinkled map and my chart of stars and compass, cracked.
And I'll climb out that tree all wet with sap to avoid the hungry beasts below.
I'll cut out my love's tongue and sing of a graveyard gray and a garden green and
then we won't have to worry no more. No we won't ever worry again abouthow this song
or story ends about how this song and story will end.
RE RE RE
Laura Laurent:
SOL LAm RE SOL
Laura are you still livin' there on your estate of sorrows?
SOL LAm RE SOLYou used to leave it occasionally but now you don't even bother
to ride the commuter train west to Chicago
SOL LAm RE SOLto stroll through the greenery in the park past the statues
SIm MIm DO RE
how her eyes seemed to follow you, like a hated addiction
SIm MIm DOtheir beauty carved out of absolutes you could never claim
or even envision
Laura you were the saddest song in the shape of a woman
SOL LAm RE SOLyeah I thought you were beautiful but I wept with your movements
SOL LAm RE SOLbut I hope that you're laughing now from that place on the carpet
where we shared a sleeping bag in your sister's apartment
SOL LAm RE SOLoh how she would worry so, you know I was just a stranger
SOL LAm SOLbut she asked me to care for you, yes she did
and I went and betrayed her
SIm MIm DO RE
But do you know we're in high demand, Laura, us, people who suffer?
because we don't take to arguing and we're quick to surrender.
Well I think I would call tonight if I still had your number
SOL LAm RE SOLyour thoughts have always laid close to mine, and we're both skipping supper.
SOL LAm RE SOLBut you should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living
'Cause it's the ones with the sorest throats, Laura,
RE SOLwho have done the most singing
LAlalalalalalLalalALalAlala
Lets Not Shit Ourselves (To love and too be loved)
DO MI LAm
The animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness. A baby cried hard in an
FA SOLapartment complex,
as I pass a car buried under the influence. The city is driving me out of my
FAmind.
DO MII have seen a child is caught in the sad trap of gravity.
He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree and lands in the grass and
MIweeps for his dignity.
LAm FA DO SOL DONext time he will not aim so high. Yeah, next time, neither will I.
The picture is far too big to look
..at kid. Your eyes won't open
..wide enough
and you are constantly surrounded
..by that swirling stream of what
..is and what was.
DOWell, we've all made our
..predictions but the truth still
SOL..isn't out.
RESo if you want to see the future,
..go stare into a cloud.
SOLAnd keep trying to find your way
..out of that maze of memories.
It all sort of looks familiar, but
..then you get up close and it's
..different. clearly.
DOEach time you turn a corner, you
SOL..are right back to where you were
and your only hope is that
SOL..forgetting might make a door
..appear.
SOLIs it your fear of being buried
..that makes you so afraid to
..speak?
An avalanche of opinions like the
..one that feel that I am now
..underneath
It was my voice that moved the
..first rock and I would do it all
SOL.. again.
So, I mean, it's cool if you keep
SOL..quiet, but I like singing.
RESo I'll be holding my note and
..stomping and strumming and
..feeling so very
SOLlucky.
REThere is nothing I know except
..that this lifetime is just one
..moment
SOLand wishing will just leave me
..empty.
So you can try and live in
..darkness but you will never
..shake the light. It will greet
you every morning
and make you more aware with its
..absence at night,
DOwhen you are wrapped up in your
..blanket baby, that comfortable
SOL..cocoon.
REBut I have seen the day of your
..awakening boy and it's coming
..soon.
So go ahead and loose yourself in
..liquor and you can praise the
..clouded mind
but it isn't what you are thinking
..it's the course of history, your
..position in line.
DOYou are just a piece of the puzzle
..so I think you had better find
SOL..your place.
REAnd don't go blaming your
..knowledge on some fruit you ate.
Because there has been a great
..deal of discussion, yes, about
..the properties of man.
Animal or angel? You were carved
..from bone, but your heart it's
..just sand.
DOAnd the wind is going to scatter
SOL..it and cover everything with
..love.
RESo if it makes you happy, keep
..kneeling Mama, but I am standing
SOL..up.
SOLBecause this veil, it has been
..lifted yes. My eyes are wet with
..clarity.
I have been a witness of such
..wonders. Oh, I have searched for
..them all across this country
DObut I think I'll be returning now
SOL..to the town where I was born.
And I understand you must keep
..moving friend, but I am heading
SOL..home.
I'm gonna follow the road and let
..the scenery sweeping by easily
..enter my
SOLbody.
I'll send you all this message in
..code, under ground, over
..mountains,
through forests, deserts and
..cities.
DO DOAll across the electric wire, it's
DO..a baited line. The hook is in
..deep boys,
DOthere is no more time. So you can
..struggle in the water and be too
..stubborn to die,
C C
.. D D D-cut off
or you could just let go and be
..lifted to the sky.
Method Acting:
MIm
There's no beginning to the story,
..a bookshelf sinks into the sand
DOAnd a language learned and forgot,
SOL FAm7 (200230)..in turn, is studied once again
It's a shocking bit of footage
SI7..viewed from a shitty TV screen
DOYou can squint out into snowy
..static to make out the meaning
MImAnd keep on stretching the antenna
SI7..hoping that it will come clear
We need some reception, a higher
SOL FAm7..message, just tell us what to
..fear
'Cause I don't know what tomorrow
DO..brings
LAm RE SOL REIt's alive with such possibilities
LAm RE SOL RE
All I know is I feel better when I
DO.. sing
Burdens are lifted from me
MIm SI7 DO SOLThat's my voice rising
MIm SI7 DO SOL MIm SI7 DO SOL
MIm
So, Michael, please keep the tape
..rolling, boys keep strumming
..those guitars
We need a record of our failures,
SOL FAm7..yes, we must document our love
MImI've sat too long in my silence,
..I've grown too old in my pain
DOTo shed this skin, be born again,
SOL FAm7..it starts with an ending
LAm RE
So thank you, friends, for the
.. time we shared
An D G
..D C
My love stays with you like
..sunlight and air
An D
.. G D C
And though I truly wish I could
..keep hanging around here
REMy joy is covering me
Soon, I will disappear
DO
It's not a movie
MImNo private screening
This method acting
REWell, I call that living
DOIt's like a fountain
A door has opened
LAmWe have a problem
REWith no solution
But to love and to be loved
So I've made peace with the
SOL RE DO.. falling leaves
LAm RE SOLI see their same fate in my own
..body
LAm REBut I won't be frightened when I'm
SOL RE DO.. awoken from this dream
And returned to that which
MIm SI7 DO SOLGave birth to me
MIm SI7 DO SOL
Gave birth to me
Gave birth to me
Gave birth to me
And the story goes
And the story goes
And it goes on and on and on and
..on
It's going on and on and on and on
Make War:
MI
Our love is dead but without
..limits
LAlike the surface of the moon
MIand the land between you and the
..mountains
MIIt is not these hiding places that
LA..have kept us innocent
but the way you taught me to just
SI7 MI..let it all go by
LA
Please return, return
MIto the person that you were
And I will do the same
LA'cause it's too hard to belong
MIto somenone who is gone
my compass spins
LA MIthe wilderness remains
False Advertising:
RE RE2
On a string I was held. The way
SOL FA#..that I move, can you tell?
My actions are orchestrated from
RE RE RE2..above. So I swing and I sway.
SOL FA#Wave my hand. Kick my leg. And it
..is always right with the music.
"Until all that swinging starts to
..make you sick"
RE RE2For a song I was bought. Now I lie
SOL FA# MIm LA.. when I talk with a careful eye
..on the cue card.
RE RE2Onto a stage, I was pushed with my
SOL FA#.. sorrow well rehearsed.
So give me all your pity and your
RE..money. Now.
"We used to think that sound was
..something pure"
MIm LA FA#
If I could act like this was my
SIm SOL LA..real life and not some cage
..where I've been
SIm MIm LA FA#placed, then, I could tell you the
..truth like I used to and not be
LA..afraid of
SIm SOLsounding fake.Now all that anyone
..is listening for are the
..mistakes.
RE RE2 SOL
In a house, by myself, I hear the
..ice start to melt and watch
MIm LA7..rooftops weep
REfor the sunlight.
And I know what must change. Fuck
SOL FA#..my face. Fuck my name.
MIm LA7They are brief and false
..advertisements for a soul I
RE2..don't have.
SOL FA#Something true I have lacked and
..spent my whole life trying to
RE..make up for.
RE RE2But I found in a song and in the
..people I love. They will lift me
LA7..up out of
REdarkness.
Now my door stands open. I am
SOL FA#..inviting everyone in.
MIm LA7We will laugh we're gonna drink
..until the morning comes. That is
RE..what we are going to do.
come on come on
You Will You Will? You? Will?:
MI MIsus MI
MI
You say that I treat you like a
..book on a shelf. I don't take
..you out that
often because I know that I
LA LA LA2..completed you and that is why
(002100) MI MIsus MI.. you are here.
That is the reason why you stay
MIsus MI SI7 LA MI MIsus MI..here. How awful you must feel.
MIYou said you would be my dream. I
..could have you every night and
..if, by
morning, I had forgotten you,
SI7 LA..well, no big deal, it would be
..all right
LA LA2 MIbecause you are the reoccurring
MIsus MI LA LA2..kind. You are the reoccurring
.. kind. You
SI7 LA MI MInever leave my mind. are you the
..love of my lifetime? Because
..there have
been times I have had my doubts.
MIWe were just kids when I first
SI7 LA..kissed you in the attic of my
..parents house,
LA LA2 MIand I wish we were there now. It
..took so long to figure out what
SI7..this book
LA MI MIsus MIhas been about.
Now I write when I'm away letters
MI..that you never read. You said go
..to
explore those other women,
the geography of their bodies but
LA LA2..there is just one map you'll
MI MIsus MI.. need. You are
a boomerang.
MI MIsus MI SI7 LA MIYou see. You will return to me.
MI MIsus MI
You will. You? Will. You? Will.
LA SI7..You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.
..You? Will
MI MIsus MIYou? Will. You? Will. You? Will.
LA SI7..You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.
..You? Will.
'Cause if you don't, then this
FA# MI.. book's all lies
FA#If you don't, then my plans would
..all be ruined
FA#If you don't, I'll start drinking
SI7..like the way I drank before
Well then I just wont have a
LA MI.. future anymore
Lover I Dont Have to Love:
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Am A? (002110)
I picked you out
FA MIOf a crowd to talk to you
Am A?
Said I liked your shoes
FA MIYou said thanks can I follow you?
Am A?
So it's up the stairs
And out of view No prying eyes
Am A?
I poured some wine
FA MII asked your name you asked the
..time
Am A?
Now it's two o'clock,
the club is closed we're up the
..block
Am A?
Your hands on me
FA MIPressing hard against your jeans
Am A?
Your tongue in my mouth
Trying to keep the words from
..coming out
Am A?
You didn't care to know
FA MIWho else may have been you before
Am A?
I want a lover I don't have to
..love
FA MII want a girl who's to sad to give
..a fuck
Am A?
Where's the kid with the
..chemicals?
FA MII thought he said to meet me here
..but I'm not sure
Am A?
I got the money if you got the
..time
FAYou said it feels good I said I'll
..give it a try
Then my mind went dark
We both forgot where your car was
..parked
Let's just take the train
I'll meet up with the band in the
..morning
Am A? F E
Bad actors with bad habits
Am A?
Some sad singers
They just play tragic
Am A?
And the phone's ringing
FA MIAnd the van's leaving
Am A?
Let's just keep touching
FA FA MILet's just keep keep singing
Am A?
I want a lover I don't have to
..love
FA MII want a boy who's so drunk he
..doesn't talk
Am A?
Where's the kid with the chemicals
I got a hunger and I can't seem to
..get full
Am A>
I need some meaning I can memorize
FA FAThe kind I have always seems to
MI MI..slip my mind
But you but you
C C?(020010) Am G F
You write such pretty words
C C?(020010) Am G F
But life's no story book
C C?(020010) Am G F
Love is an excuse to get hurt
And to hurt
MI"Do you like to hurt?"
"I do! I do!"
Am A? F E
"Then hurt me."
Bowl of Oranges:
DO
The rain it started tappin'
On the window near my bed
FAThere was a loophole in my
..dreamin'
SOLSo I got out of it
LAmAnd to my surprise my eyes were
..wide and already open
REJust my nightstand and my dresser
SOLWhere those nightmares had just
..been
DOSo I dressed myself and left then
Out into the gray streets
FABut everything seemed different
SOLAnd completely new to me
The sky the trees, houses,
FA..buildings, even my own body
REAnd each person I encountered
I couldn't wait to meet
DOAnd I came upon a doctor
SOLWho appeared in quite poor health
I said there's nothing I can do
SOL..for you that you can't do for
..yourself
LAm FAHe said oh yes you can, just hold
RE..my hand, so I sat with him
..awhile
SOLThen I asked him how he felt
F F? (002010) Am
He said I think I'm cured
F F? Am
No, in fact, I'm sure of it
F F? Am
Thank you, stranger
SOLFor your therapeutic smile
DO
So that's how I learned the lesson
That everyone's alone
FAAnd your eyes must do some raining
SOLIf you're ever gonna grow
And when crying don't help
You can't compose yourself
FAIt's best to compose a poem
An honest verse of longing
SOLOr a simple song of hope
DOThat's why I'm singing baby don't
..worry
SOL'Cause now I got your back
And every time you feel like
..crying
I'm gonna try and make you laugh
LAmAnd if I can't
If it just hurts too bad
Then we'll wait for it to pass
RE SOLAnd I will keep you company for
..those days so long and black
DOAnd we'll keep working on the
..problem
SOLWe know we'll never solve
FAOur love's un-even remainders
Our lives are fractions of a whole
LAmBut if the world could remain
..within a frame
FALike a painting on a wall
REThen I think we'd see the beauty
..then
SOLWe'd stand staring in awe
F F? Am
At our still lives posed
F F? Am
Like a bowl of oranges
F F? Am
Like a story told
SOLBy the fault-lines in the soil
Don't Know When But Days Gonna
..Come
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ideal_ego@hotmail.com
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SOL
The future has got me worried,
LAm..such awful thoughts.
My head is a carousèl of pictures.
SOL SOL FA# SOLThe spinning never stops.
SOLI just want someone to walk in
..front and I'll follow the
SOLleader
Continue until chorus
I know I should be brave but I'm
SOL SOL/FA# MIm7..just too afraid
REOf all this change
SOL
So when i'm lost in a crowd, i
..hope that you'll pick me out.
LAmOh, How I long to be found.
REThe grass grew high. I lay down.
Now, I wait for a hand to lift me
..up, help me stand.
I have been laying so low. don't
..want to lay here no more
Waste of Paint"
DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA
I have a friend, he is made mostly
DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA..of paint.
He wakes up, drives to work, and
DO FA FAmaj..then straight back home again.
(003200) FA
He once cut one of my nightmares
DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA..out of paper.
DO FA FAmaj (003200) FAI thought it was beautiful, I put
..it on a record cover.
FASOL
And I tried to tell him he had a
..sense of color and composition
..so magnificent.
And he said "Thank you, please but
FA SOL FA SOL..your flattery is truly not
FA SOL..becoming me.
Your eyes are poor. You are blind.
SOL FA SOL.. You see, no beauty could have
FA..come from
I am a waste of breath, of space,
(003200) FA.. of time."
etc....
From A Balance Beam:
RE
There is a man holding a
LA..megaphone, so he must have been
..the voice of God.
RE7The bystanders claimed they saw
..angels flying up and down the
..block.
Well, they must have been attached
..to wires. I saw one laying in
the lawn with a broken arm,
LAso I called 911. So that is one
RE LA..less founded opinion. One more
..cause for a dispute.
RE7So the street filled, like a
..basin, up with cameras and their
..crews
and they washed away the rumors
SIm..leaving just the concrete truth.
LA..It was a spectacle.
No, I mean a miracle. So then I
RE LA..fell like that girl from a
..balance beam.
RE7A gymnasium of eyes were all
SOL..holding on to me. I lifted one
..foot to cross the other
SImand I felt myself slipping. It was
LA..a small mistake. Sometimes that
..is all it takes.
SIm SOLNow I'm staring at my wrist,
LA..hoping that the timing is right.
..When the
REplanes will align.
There will be no planets to align.
SOLm..Just the carcass of the sun
SOLmand those little painted marbles
..spinning endless through an
..endless black sky.
RE
It was in a foreign hotel's
..bathtub I baptized myself in
..change.
And one by one I drowned all of
SOL..the people I had been.
SOLmI emerged to find the parallels
..were fewer. I was cleansed. I
LA..looked in the mirror
LAand someone new was there. Still,
..I was as helpless as a chess
..piece
when I was lifted up by someone's
RE7..hand and delivered from the
..corner my
SOLenemies had got me in.
SOLmBut in all of my salvation I still
..felt imprisoned inside that
..holding cell
that is myself.
RESo I wait for the day when I'll
LA RE7..hear the key as it turns in the
..lock
SOLand the guard will say to me, "Oh
..my patient prisoner you have
..waited for
SImthis day
LAand finally you are free! You are
..free! You are freezing."
SIm SOLNow I'm staring at the sun,
LA..waiting for it to explode.
..Because a day is
REgonna come,
don't know when but it will come
..and then we will finally know
SOLm..the way out of here.
SOLm
And I will throw away this
..wrinkled map and my chart of
..stars and compass, cracked.
And I'll climb out that tree all
..wet with sap to avoid the hungry
..beasts below.
I'll cut out my love's tongue and
..sing of a graveyard gray and a
..garden green and
then we won't have to worry no
..more. No we won't ever worry
..again abouthow this song
or story ends about how this song
..and story will end.
RE RE RE
Laura Laurent:
Laura are you still livin' there
SOL..on your estate of sorrows?
SOL LAmYou used to leave it occasionally
.. but now you don't even bother
SOL LAm REto ride the commuter train west to
SOL..Chicago
to stroll through the greenery in
SOL..the park past the statues
SIm MIm DO
how her eyes seemed to follow you,
RE..like a hated addiction
their beauty carved out of
MIm..absolutes you could never claim
DO
or even envision
Laura you were the saddest song in
RE SOL.. the shape of a woman
SOL LAm REyeah I thought you were beautiful
..but I wept with your movements
SOL LAmbut I hope that you're laughing
RE SOL..now from that place on the
..carpet
SOL LAm REwhere we shared a sleeping bag in
..your sister's apartment
SOL LAm REoh how she would worry so, you
SOL..know I was just a stranger
but she asked me to care for you,
SOL..yes she did
REand I went and betrayed her
SIm MIm
But do you know we're in high
DO..demand, Laura, us, people who
..suffer?
SIm MImbecause we don't take to arguing
DO RE..and we're quick to surrender.
SOL LAm RE
Well I think I would call tonight
..if I still had your number
SOLyour thoughts have always laid
LAm RE..close to mine, and we're both
..skipping supper.
SOLBut you should never be
LAm RE..embarrassed by your trouble with
..living
SOL LAm'Cause it's the ones with the
..sorest throats, Laura,
REwho have done the most singing
SOL
LAlalalalalalLalalALalAlala
Lets Not Shit Ourselves (To love
..and too be loved)
DO MI
The animals laugh from the dark of
LAm..the wilderness. A baby cried
..hard in an
FA SOLapartment complex,
as I pass a car buried under the
LAm..influence. The city is driving
..me out of my
FAmind.
DOI have seen a child is caught in
..the sad trap of gravity.
LAm FAHe falls from the lowest branch of
SOL DO..the apple tree and lands in the
..grass and
MIweeps for his dignity.
Next time he will not aim so high.
DO SOL DO..Yeah, next time, neither will I.
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