The Mountain Goats is the musical project of singer-songwriter and guitarist John Darnielle. The New Yorker magazine referred to him as &quot;America

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The Mountain Goats (de inglés: Las Cabras de Montaña) son una banda Americana de Rock Alternativo e Indie Rock y Lo-Fi. Lo encarga John Darnielle, y mucha gente cree que él es el único miembro, pero Peter Hughes, el bajista, es otro integrante de la banda, también. Darnielle empezó a grabar la música en 1991 con el grabador de un boom box. Hasta 2002, con el lanzamiento del Álbum, que se llama All Hail West Texas, The Mountain Goats se consideran de Lo-Fi, pero actualmente todos los nuevos álbumes han sido grabado en un studio profesional. 

E Am B (x2)

E
I got off work just past 11
C#m
Laid one finger to the breeze
A
You can almost taste the action
F#m                  B
On nights like these

E
Trees were bending in the wind
C#m
You were 40 miles away
    A
And I was headed your direction
F#m                      B                      (E)
I'd been waiting all day, I'd been waiting all day

E Am B (x2)

E
Moon over West Covina
C#m
Was huge and white
    A
And I was like a patient on a table
F#m                  B
Headed for the light

E
Leaned toward the center divider
C#m
Feel the wind in my hair
A
Keep a light up in your window
F#m                      B                     (E)
I'm gonna be right there, I'm gonna be right there

E                  Am
With a gleam in my eye
       E      C#m      A       B 
and an almost airtight   alibi

E C#m A B 
E

E
Down by the Chemistry building
C#m
I found a quiet place to park
       A
And I made my way down the street toward your place
F#m                         B
Stepping lightly in the dark

E
Climbed the steps up to your doorway
       C#m
Like a man prepared to jump beneath a train
          A
It's real warm outside tonight
F#m                     B                     (E)
Maybe tomorrow it rains, maybe tomorrow it rains

E Am B (x2)

E
Inside your room we shut the window
C#m
And we turned on a fan
       A
And we lay there together in the darkness
F#m                            B
I can keep a secret if you can

E
Finishing one another's sentences
       C#m
Like a pair of identical twins
     A
Your boyfriend's out of town until Tuesday
F#m                       B                   (E)
And nobody saw me come in, nobody saw me come in

E                  Am
With a gleam in my eye 
       E      C#m      A       B
And an almost airtight   alibi

E C#m A B
E

E Am B (x4)

Alibi

---INTRO---

| Bm | D | A | Em|

---VERSE---

Bm                     D
This is just to say hello
                 A
And to let you know
                         Em
I think of you from time to time
Bm                          D
I know I never really knew you
                    A
But somehow I miss you
                                Em
And wish that you'd stayed in my life
G                      D
Making contact gets harder
                        A
As the silence grows longer
                 Bm
And isn't it only me
G                             D
Who'd like us to see each other?
                            A
How I would hate to be a bother
                              Bm
The way we left it was you'd ring

---CHORUS---

D      G          Bm
I'm under no illusion
D        G           Bm
As to what I meant to you
G                     D
But you made an impression
D         G                    Bm
And sometimes I still feel the bruise
D          G                 Bm
Sometimes I still feel the bruise


---BRIDGE---

| Bm | D | A | Em| x 1

---VERSE---

Bm                      D
Now and then I stumble on
                               A
What I've misplaced but never lost
                           Em
An ache I first felt long ago
Bm                               D
Though you've appeared and disappeared
                             A
Throughout these past few years
                             Em
I'd be surprised if you now showed
G                     D
Making contact gets harder
                        A
As the silence grows longer
                           Bm
And why would you think of me
G                             D
When you were not the one in love?
                          A
When you were not the dreamer?
                         Bm
When you were just the dream?

---CHORUS---

D      G        Bm
I'm under no illusion
D      G             Bm
As to what I meant to you
G                     D
But you made an impression
D         G                      Bm
And sometimes I still feel the bruise
D       G                    Bm
Sometimes I still feel the bruise

---OUTRO---

| Bm | D | A | Em| x 2

| Bm | Bm (for three counts) | let ring | let ring || x 1

Sometimes I Still Feel The Bruise

Babylon Springs EP

Intro: C - Gm - Dm - F


Verse 1:

C                              
   This song is for the rats

Gm
   Who hurled themselves into the ocean

          Dm                             F
When they saw that the explosives in the cargo hold

     C
Were just about to blow


Verse 2:

This song is for the soil
That's toxic clear down to the bedrock
Where no thing of consequence can grow
Drop your seeds there, let them go


Refrain:

             Am   C  F  Am
Let them all go

            C       F  Am
Let 'em all go


Verse 3:

This song is for the people
Who tell their families that they're sorry
For things they can't and won't feel sorry for

And once there was a desk
And now it's in a storage locker somewhere
And this song is for the stick pins and the cottons
I left in the top drawer


Interlude: C - F - Dm


Refrain:

Let 'em all go
Let 'em all go


Verse 4:

I wanna sing one for the cars
That are right now headed silent down the highway
And it's dark and there is nobody driving
And something has got to give


Verse 5:

I saw you waiting by the roadside
You didn't know that I was watching
Now you know
Let it all go


Refrain:

Let 'em all go
Let it all go

Cotton

We Shall All Be Healed

Db							Ab  
THE MOST REMARKABLE THING ABOUT COMING HOME TO YOU IS THE FEELING OF BEING IN
Gb
MOTION AGAIN
IT'S THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY THING IN THE WORLD
    	Db 		     Ab                     Gb
I HAVE TWO BIG HANDS AND A HEART PUMPING BLOOD AND A 1967 COLT .45 WITH A
Db			     Ab 	               Gb
BUSTED SAFETY CATCH
          Ab	        Db               Gb
THE WORLD SHINES AS I CROSS THE MACON COUNTY LINE
          Db		Ab		Db
GOING TO GEORGIA
  
THE MOST REMARKABLE THING ABOUT YOU STANDING IN THE DOORWAY IS THAT IT'S YOU
AND THAT YOU'RE STANDING IN THE DOORWAY
AND YOU SMILE AS YOU EASE THE GUN FROM MY HAND AND I'M FROZEN WITH JOY RIGHT
WHERE I STAND
THE WORLD THROWS ITS LIGHT UNDERNEATH YOUR HAIR
FORTY MILES FROM ATLANTA, THIS IS NOWHERE
GOING TO GEORGIA

THE WORLD SHINES AS I CROSS THE MACON COUNTY LINE
GOING TO GEORGIA

Going To Georgia

A-2---2--6-6-7-6------------2---2-------------6-7-6-4------
E-2---2---------------------2---2----2-2-2-0---------------
C-3---3---------------------2---2--------------------------
G-4---4----------3-4-4--4---2---2---------------------4-3--


A-2---2--6-6-7-6-----------2---2-------------6-7-6-6-7-6-4-2-----2---2-
E-2---2--------------------2---2----2-2-2-0----------------------2---2-
C-3---3--------------------2---2---------------------------------3---3-
G-4---4----------3-4-4—--4-2---2---------------------------------4---4

Going To Bristol

Zopilote Machine

Intro: Am G F Am

Am			  G
feed the kittens in the kitchen.

F		      Am
set food out for the strays.

Am		     G
try hard to do your best.

F			   Am
the magpie will have his way.

fill your mouth with berries
by the full light of the moon.
work all night if you have to.
the magpie comes at noon.

Bridge: (with a somewhat more aggressive strumming pattern) Am G F Am

Magpie

INTRO

A    C#m   D     A
A    C#m   D     A
A    C#m   D     A
A    C#m   D     A


VERSE 1
                                                                                     
A         C#m                  D                   A
I broke free on a Saturday morning, I put the pedal too the floor
         A             C#m              D                 A
Headed north on Mills Avenue and listened to the engine roar

A    C#m   D     A
A    C#m   D     A

                  A                       C#m
My broken house behind me and good things ahead,
               D                         A
a girl named Cathy wants a little of my time

                 A                       C#m
Six cylinders underneath the hood crashing and kicking
       D                   A
aha! listen to the engine whine


CHORUS
               A                    C#m          D       A
I am going to make it through this year if it kills me
               A                    C#m         D         A
I am going to make it though this year if it kills me

VERSE 2

I played video games in a drunken haze,
I was seventeen years young
Hurt my knuckles punching the machines
the taste of scotch rich on my tongue

And then Cathy showed up and we hung out
trading swigs from a bottle all bitter and clean
locking eyes holding hands
twin high maintenance machines

CHORUS

BRIDGE
F#m                              A
I drove home in the California dusk,
F#m                                   A
I could feel the alcohol inside of me hum
F#m                                   A
Pictured the look on my stepfather's face,
D                           E
ready for the bad things to come.

VERSE 3
I down shifted as I pulled into the driveway,
the motor screaming out stuck in second gear
The scene ends badly as you might imagine
in a cavalcade of anger and fear
There will be feasting and dancing in Jerusalem next year

CHORUS

This Year

                  E                           C#m
I checked into a bargain priced room on la sienaga,
F#m                                    A        E
gazed out through the curtains of the parking lot.
                                            C#m
walked down to the corner store just before nightfall in my bare feet.
F#m                   A           E
   black tarry asphalt, soft and hot.
            A                             E
and when I came back I spread out my supplies.
        D
on the counter by the sink, 
            B
I looked myself right in the eyes
                   E      A
st. joseph's baby aspirin,
             B
bartles and james,
     E           A     B  E
and you or your memory.

                     E                           C#m
I ducked behind the drapes when I saw the moon begin to rise,
F#m                      A                     E
gathered in my loose ends switched off the light.
                                                C#m
and down there in the dark I can see the real truth about me.
  F#m           A                             E
as clear as day, lord if I make it through tonight
            A       E         D                            B
then I will mend my ways and walk the straight path to the end of my days.
                   E       A
st. joseph's baby aspirin,
             B
bartles and james,
     E           A      B  E  A  B  E  A  B  E  A  B  E  A   B  E.
and you or your memory.

You Or Your Memory

Intro:    E    A    E    A 

       E                                           A
King Saul fell on his sword when it all went wrong,
        E                                                    B
and Joseph's brother sold him down the river for a song,
        E                                                A
and Sonny Liston rubbed some tiger balm into his glove.
           F#                                          A                                      E
Some things you do for money, and some you do for love, love, love.


(E)    A    E    A


     E                                         A
Raskolnikov felt sick, but he couldn't say why
               E                                          B
when he saw his face reflected in his victim's twinkling eye
          E                                                A
Some things you'll do for money, and some you'll do for fun,
            F#                                              A                                  E
but the things you for love are going to come back to you one by one.


(E)    A


(A)                                                        E                     A
Love, love is going to lead you by the hand
                                             E                                   A
into a white and soundless place.
                              F#                   E                           A
Now we see things as in a mirror dimly,
                                            B
then we shall see each other face to face.


       E                                       A
And way out in Seattle, young Kurt Cobain
 E                                                       B
snuck out into the greenhouse, put a bullet in his brain.
  E                                                      A
Snakes in the grass beneath our feet, rain in the clouds above,
            F#                                   A                                            E
some moments last forever, and some flare out with love, love, love.

(E)  A    E    A

E    A    E    A

Love Love Love

E - C#m - A - B - E

E         C#m
36 Hudson in the garage
A                        E
All sorts of junk in the unattached spare room
E             C#m
Dishes in the kitchen sink
A                 B
New straw for the old broom
A                 E
Friends who don't have a clue
A            E
Well-meaning teachers
A                C#m                  A     B
But down in your arms, in your arms, 
            E                 A
I am a wild creature

E - A (x3)

E                            C#m
Floor two foot high with newspapers
A                          E
White carpet thick with pet hair
E                     C#m
Half-eaten gallons of ice cream in the freezer
A                  B
Fresh fuel for the sodium flares
A                            E
I write down good reasons to freeze to death
A               E
In my spiraling notebook
A               C#m                    A       B
But in the long tresses of your hair
                E        A
I am a babbling brook

E - A  (x3, end on A)

Broom People

A  D  (3x)
A

A                         D
You are sleeping off your demons
A           D
When I come home
A                        E
Spittle bubbling on your lips
A          D
Fine white foam
A                   D
I am young and I am good
       A                       D
It's a hot Southern California day
A             E
If I wake you up
A                     D
There will be hell to pay
                A
And alone in my room
         D                    A
I am the last of a lost civilization
D                     A
And I vanish into the dark
    D             A
And rise above my station
D             A
Rise above my station

D A D A E A A

      A                         D
But I do wake you up and when I do
    A                           D
You blaze down the hall and you scream
A                      E
I'm in my room with my headphones on
A         D
Deep in a dream chamber
    A                      D
And then I'm awake and I'm guarding my face
A                         D
Hoping you don't break my stereo
        A                         E
Because it's the one thing that I couldn't live without
         A
And so I think about that
       D
Then I sort of black out
                            A
Held under these smothering waves
        D                       A
By your strong and thick veined hand
D                A
But one of these days
          E                  A
I'm gonna wriggle off on dry land

A  D (3x)
A

Hast Thou Considered The Tetrapod

Intro: G E (x3)  C D


Verse 1:
               G             C         D              G
alright i'm on johnson avenue in san luis obispo
        G          C             D       G
and i'm five years old or six maybe.
        G                    C                    D       G
and indications that there's something wrong with our new house,
C               D
  trip down the wire twice daily.

Verse 2:
          G       C                 D         G
i'm in the living room watching the watergate hearings,
        G           C            D      G
while my stepfather yells at my mother
            G               C    D                G
launches a glass across the room, straight at her head.
      C                     D
and i dash upstairs to take cover,


Chorus 1:
        C                                G
lean in close to my little record player on the floor,
C                         D
  so this is what the volume knob's for,
             G      C     D       G
i listen to         dance music.
G     C     D       G
      dance music.


Bridge:  same as intro...

Verse 3:
                G         C     D     G
okay so look i'm seventeen years old
           G         C           D      G
you're the last best thing i got going
             G              C
but then the special secret sickness
          D           G
starts to eat through you
          C                D
what am i supposed to do?     no way of knowing

Verse 4:
     G          C            D              G
so i follow you down your twisting alleyways
       G          C         D    G
find a few cul-de-sacs of my own
             G         C         D         G
there's only one place this road ever ends up
    C                 D
and i don't wanna die alone

Chorus 2:
                    C                 G
let me down, let me down, let me down gently
C                         D
  when the police come to get me
             G      C     D       G
i listen to         dance music.
G     C     D       G
      dance music.

Outro : G C D G (x4)

Dance Music

D D G A | D D G A | D D

        D                                       Asus4 A
there's bound to be a ghost at the back of your closet
G   A               D
no matter where you live.
         D                             Em
there'll always be a few things, maybe several things
            G                 A                D
that you're gonna find really difficult to forgive.

D D Asus4 A G A | D D

there's gonna come a day when you feel better.
you'll rise up free and easy on that day.
and float from branch to branch, lighter than the air.
     G                                Asus4        A (same for all the other verses)
just when that day is coming, who can say? who can say?

    D               G           D                G
our mother has been absent ever since we founded rome.
            D          A                         D
but there's gonna be a party when the wolf comes home.

D D Asus4 A G A | D D

we're gonna commandeer the local airwaves
to tell the neighbors whats been going on.
and they will shake their heads and wag their bony fingers
in all the wrong directions, and by daybreak we'll be gone.

D D Asus4 A G A | D D

I'm gonna get myself in fighting trim,
scope out every angle of unfair advantage.
I'm gonna bribe the officials. I'm gonna kill all the judges.
it's gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage.

our mother has been absent ever since we founded rome.
but there's going to be a party when the

Up The Wolves

The Sunset Tree

Intro: C

C                          Em
Fog lifts from the harbor, dawn goes down to day
   Am                              F
An agent crests the shadows of the nearby alleyway
C                       Em
Piles of broken bricks, sign posts on the path
Am                              F
Every moment points towards the aftermath
Yeah

Interlude: C, Dm, F X2

C                                Em
Sailors straggle back from their nights out on the town
Am                             F
Hopeless urchins from the city gather round
C                         Em
Spies from imperial China wash in with the tide
      Am                  F
Every battle heads toward surrender on both sides

                 C              Am
Chorus: And I am coming home to you
        F               C  G
With my own blood in my mouth
         C         Am
And I am coming to you
            F          C      G
If it's the last thing that I do


C                        Em
Bells ring in the tower, wolves howl in the hills
Am                                F
Chalk marks show up on a few high windowsills
      C                                Em
And a rabbit gives up somewhere, and a dozen hawks descend
Am                            F
Every moment leads toward its own sad end
Yeah

(Interlude)

C                                Em
Ships loosed from their mornings capsize and then they're gone
Am                             F
Sailors with no captains watch awhile and then move on
       C                              Em
And an agent crests the shadows and I head in her direction
Am                        F
All roads lead toward the same blocked intersection

             C              Am
Chorus: I am coming home to you
        F               C   G
With my own blood in my mouth
         C         Am
And I am coming to you
            F          C      G
If it's the last thing that I do

( Do the interlude 3 or 4 times and end on C )

Sax Rohmer 1

A
Well they come and pull me from my house
                                  D
And they drag my body through the streets
                                  E              D
And the sun's so hot I think I'll catch fire and burn up
                               A
in the summer air so moist and sweet

                               A
And the people all come out to cheer
                              D
Rocks in the pathway break my skin
                               E            D
And there's honeysuckle on the faint breeze today
                              A
With every breath I'm drawing in

          F#m                 D
I want to cry out but I don't scream and I don't shout
           A              D
And I feel so proud to be alive
           A  E                 D
And I feel so proud to when the reckoning arrives


                          A
Crowds grow denser by the second
                             D
As we near the center of the town
                                   E                 D
And they dig a trench right in the main square right there
                                 A
And they pick me up and throw me down

                            A
And I start laughing like a child
                              D
And I mark their faces one by one
                       E              D
Transfigurations gonna come for me at last
                                A
And I will burn hotter than the sun

         F#m                     D
I waited so long and now I taste jasmine on my tongue
           A              D
And I feel so proud to be alive
           A  E              D
And I feel so proud when the reckoning arrives


end on A

Heretic Pride

# Intro (x2)
C Cmaj7 Am G

# Verse 1
C            Cmaj7        Am           G
Hand me your hand let me look in your eyes 
C                         Cmaj7  Am           G
as my last chance to feel human begins to vaporize 
C              Cmaj7        Am             G
maybe it's the heat in here maybe it's the pressure 
F
you ought to head for the exits the sooner the better

# Chorus
          C      Cmaj7    Am                G
I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam 
C             Cmaj7      Am                 G
And no in her right mind would make my home her home
F
My heart is an autoclave
F
My heart is an autoclave

# Interlude (x2)
C Cmaj7 Am G

# Verse 2
C                  Cmaj7     Am               G
When I try to open up to you I get completely lost
C                Cmaj7        Am                 G
Houses swallowed by the earth windows thick with frost
C                     Cmaj7      Am                     G
And I reach deep down within but the pathways twist and turn
F
And there's no light anywhere and nothing left to burn

# Chorus
                          C     Cmaj7    Am                G
And I am this great unstable mass of blood and foam
C              Cmaj7               Am                    G
And no emotion that's worth having can call my heart its home
F
My hearts an autoclave
F
My hearts an autoclave

# Solo (x4)
C Cmaj7 Am G

# Bridge
C                    Cmaj7          Am              G
I dream't that I was perched atop a throne of human skulls
C                    Cmaj7         Am                 G
On a cliff above the ocean howling wind and shrieking seagulls
C                     Cmaj7       Am           G
And the dream went on forever one single static frame
F
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name

# Chorus
          C      Cmaj7    Am                G
I am this great, unstable mass of blood and foam 
C             Cmaj7      Am                 G
And no in her right mind would make her home my home
F
My heart is an autoclave
F
My heart is an autoclave

# Outro (x4)
C Cmaj7 Am G F F

Autoclave

Intro: D E G D  X2

D	     E  G		  D
Window facing an ill-kept front yard

D		E  G		   D
Plums on the tree heavy with nectar

D		E  G		   D		
Prayers to summon the destroying angel

D	E		G				D
Moon stuttering in the sky like film stuck in a projector

G        D    G D
And you, You

D E G D  X2

Repeat

Tallahassee

Intro: A F#m D E D
       A F#m D E

A                         F#m      
From the housetops to the gutters
D                       E      D
From the oceans to the shores
    A                                      F#m
The warning signs have all been bright and garish
D                           E
Far to great in number to ignore

   
From the cities to the swamplands
From the highways to the hills
Our love has never had a leg to stand on
From the aspirins to the cross-tops to the Elevils

           D   E            A        D
But I will walk down to the end with you
            A                E         A
If you will come all the way down with me

From the entrance to the exit
Is longer than it looks from where we stand
I wanna say I'm sorry for stuff I haven't done yet
Things will shortly get completely out of hand

I can feel it in the rotten air tonight
In the tips of my fingers in the skin on my face
In the weak last gasp of the evening's dying light
In the way those eyes I've always loved illuminate this place

       D                  E
Like a trashcan fire in a prison cell
         A                   F#m
Like the searchlights in the parking lots of hell
       D   E            A        D
I will walk down to the end with you
            A                E         A
If you will come all the way down with me

Old College Try

C#m  F# (2x)
D  E
A

A                    E
I hope that our few remaining friends
D                    A
Give up on trying to save us
  A                      E
I hope we come up with a failsafe plot
        D                        A
To piss off the dumb few that forgave us
A                    E
I hope the fences we mended
D                           E
Fall down beneath their own weight
      A                        F#m
And I hope we hang on past the last exit
  D                     E
I hope it's already too late
    A                                          F#m
And I hope the junkyard a few blocks from here

Someday burns down
    D
And I hope the rising black smoke carries me far away
                 E                  D
And I never come back to this town again
      E             A
In my life I hope I lie
         F#m
And tell everyone you were a good wife
               A
And I hope you die
          E         A
I hope we both die

C#m  F#  (2X)
D  E
A

A                   E
I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow
D                        A
I hope it bleeds all day long
    A                          E
Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises
     D                             A
Well we're pretty sure they're all wrong
A                       E
I hope it stays dark forever
D                      E
I hope the worst isn't over
    A                       F#m
And I hope you blink before I do
  D                E
I hope I never get sober
      A
And I hope when you think of me years down the line
    F#m
You can't find one good thing to say
      D
And I hope that if I found the strength to walk out
                              E
You'd stay the hell out of my way
     D                            E
I am drowning there is no sign of land
                       A                   F#m
You're all coming down with me (yeah yeah) hand in unlovable hand
               A
And I hope you die
          E        A
I hope we both die

C#m  F#  (2X)
D  E
A

No Children

G  C F (4x)

G
 Dug up a fifth of Hood River gin
C
 That stuff tastes like medicine
         F         C
But I'll take it
      G
It'll do
       G
On the couch in the living room all day long
   C
Music on the television playing our song
             F      C
I'm in the mood
             G
The mood for you

G  C F (2x)

G
 Turn the volume up real high
  C
All of that money look at it fly
          F    C         G
And you smoking like a chimney
G
Shadows crawled across the living room's length
 C
I held onto you with a desperate strength
        F      C                 G
With everything with everything in me
       D                        C
And I handed you a drink of a lovely little thing
   G
On which our survival depends
D                            C
People say friends don't destroy one another
                          D
What do they know about friends?

G  C F (4x)

G
Thunderclouds forming cream white moon
  C
Everything's going to be okay soon
         F       C
Maybe tomorrow
          G
Maybe the next day
G
Carried you up the stairs that night
       C
All of this could be yours if the price is right
        F                     C
I heard cars headed down to oblivion
             G
Up on the expressway
D
Your drunken kisses as light as the air
       C                                      G
Maybe everything that falls down eventually rises
D
Our house sinking into disrepair
         C                                           G
Ah but look at this showroom filled with fabulous prizes

G
G  C F

Game Shows Touch Our Lives

Intro - G D G D G D Em C G D D7

G       D           Em
All the lengthening hours in the refinery

C               D
Belching fire into the sky

          G    D   Em
We do our best vampire routines

      C              D7
As we suck the dying hours dry

Am                       G D G D
The night is lovely as a rose

   C
If I see sunlight hit you

     D
I am sure that we'll both decompose

G D G D G D Em C G D D7

G       D      Em
All the fitful sleep and the fire engines

C               D
That I dream of when I dream

     G         D         Em
Some day we'll both wake up for good

C               D7
I will try hard not to scream

Am                              G D G D
The evening wind will shake the blinds

       C
You're stirring from your slumber

          D
We've got something hateful on our minds

   G    D    Em
Oh sing sing sing

        C            D
For the dying of the day

G            D                Em
Sing for the flames that will rip through here

        C                     D7
And the smoke that will carry us away

    G            D            Em
And sing for the damage we've done

        C                       D
And the worse things that we'll do

G         D            Em
Open your mouth up and sing for me now

    C               D
And I will sing for you


G D G D G D Em C G D D7

G D G D G D Em C G D D7

G D G D G D Em C G D

Alpha Rats Nest

       C              F               C                 F
On the morning when I woke up without you for the first time
       C               G                 C
I felt free and I felt lonely and I felt scared
      C        F             Am                 F
And I began to talk to myself almost immediately
          C       G         F           G        C
Not being used to being the only person                                
    
    C                 F               C                       F
The first time I made coffee for just myself, I made too much of it
               C            G              F                C
But I drank it all just you hate it when I let things go to waste
      C                    F                   Am              F
And I wandered through the house like a little boy lost in the mall
       C                  G               F               G
And an astronaut could've seen the hunger in my eyes from space

And I sang
C             G             F             C
Oh, What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?
C         G          C
What do I do without you?

       C              F               C                 F
On the morning when I woke up without you for the first time
      C                  G      F                    C
I was cold so I put on a sweater and I turned up the heat
        C              F              Am              F
And the walls began to close in and I felt so sad and frightened
              C            G               F        C
I practically ran from the living room out into the street
        C             F            C              F
And the wind began to blow and the trees began to pant
        C            G                       C
And the world in its cold way started coming alive
      C                  F           Am               F
And I stood there like a business man waiting for the train
      C         G                 C
And I got ready for the future to arrive

And I sang
C             G             F             C
Oh, What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?
C         G          C
What do I do without you?

Outro-   C F C F C G  C    C hold

Woke Up New

Get Lonely

D               G              D
Unknown engines underneath the city
D                   G                   A
Steam pushing up in billows through the grates
        Bm                G              D        G
Frankie Lymon's tracking Seabreeze in a studio in Harlem
Em    A
It's nineteen sixty-eight


D               G              D
Just a pair of tunes to hammer out
D                   G        A
Everybody's off the clock by ten
    Bm        G             D          G
The loneliest people in the whole wide world
        D                  A           D
are the ones you're never going to see again



D                   G           D
Feel so free when I hit the avenue
D              G               A
Nothing like a New York summer night
Bm              G                      
Every dream's a good dream
     D                G
Even awful dreams are good dreams
D                  A
If you're doing it right


D                G               D
Remember soaring higher than the clouds
D               G              A
Get pretty sentimental now and then
    Bm        G             D          G
The loneliest people in the whole wide world
        D                  A           D
are the ones you're never going to see again
 

Bm             G                     D
And four hours North of Portland the radio flips on
         Bm              G                            A
And some no one from the future remembers that you're gone


D              G            D
Armies massing in the dusky distance
D              G               D
Ghosted in the ribbon microphone
Bm             G                 D
Leave a little mark on something maybe
Em              Asus4   A
Take the secret circuit home


D              G               D
Nothing in the shadows but the shadow hands
D               G                    A
Reaching out to sad young frightened men
    Bm        G             D          G
The loneliest people in the whole wide world
        D                  A           D
are the ones you're never going to see again

         Bm        G             D          G
Yeah the loneliest people in the whole wide world
        D                  A           D
are the ones you're never going to see again

Harlem Roulette

Transcendental Youth

Ab                 Db
You and me are in a lot of trouble
Ab                   Eb
And somebody's gonna burst our bubble
Ab           Db
Your husband. My Wife.
Ab          Eb
My marriage. Your life.

* Chorus *
Ab                          Db
Let's go to Maine out on the East Coast.
Ab                      Eb
Let's go to Maine right now.
Ab                            Db
Let's beat the retreat. Let's hop on a plane.
Ab                    Eb
Let's get out of here. Let's go to Maine.

Someone knows what's going on
Someone knows, and someone's gonna tell
Someone's gonna wrap us up in styrofoam and paper
And mail us flat-rate right down to Hell

* Chorus x2 *

Ab Db Ab Eb
Ab Db Ab (E Eb Ab Db Ab)

Going To Maine

D                                   Em
the trees were all decked out in their best fall colors
A                      G
there was a snap in the air
D                      Em
when you eased down the window
        A                            G
and the new york sun brought out the highlights in your hair
     D       A
and gently, gently
D                 G
the constellations aligned
D                          A                        G
and as we crossed over the throgs neck bridge i had
          A             D 
something on my mind

when we rolled down the street
in the cool of the morning
i could feel the new day dawn
and somebody had gone and turned the waterworks on
and slowly, surely
i saw the whole story unwind
i had never loved anyone like i loved you
and i had something on my mind

Going To Port Washington

Ghana

Dmaj7                       D6sus2    Dsus4                    D5
          they'd hooked you up                  to a fentanyl drip

Dmaj7                        Dsus4               D6sus2    D5
       to mitigate the pain a little bit

Dmaj7          Dsus4   D6sus2                     D5
          i flew in                  from pennsylvania

Dmaj7                                     Dsus4            D6sus2    D5
       when i heard the hour was coming fast

Bm  G                      D5
      And i docked in santa barbara

Bm  G                    D5
      tried to brace myself

Bm  G                         D5
      but you can't brace yourself
        
          Bm         G                                   Asus4
when the time comes      you just have to roll with the blast

           Em                 G
and i'm an 18-wheeler headed down the interstate

       D5                                 A                G
and my brakes are gonna give and i won't know til it's too late

      C                         D
tires screaming when i lose control

           Asus4                        G
try not to hurt too many people when i roll

[instrumental]
Dmaj7 Dsus4 D6sus2 D5
Dmaj7 D6sus2 Dsus4 D5


Dmaj7                        Dsus4  D6sus2                   D5
         find the harbor freeway              and head south

Dmaj7           D6sus2    Dsus4                         D5
          real tired,                  head kind of light

Dmaj7                   D6sus2    Dsus4                               D5
i found telegraph road,                i'd only seen the name on envelopes

Dmaj7               Dsus4  D6sus2                   D5
found the parking lot                    and turned right

Bm  G                      D5
i felt all the details carving out space in my head

Bm  G                      D5
tropicanas on the walkway neon red

Bm  G                      D5
between the pain and the pills trying to hold it at bay

Bm  G                      Asus4
stands a traveler going somewhere far away

  Em                 G
and i am an airplane tumbling wing over wing

       D5                                 A                G
try to listen to my instruments they don't say anything

      C                         D
people screaming when the engines quit

           Asus4                        G
i hope we're all in crash position when we hit

[instrumental]
Dmaj7 D6sus2 Dsus4 D5
Dmaj7 D6sus2 Dsus4 D5
Dmaj7 D6sus2 Dsus4 D5
Dmaj7 D6sus2 Dsus4 D5


Dmaj7                       D6sus2
     and then came to your bedside

Dsus4
        and as it turns out

D5
i'm not ready

Dmaj7        D6sus2
     and as though

Dsus4                                     D5
        you were speaking through a thick haze

Dmaj7                   D6sus2   Dsus4  D5
      you said hello to me

Bm G            D5
we all stood there around you

Bm G            D5
happy to hear you speak

Bm G            D5
the last of something bright burning

Bm   G
still burning

               Asus4
beyond the cancer and the chemotherapy

           Em                 G
and you were a presence full of light upon this earth

       D5                                 A                G
and i am a witness to your life and to its worth

      C                         D
it's three days later when i get the call

           Asus4                        G
and there's nobody around to break my fall

Matthew 25:21

The Life Of The World To Come

INTRO - A D A E A D A E

A                                D
a knocking sound it woke me up,
A                        E
but my legs were feeling weak.
A                              D
i stared up at the ceiling and i saw you at the window.
A                     E        A
but my mouth wouldn't let me speak.

A
i know you.
E                A                    D         A
you're the one i spent three seasons trying to pretend
E            A
that i never knew.

something pulled me off the bed.
and the same thing moved the muscles in my legs.
i moved towards you voice, and my body got so light,
i could've walked on eggs right then and not broken a one of them.

(chorus)x4
//of course, after the first chorus, resort to strumming!//

The Window Song

Protein Source Of The Future... Now!

C   
Jaja, okay okay
                  F
Ya sé qué pasa aquí
   A#                            C
Encuentras la grandeza frente a ti
             C
Y no sabes bien qué sentir
       F            A#                      C
Es adorable, que jamás los humanitos cambiarán
           C       F
Despierta ya, oye bien, 
           A#                   C
este como ves es Maui, de verdad
             C                F
Sé que como yo no encuentras dos
        A#          C
Lo que miras es un semi Dios

[Coro 1]
Am         F           C
  Yo solo sé decir de nada
        E7               Am
Por el mar, el cielo, el sol
                F            C
No hay de que agradecer, de nada
     E7                    C
Soy sólo un ordinario semi yo

[Estrofa 2]
C                                F  
Hey, ¿qué fortachón el cielo elevó?
                        A#
Cuando eras de esta altura, éste
C                  C
  Si la noche enfrió, 
                  F
¿quién fue quien fuego te llevó?
       A#          
¿Qué, alguien me nombró? 
C              C       F
  Oh, yo sólo lazo el sol
          A#                    C
De nada, para estirar tu diversión
          C       F
Brisa yo hago soplar, de nada, 
   A#           C
y así tus velas elevar

[Coro 2]
Am        F            C
  Yo sólo sé decir de nada, 
        E7                  Am
por las islas que traje del mar
              F                  C
No ruegues jamás, nunca más, de nada
         E7                     Am
¡Ha! Genial es mi manera de servir, 
    F
de nada, 
    C
de nada

[Parte Rap]
C
De nada dudes ya
Hey, honestamente te explicaré 
de natural modo cada fenómeno
El mar, el sol, el gas, 
oh, ese es Maui hablando de más
Anguilas que, yo las enterré, 
de la palmera los cocos creé
Un consejo, una lección te doy
No me molestes si en mi descanso estoy
Am
  El tapiz que en mi piel se ve, 
F
  es el mapa de lo que gané
C
  Por donde fui provoqué mil sucesos
E7
  Ve al pequeñín mini Maui nomás zapateando,
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ¡Hey!

[Coro 3]
Am          F              C
  Yo sólo puedo decir, de nada (de nada)
           E7              Am
Por el mundo especial que doy
                 F           C
No hay de que agradecer, de nada (de nada)
    E7                     Am
De nada hablaré, que ya me voy
          F            C
Te toca a ti decir de nada (de nada)
       E7             Am
Pues quiero esa barca ya
             F          C
Muy lejos navegaré, de nada (de nada)
       E7               Am
Pues Maui nada sabe de nadar
              F                 C  F C
(De nada) De nada (De nada) de nada
         C
Y gracias

De Nada

G      Em
I found a love for me
               C                         D
Darling just dive right in, and follow my lead
                G                 Em
Well I found a girl beautiful and sweet
          C                                  D
I never knew you were the someone waiting for me

                                 G
Cause we were just kids when we fell in love
              Em                     C               G  D
Not knowing what it was, I will not give you up this ti-ime
                   G                         Em
But darling just kiss me slow, your heart is all I own
             C                  D
And in your eyes you’re holding mine

       Em   C            G          D              Em
Baby, I’m dancing in the dark, with you between my arms
C                G     D                Em
Barefoot on the grass, listening to our favorite song
          C                G                 D              Em
When you said you looked a mess, I whispered underneath my breath
         C                G        D             
But you heard it, darling you look perfect tonight

               G                    Em
Well I found a woman, stronger than anyone I know
                C                                        D
She shares my dreams, I hope that someday I’ll share her home
           G             Em
I found a love, to carry more than just my secrets
         C                              D
To carry love, to carry children of our own

                              G                     Em 
We are still kids, but we’re so in love, fighting against all odds
                  C               G  D
I know that we’ll be alright this ti-ime
               G                            Em 
Darling just hold my hand, be my girl, I’ll be your man
          C              D
I see my future in your eyes



       Em   C            G          D              Em
Baby, I’m dancing in the dark, with you between my arms
C                G     D                Em
Barefoot on the grass, listening to our favorite song
          C                G                 D               Em
When you said you looked a mess, I whispered underneath my breath
         C                G        D             
But you heard it, darling you look perfect tonight

G Em C D 


       Em     C            G          D              Em
Baby, I’m dancing in the dark, with you between my arms
C                G     D                Em
Barefoot on the grass, listening to our favorite song
          C                G                 D               Em
When you said you looked a mess, I whispered underneath my breath
         C                G        D             
But you heard it, darling you look perfect tonight


Perfect

BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP


C         G
Baa, baa, black sheep,
F            C
Have you any wool?

F        C
Yes sir, yes sir,
G          C
Three bags full.

C           G
One for the master,
F           C
One for the dame,

F               C
And one for the little boy
G                  C
Who lives down the lane.

Baa Baa Black Sheep

Intro (2X):
Am	G	F	C

Verse 1:
                C	               Am		
There's so much craziness surrounding me
                F	 	             G		            
There's so much going on it gets hard to breathe
     Am     F		                          C
When all my faith has gone you bring it back to me
Am	         G	       F   C
You make it real for me

             C	             Am		
When I'm not sure of my priorities
               F	 	             G		
When I've lost sight of where I meant to be
     Am   F		            C
Like holy water washing over me 
Am	         G	       F   C
You make it real for me

Chorus:
    G	    Am	   F	             C
And IIIIIIIII'm running to you baby
G    Am	              F	           C
  Youuuuuuuuu are the only one who saved me
       G     Am	         F	               C
That's    whyyyyyyy I've been missing you lately
      Am	         G	       F   C
Cause you make it real for me 

Verse 2:
          C	                   Am		
When my head is strong but my heart is weak
              F	 	          G		
I'm full of arrogance and uncertainty
     Am      F				                          C
When I can't find the words you teach my heart to speak
Am	         G	       F   C
You make it real for me yeah

Chorus:
    G	    Am	   F	             C
And IIIIIIIII'm running to you baby
G    Am	              F	           C
  Youuuuuuuuu are the only one who saved me
       G     Am	         F	               C
That's    whyyyyyyy I've been missing you lately
      Am	         G	       F   C
Cause you make it real for me 

Bridge:
G                           F                 C
    Everybody’s talking in words I don't understand
G                                    F              C
    You got to be the only one who knows just who I am
Em                                    F	
    You’re shining in the distance I hope I can make it through
           D	                              G                                    
Cause the only place that I want to be is right back home with you 


Verse 3:
                 C	             Am		
I guess there's so much more I have to learn
               F	 	                       G		
But if you're here with me, I know which way to turn
        Am         F		                   C
You always give me somewhere, somewhere I can run
Am	            G	       F   C
   You make it real for me 

Chorus:
    G	    Am	   F	             C
And IIIIIIIII'm running to you baby
G    Am	              F	           C
  Youuuuuuuuu are the only one who saved me
       G     Am	         F	               C
That's    whyyyyyyy I've been missing you lately
      Am	         G	       F   C
Cause you make it real for me 
Am	         G	       F   C
You make it real for me

You Make It Real

G         Em		  
1) Almost heaven,   West Virginia,
2) All my mem'ries, gather round her, 

   D			 C                G
1) Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah       River.
2) miner's lady,         stranger to blue water.

                      Em  
1) Life is old there, older than the trees, 
2) Dark and dusty,    painted on the sky, 

   D
1) younger than the mountains
2) misty taste of moonshine

   C			G
1) growin' like a breeze.
2) teardrop in my eye.

              G              D            Em        C
       Country roads, take me home, to the place I belong.
	      G               D              C            G
     West Virginia, Mountain momma, take me home Country roads


           Em       D            G 
 	I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me,
            C        G              D 
        the radio reminds her of my home far away
            Em               D            C
        and driving down the road I get a feeling 
 	       G                     D          D7    G
        that I should have been home yesterday, yesterday.

Country Roads

Am      C              F              C
I had a dream, we were sipping whisky neat
        F              C                 G
Highest floor, the Bowery, and nowhere’s high enough
    Am              C                F             C
Somewhere along the lines, we stopped seeing eye to eye
         F               C           G
You were staying out all night and I had enough


      F           Am             F                    C       
No, I don't wanna know where you been or where you're goin’
      F               Am                 G
But I know I won't be home and you'll be on your own


            F                    C                G
Who's gonna walk you through the dark side of the morning?
            F                 C                 G
Who's gonna rock you when the sun won't let you sleep?
             F                C               G         E7   Am
Who's waking up to drive you home when you're drunk and all alone?
             F                    C                G
Who's gonna walk you through the dark side of the morning, it ain’t me


Am        C              G         F   
Ow-ow, ah-ah the Bowery, ow-ow, ah-ah whiskey neat
Am          C       G         G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)

F         C              Am        G
Ow-ow, ah-ah the Bowery, ow-ow, ah-ah whiskey neat
F           C       G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)

Am     C           G      F   
Ow-ow, the Bowery, ow-ow, the whiskey neat
Am          C       G         G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)

F      C           Am     G
Ow-ow, the Bowery, ow-ow, the whiskey neat
F           C       G         G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)


Am  C  Am       C              F           C
       I had a dream, we were back to seventeen
       F                   C            G
Summer nights and the Libertines, never growing up
Am             C          F                 C
I'll take with me the polaroids and the memories
        F              C                G
But you know I'm gonna leave behind the worst of us


             F                    C                G
Who's gonna walk you through the dark side of the morning?
             F                 C                 G
Who's gonna rock you when the sun won't let you sleep?
             F                C               G         E7   Am
Who's waking up to drive you home when you're drunk and all alone?
             F                    C                G               
Who's gonna walk you through the dark side of the morning

         F      C     G
It ain’t me, no-o, no-o
         F      C     G
It ain’t me, no-o, no-o
         F      C     G  E7  Am
It ain’t me, no-o, no-o
             F                    C                G                
Who's gonna walk you through the dark side of the morning, it ain’t me


Am     C           G      F   
Ow-ow, the Bowery, ow-ow, the whiskey neat
Am          C       G         G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)

F      C           Am     G
Ow-ow, the Bowery, ow-ow, the whiskey neat
F           C       G         G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)

Am     C           G      F   
Ow-ow, the Bowery, ow-ow, the whiskey neat
Am          C       G         G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)

F      C           Am     G
Ow-ow, the Bowery, ow-ow, the whiskey neat
F           C       G         G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)

Am     C           G      F   
Ow-ow, the Bowery, ow-ow, the whiskey neat
Am          C       G         G
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I (it ain’t me)

F            C           Am           G
No no, no no no, Bowery, no no, no no no, whiskey neat
F           C       G                     Am
Where y’go, I’m so, grateful, I, it ain’t me

It Ain't Me

Intro/Verse
A|--4--1--3--6---------------------------------------------------|
E|--------1--4---------------------------------------------------|
C|--8--5---------------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|

Chorus
A|--1--4--4--4--6------------------------------------------------|
E|--------2-----4------------------------------------------------|
C|--5--8-----8---------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------------------|

Solo
A|--8-8-8-8-8-9-6-6-8-9-I----------8-------------------------------|
E|-------------------------9-9-9-9---4-4-4-------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

A|--8-8-8-8-8-9-6-6-8-9-I------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------9-9-9-9-------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------------------------------------------|

De tot cor

S                     S        
A|-------------------------------------| 
E|--6------6-6---3-------------------1-| 
C|-------------5---5-------------------| 
G|-------------------------------------| 
                                                              
A|----------------------------------------------------------| 
E|--1--1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1------------------------------| 
C|-----4-4-4-4-3-3-3-3-2-2-2-2------------------------------| 
G|----------------------------------------------------------| 

A|-----5--8--10--8--5--|--8-12--------12--|----5-8-10-8-5-------| 
E|--6------------------|------------------|--6------------------| 
C|---------------------|------------------|---------------------| 
G|---------------------|-------5--7-5-----|---------------------| 
     S      S      S      S            
A|----------------7------7-8----8---| 
E|--5-6----5-6------1----5-6----6---| 
C|--4-5------2------2-----------2---| 
G|---------6------6-----------------|

King Creole

Verse 1:
G                                    Em        G        Em
There was a girl who lived in London town.
G                                 Em                   G      Em
The scenes and sounds, they would only bring her down
C                                   D
She had polkadots and rubies in her dreams,
C                   D
French fantasies on cinema screens...
        C             G/B    Am     G
And she knew from the finish to the start
C      G/B      Am   G
It was bound to fall apart
C         G/B     Am   Em
Thanks to Cupid's lazy dart.
Em                                D
Wouldn't it be sweet if she could die from a broken heart?

G     Em      G      Em

Verse 2: (the same chords)
There was a boy who lived inside his head.
He couldn't face the world, so he turned his back instead.
He couldn't see in front of his eyes;
His fantasies of outlaws had him hypnotised...

And he knew from the finish to the start
It was bound to fall apart
Thanks to Cupid's lazy dart.                        F
Wouldn't it be sweet if he could die from a broken heart?

   C              G           F
Behold his golden wings
       C              G         F
And behold his bronze bow.
                 C             G         F
Can you hear his silver arrows sing?
       C               G     
As his gaylied favours glow.

(then go back to the normal verse bit)

There was a boy and girl who fell in love:
They both were in love with the stars and sky above,
Cinderella, cigarettes and scenes from the past
Were chasing them too fast for this love to ever last...

And they knew from the finish to the start
It was bound to fall apart
Thanks to Cupid's lazy dart.                         F
Wouldn't it be sweet if they could die from a broken heart? 

C   G    F    C    G

Repeat F  C  G until the end. End on G.

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