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SOL
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.
DO SOL
Well, we've all made our predictions but the truth still isn't out.
RE SOL
So if you want to see the future, go stare into a cloud.
SOL
And 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 SOL
Each time you turn a corner, you are right back to where you were
RE SOL
and your only hope is that forgetting might make a door appear.
SOL
Is 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 SOL
It was my voice that moved the first rock and I would do it all again.
RE SOL
So, I mean, it's cool if you keep quiet, but I like singing.
RE
So I'll be holding my note and stomping and strumming and feeling so very
SOL
lucky.
RE
There is nothing I know except that this lifetime is just one moment
SOL
and wishing will just leave me empty.
SOL
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 SOL
when you are wrapped up in your blanket baby, that comfortable cocoon.
RE SOL
But I have seen the day of your awakening boy and it's coming soon.
SOL
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.
DO SOL
You are just a piece of the puzzle so I think you had better find your place.
RE SOL
And 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 SOL
And the wind is going to scatter it and cover everything with love.
RE SOL
So if it makes you happy, keep kneeling Mama, but I am standing up.
SOL
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
DO SOL
but I think I'll be returning now to the town where I was born.
RE SOL
And I understand you must keep moving friend, but I am heading home.
RE
I'm gonna follow the road and let the scenery sweeping by easily enter my
SOL
body.
RE
I'll send you all this message in code, under ground, over mountains,
SOL SOL SOL
through forests, deserts and cities.
DO DO DO
All across the electric wire, it's a baited line. The hook is in deep boys,
DO
there 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
DO SOL FAm7 (200230)
And a language learned and forgot, in turn, is studied once again
MIm SI7
It's a shocking bit of footage viewed from a shitty TV screen
DO SOL FAm7
You can squint out into snowy static to make out the meaning
MIm SI7
And keep on stretching the antenna hoping that it will come clear
DO SOL FAm7
We 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 DO
It's alive with such possibilities
LAm RE SOL RE DO
All I know is I feel better when I sing
RE
Burdens are lifted from me
MIm SI7 DO SOL
That's my voice rising
MIm SI7 DO SOL MIm SI7 DO SOL
MIm SI7
So, Michael, please keep the tape rolling, boys keep strumming those guitars
DO SOL FAm7
We need a record of our failures, yes, we must document our love
MIm SI7
I've sat too long in my silence, I've grown too old in my pain
DO SOL FAm7
To shed this skin, be born again, it starts with an ending
LAm RE SOL RE DO
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
RE
My joy is covering me
MIm SI7 DO SOL
Soon, I will disappear
MIm SI7 DO SOL
DO
It's not a movie
MIm
No private screening
LAm
This method acting
RE
Well, I call that living
DO
It's like a fountain
MIm
A door has opened
LAm
We have a problem
RE
With no solution
DO SI7
But to love and to be loved
LAm RE SOL RE DO
So I've made peace with the falling leaves
LAm RE SOL RE DO
I see their same fate in my own body
LAm RE SOL RE DO
But I won't be frightened when I'm awoken from this dream
RE
And returned to that which
MIm SI7 DO SOL
Gave 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
LA
like the surface of the moon
MI SI7
and the land between you and the mountains
MI LA
It is not these hiding places that have kept us innocent
MI SI7 MI
but the way you taught me to just let it all go by
LA
Please return, return
MI
to the person that you were
DO#m SI
And I will do the same
LA
'cause it's too hard to belong
MI
to somenone who is gone
FA#m
my compass spins
LA MI
the 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 RE2
My actions are orchestrated from above. So I swing and I sway.
SOL FA# MIm LA7 RE
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 RE
For a song I was bought. Now I lie when I talk with a careful eye on the cue card.
RE RE2 SOL FA#
Onto a stage, I was pushed with my sorrow well rehearsed.
MIm LA7 RE
So 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
SIm MIm LA FA# SIm SOL LA
placed, then, I could tell you the truth like I used to and not be afraid of
SIm SOL LA RE
sounding 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
RE
for the sunlight.
RE RE2 SOL FA#
And I know what must change. Fuck my face. Fuck my name.
MIm LA7 RE RE RE2
They are brief and false advertisements for a soul I don't have.
SOL FA# MIm LA7 RE
Something true I have lacked and spent my whole life trying to make up for.
RE RE2 SOL FA# MIm LA7
But I found in a song and in the people I love. They will lift me up out of
RE
darkness.
RE RE2 SOL FA#
Now my door stands open. I am inviting everyone in.
MIm LA7 RE RE
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 MIsus MI
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 MI
often because I know that I completed you and that is why you are here.
LA LA2 MI MIsus MI SI7 LA MI MIsus MI
That is the reason why you stay here. How awful you must feel.
MI LA
You said you would be my dream. I could have you every night and if, by
MI SI7 LA
morning, I had forgotten you, well, no big deal, it would be all right
LA LA2 MI MIsus MI LA LA2 MI MIsus MI
because you are the reoccurring kind. You are the reoccurring kind. You
SI7 LA MI MI
never leave my mind. are you the love of my lifetime? Because there have
LA
been times I have had my doubts.
MI SI7 LA
We were just kids when I first kissed you in the attic of my parents house,
LA LA2 MI LA MI SI7
and I wish we were there now. It took so long to figure out what this book
LA MI MIsus MI
has been about.
MI LA MI
Now I write when I'm away letters that you never read. You said go to
explore those other women,
SI7 LA LA LA2 MI MIsus MI
the geography of their bodies but there is just one map you'll need. You are
LA
a boomerang.
MI MIsus MI SI7 LA MI
You 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
MI MIsus MI LA SI7 MI
You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.
FA# MI
'Cause if you don't, then this book's all lies
FA# MI
If you don't, then my plans would all be ruined
FA# SI7
If you don't, I'll start drinking like the way I drank before
FA# LA MI
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 MI
Of a crowd to talk to you
Am A?
Said I liked your shoes
FA MI
You said thanks can I follow you?
Am A?
So it's up the stairs
FA MI
And out of view No prying eyes
Am A?
I poured some wine
FA MI
I asked your name you asked the time
Am A?
Now it's two o'clock,
FA MI
the club is closed we're up the block
Am A?
Your hands on me
FA MI
Pressing hard against your jeans
Am A?
Your tongue in my mouth
FA MI
Trying to keep the words from coming out
Am A?
You didn't care to know
FA MI
Who else may have been you before
Am A?
I want a lover I don't have to love
FA MI
I want a girl who's to sad to give a fuck
Am A?
Where's the kid with the chemicals?
FA MI
I thought he said to meet me here but I'm not sure
Am A?
I got the money if you got the time
FA MI
You 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
FA MI
They just play tragic
Am A?
And the phone's ringing
FA MI
And the van's leaving
Am A?
Let's just keep touching
FA FA MI
Let's just keep keep singing
Am A?
I want a lover I don't have to love
FA MI
I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk
Am A?
Where's the kid with the chemicals
FA MI
I got a hunger and I can't seem to get full
Am A>
I need some meaning I can memorize
FA FA MI MI
The 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
MI
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'
SOL
On the window near my bed
FA
There was a loophole in my dreamin'
SOL
So I got out of it
LAm FA
And to my surprise my eyes were wide and already open
RE
Just my nightstand and my dresser
SOL
Where those nightmares had just been
DO
So I dressed myself and left then
SOL
Out into the gray streets
FA
But everything seemed different
SOL
And completely new to me
LAm FA
The sky the trees, houses, buildings, even my own body
RE
And each person I encountered
SOL
I couldn't wait to meet
DO
And I came upon a doctor
SOL
Who appeared in quite poor health
FA SOL
I said there's nothing I can do for you that you can't do for yourself
LAm FA RE
He said oh yes you can, just hold my hand, so I sat with him awhile
SOL
Then 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
SOL
For your therapeutic smile
DO
So that's how I learned the lesson
SOL
That everyone's alone
FA
And your eyes must do some raining
SOL
If you're ever gonna grow
LAm
And when crying don't help
You can't compose yourself
FA
It's best to compose a poem
RE
An honest verse of longing
SOL
Or a simple song of hope
DO
That's why I'm singing baby don't worry
SOL
'Cause now I got your back
FA
And every time you feel like crying
SOL
I'm gonna try and make you laugh
LAm
And if I can't
If it just hurts too bad
FA
Then we'll wait for it to pass
RE SOL
And I will keep you company for those days so long and black
DO
And we'll keep working on the problem
SOL
We know we'll never solve
FA
Our love's un-even remainders
SOL
Our lives are fractions of a whole
LAm
But if the world could remain within a frame
FA
Like a painting on a wall
RE
Then I think we'd see the beauty then
SOL
We'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
SOL
By 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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capo 3 fret
SOL LAm
The future has got me worried, such awful thoughts.
RE
My head is a carousèl of pictures.
SOL SOL FA# SOL
The spinning never stops.
SOL LAm FA
I just want someone to walk in front and I'll follow the
SOL
leader
Continue until chorus
LAm RE SOL SOL/FA# MIm7
I know I should be brave but I'm just too afraid
RE
Of all this change
SOL SIm
So when i'm lost in a crowd, i hope that you'll pick me out.
LAm
Oh, How I long to be found.
RE
The grass grew high. I lay down.
SOL SIm
Now, I wait for a hand to lift me up, help me stand.
LAm RE
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.
DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA
He wakes up, drives to work, and then straight back home again.
DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA
He once cut one of my nightmares out of paper.
DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA
I thought it was beautiful, I put it on a record cover.
SOL DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA
And I tried to tell him he had a sense of color and composition so magnificent.
FA SOL FA SOL FA SOL FA SOL
And he said "Thank you, please but your flattery is truly not becoming me.
FA SOL FA SOL FA SOL FA
Your eyes are poor. You are blind. You see, no beauty could have come from
SOL
me
DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA DO FA FAmaj (003200) FA
I am a waste of breath, of space, of time."
etc....
From A Balance Beam:
RE LA
There is a man holding a megaphone, so he must have been the voice of God.
RE7 SOL
The 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
SIm LA
the lawn with a broken arm,
LA RE LA
so I called 911. So that is one less founded opinion. One more cause for a dispute.
RE7 SOL
So the street filled, like a basin, up with cameras and their crews
SOLm SIm LA
and they washed away the rumors leaving just the concrete truth. It was a spectacle.
LA RE LA
No, I mean a miracle. So then I fell like that girl from a balance beam.
RE7 SOL SOLm
A gymnasium of eyes were all holding on to me. I lifted one foot to cross the other
SIm LA LA
and I felt myself slipping. It was a small mistake. Sometimes that is all it takes.
SIm SOL LA
Now I'm staring at my wrist, hoping that the timing is right. When the
RE
planes will align.
SOL SOLm
There will be no planets to align. Just the carcass of the sun
SOLm
and 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 SOL
And one by one I drowned all of the people I had been.
SOLm SIm LA
I emerged to find the parallels were fewer. I was cleansed. I looked in the mirror
LA RE
and someone new was there. Still, I was as helpless as a chess piece
LA RE7
when I was lifted up by someone's hand and delivered from the corner my
SOL
enemies had got me in.
SOLm SIm LA
But in all of my salvation I still felt imprisoned inside that holding cell
LA
that is myself.
RE LA RE7
So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock
SOL
and the guard will say to me, "Oh my patient prisoner you have waited for
SIm
this day
LA LA
and finally you are free! You are free! You are freezing."
SIm SOL LA
Now I'm staring at the sun, waiting for it to explode. Because a day is
RE
gonna come,
SOL SOLm
don't know when but it will come and then we will finally know 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:
SOL LAm RE SOL
Laura are you still livin' there on your estate of sorrows?
SOL LAm RE SOL
You used to leave it occasionally but now you don't even bother
SOL LAm RE SOL
to ride the commuter train west to Chicago
SOL LAm RE SOL
to 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 DO
their beauty carved out of absolutes you could never claim
RE
or even envision
SOL LAm RE SOL
Laura you were the saddest song in the shape of a woman
SOL LAm RE SOL
yeah I thought you were beautiful but I wept with your movements
SOL LAm RE SOL
but I hope that you're laughing now from that place on the carpet
SOL LAm RE SOL
where we shared a sleeping bag in your sister's apartment
SOL LAm RE SOL
oh how she would worry so, you know I was just a stranger
SOL LAm SOL
but she asked me to care for you, yes she did
RE
and I went and betrayed her
SIm MIm DO RE
But do you know we're in high demand, Laura, us, people who suffer?
SIm MIm DO RE
because we don't take to arguing and we're quick to surrender.
SOL LAm RE SOL
Well I think I would call tonight if I still had your number
SOL LAm RE SOL
your thoughts have always laid close to mine, and we're both skipping supper.
SOL LAm RE SOL
But you should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living
SOL LAm
'Cause it's the ones with the sorest throats, Laura,
RE SOL
who have done the most singing
LAlalalalalalLalalALalAlala
Lets Not Shit Ourselves (To love and too be loved)
DO MI LAm FA DO MI LAm FA SOL DO MI LAm FA DO SOL DO
DO MI LAm
The animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness. A baby cried hard in an
FA SOL
apartment complex,
DO MI LAm
as I pass a car buried under the influence. The city is driving me out of my
FA
mind.
DO MI
I have seen a child is caught in the sad trap of gravity.
LAm FA SOL DO
He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree and lands in the grass and
MI
weeps for his dignity.
LAm FA DO SOL DO
Next time he will not aim so high. Yeah, next time, neither will I.
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