Bright Eyes is a band consisting mainly of American singer, guitarist, and songwriter Conor Oberst. Bright Eyes also features multi-instrumentalist/producer Mike Mogis, keyboard player Nate Walcott and a rotating lineup of collaborators drawn primarily from Omaha, Nebraska, and the United States' indie music scene.  Having been deeply influenced early on by singer-songwriters David Dondero and Simon Joyner, Conor Oberst has been recording music since the age of 13.

Bright Eyes est un groupe de la scène indie rock.    L'homme derrière ce groupe est Conor Oberst, un jeune auteur-compositeur de talent. Il vient d'Omaha (Nebraska) et a commencé la musique très jeune.  

Bright Eyes ist ein 1997 von Conor Oberst (* 15. Februar 1980) gegründetes Ein-Mann-Band-Projekt aus Omaha, Nebraska, das inzwischen auf sechs Alben und mehrere EPs zurückblicken kann. Die Singles 

Bright Eyes es una banda de indie rock conformada por el guitarrista y cantautor Conor Oberst, el multiinstrumentista y productor Mike Mogis, y una alineación rotativa de colaboradores provenientes principalmente de la escena indie de Omaha, Nebraska. La facilidad que tiene Oberst para la crítica social y la filosofía le han hecho ganarse comparaciones con Bob Dylan, aunque sus temas más oscuros, de depresión, ansiedad y alcoholismo tienen más reminiscencias a Leonard Cohen o a Simon Joyner.  

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I know that it is freezing, but I think we have to walk
       G                                                   C    CM7
I keep waving at the taxis, they keep turning their lights off
    Am                                            D
But Julie knows a party at some actor's West side loft
             C              Am             C        D         G
Supplies are endless in the evening by the morning they'll be gone

     G                                         C    CM7 
When everything is lonely I can be my own best friend
           G                                         C    CM7 
I'll get a coffee and the paper, have my own conversations
         Am                                           D
with the sidewalk and the pigeons and my window reflection
           C             Am             C         D        G
The mask I polish in the evening by the morning looks like shit
 
      C                                  G
And I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kiss
   C                                           G                   A7
So many men stronger than me have thrown their backs out trying to lift it
    C            Em              G        D     C
But me I'm not a gamble, you can count on me to split
           C               Am             C       D     G
The love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist

               G                                              C    CM7 
You're looking skinny like a model with your eyes all painted black
          G                                                 C    CM7 
Just keep going to the bathroom, always say you'll be right back
      Am                                                   D
Well, it takes one to know one, kid, I think you've got it bad
              C           Am             C         D      G
But what's so easy in the evening by the morning's such a drag

        G                                              C    CM7 
I got a flask inside my pocket, we can share it on the train
           G                                               C    CM7 
And if you promise to stay conscious I will try and do the same
         Am                                              D
We might die from medication, but we sure killed all the pain
             C             Am             C       D       G
But what was normal in the evening by the morning seems insane

        C                                  G
And I'm not sure what the trouble was that started all of this
    C                                    G                A7
The reasons all have run away, but the feeling never did
         C                 Em                G      D      C
It's not something I would recommend, but it is one way to live
              C             Am               C       D     G
Cause what is simple in the moonlight by the morning never is
        C             Am                  C       D    Em   Eadd9 Em
It was so simple in the moonlight now it's so complicated
        C             Am                  C            Am
It was so simple in the moonlight, so simple in the moonlight
        C             Am            G
So simple in the moonlight (2 taps)

Intro:
E Ab Dbm
A B E
 
E             Ab               Dbm
This is the first day of my life
A             B                 E
Swear I was born right in the doorway
E                   Ab                         Dbm
I went out in the rain, suddenly everything changed
                Gb7              B
They're spreading blankets on the beach
 
E              Ab                 Dbm
Yours is the first face that I saw
A             B              E
Think I was blind before I met you
E                    Ab                         Dbm
Don't know where I am, don't know where I've been
         Gb7              B
But I know where I want to go
 
   E           B       Dbm
So I thought I'd let you know
         A              B
That these things take forever
 E      E      Dbm
I especially am slow
    Dm                                                          E
But I realized how I need you and I wondered if I could come home 
 
Interlude:
B Dbm
Dm Fm Fm       
 
E                Ab                  Dbm
I remember the time you drove all night 
A         B              E
Just to meet me in the morning 
E                  Ab                            Dbm
I thought it was strange, you said everything changed 
          Gb7                 B
You felt as if you'd just woke up 
 
           E             Ab               Dbm
And you said, "This is the first day of my life.
A                   B            E
I'm glad I didn't die before I met you.
E             Ab                   Dbm
Now I don't care, I could go anywhere with you,
      Gb7            B
And I'd probably be happy."
 
        E       B       Dbm
So if you want to be with me 
         A                 B
With these things there's no telling 
         E       E         Dbm
We'll just have to wait and see
                Dm                                                     E
But I'd rather be working for a paycheck than waiting to win the lottery 
 
Ab Dbm
 
          Dm                                                            E
Besides, maybe this time its different, I mean I really think you like me
 
Ab Dbm
Dm Fm Fm       
E Ab Dbm
Dm Fm Fm     
E

First Day Of My Life

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Capo on 2nd fret

G
I know that it is freezing

C
But I think we have to walk

G
Keep waving at the taxis

C
They keep turning the lights off

Am D
But Julie knows a party at some actor's westide loft

Am            C               Am              D                  G
Supplies are endless in the evening by the morning they'll be gone

G
When everything is lonely

C
I can be my own best friend

G
I get a coffee and the paper

C
Have my own conversations

Am
With the sidewalk and the pigeons

D
And my window reflection

Am         C              Am              D            G 
The mask I polish in the evening by the morning looks like shit

C
And I know you have a heavy heart

G
I can feel it when we kiss

C
So many men stronger than me

G A7
Have thrown their backs out trying to lift it

C Em 
But me I'm not a gamble

Am G C
You can count on me to split

Am        C               Am              D            G
The love I sell you in the evening by the morning won't exist

G
You're looking skinny like a model

C
With your eyes all painted black

G
Just keep going to the bathroom

C
Only say you'll be right back

Am
Well it takes one to know one kid

D
I think you've got it bad

     Am       C           Am              D                G
But what's so easy in the evening by the morning it's such a drag

G
I've got a flask inside my pocket

C
We can share it on the train

G
And if you promise to stay conscious

C
I'll try and do the same

Am
Well we might die from medication

D
But we sure killed all the pain

Am          C             Am              D            G
What was normal in the evening by the morning seems insane

C
And I'm not sure what the trouble was

G
That started all of this

C
The reasons all have run away

G A7
But the feeling never did

     C            Em            Am         G           C
It's not something I would recommend but it is one way to live


        Am      C             Am               D              G
Cause what is simple in the moonlight by the morning never is

             Am           C             Am        Em
It was simple in the moonlight now it's so complicated

           Am            C                           Am         C          Am      G
It was so simple in the moonlight, so simple in the moonlight, so simple in the moonlight...

           Am            C                           Am         C          Am      G
It was so simple in the moonlight, so simple in the moonlight, so simple in the moonlight...

Intro: G|G|C|C

Verse 1:
G                                                 C
I know that it is freezing but I think we have to walk
      G                                                   C
Keep waving at the taxis, they keep turning their lights off
     Am                                            D
But Julie knows a party at some actor's west-side loft
Am            C               Am              D                  G
Supplies are endless in the evening, by the morning, they'll be gone.
     G                                          C
When everthing is lonely, I can be my own best friend
         G                                        C
I get a coffee and the paper, have my own conversations
         Am                                             D
With the sidewalk and the pidgeons and my window reflection
Am         C              Am              D          
      G
The mask I polish in the evening, by the morning looks like shit.


Chorus 1:
       C                                 G
And I know you have a heavy heart, I can feel it when we kiss.
   C                                           G                     A7
So many men stronger than me have thrown their backs out, trying to lift it.
    C             Em              Am       G     C
But me, I'm not a gamble, you can count on me to split,
     Am    C               Am              D         
     G
The love I sell you in the evening, by the morning, won't exist.


Verse 2:
               G                                              C
You're looking skinny like a model with your eyes all painted black,
          G                                                C
Just keep going to the bathroom always say you'll be right back.
         Am                                              D
Well it takes one to know one kid, I think you've got it bad.
     Am       C           Am              D                G
But what's so easy in the evening, by the morning's such a drag.
            G                                              C
I've got a flask inside my pocket, we can share it on the train.
            G                                                C
And if you promise to stay conscious, I will try and do the same.
               Am                                             D
Yeah we might die from medication but we sure killed all the pain,
Am        C             Am              D            
 G
What was normal in the evening, by the morning, seems insane.


Chorus 2:
         C                                    G
And I'm not sure what the trouble was, that started all of this.
      C                                  G      A7
The reasons all have run away, but the feeling never did.
     C                      Em              Am     G      C
It's not something I would recommend but it is one way to live,
        Am      C             Am               D              G
'Cause what is simple in the moonlight, by the morning, never is.


              Am           C                  Am        Em
Yeah it was simple in the moonlight, now it's so complicated.
           Am            C             Am                       Am
It was so simple in the moonlight, so simple in the moonlight, so simple in
    C          ...G
the moonlight.....

# Bright Eyes - "Poison Oak"
# ('I'm Wide Awake It's Morning', 2005)

# Tabbed by Hal
# halburger@hotmail.com 

# d d d du dd u is the strum pattern

A               Dsus2
A               Dsus2


[Verse]

A                             Dsus2
Poison oak, some boyhood bravery
       A                                Dsus2
When the telephone was a tin can on a string 
     F#m                                            E
And I fell asleep with you still talking to me
                       A              Dsus2
You said you weren't afraid to die

A       Dsus2

    A                                       Dsus2
In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes
        A                                           Dsus2
Were you made ashamed, why'd you lock them in the drawer? 
   F#m                                    E
Well I don't think that I ever loved you more


[Chorus]

                A 
Than when you turned away
            Dsus2 
When you slammed the door
          A                          Dsus2
When you stole a car drove, towards Mexico 
          A                       Dsus2
And you wrote bad checks just to fill your arm
       F#m                     E
I was young enough, I still believed in war


A       Dsus2
A       Dsus2


[Verse 2]

E                                    F#m
But let the poets cry themselves to sleep
E                                                 F#m
And all their tearful words would turn back into steam

               A                Dsus2
But me, I'm a single cell on a serpent's tongue
               A                   Dsus2
And there's a muddy field where a garden was
                 A
And I'm glad you got away 
                Dsus2
But I'm still stuck out here
                F#m                    E                
My clothes are soaking wet from your brother's tears


A               Dsus2
A               Dsus2


[Bridge]

E                                       F#m
And I never thought this life was possible
E                                               F#m 
You're the yellow bird that I've been waiting for

              A                Dsus 2
The end of paralysis I was a statuette 
          A                  Dsus2
Now I'm drunk as hell on a piano bench
            A                     Dsus2
And when I press the keys it all gets reversed
              F#m                E
The sound of loneliness makes me happier

A               Dsus2
A               Dsus2
A               Dsus2
A               Dsus2

Poison Oak

Intro:
G C G C G C G

          G                           C         G
We must talk in every telephone Get eaten off the web
          G                             C                     D
We must rip out all the epilogues in the books that we have read
     G                                C
And in the face of every criminal Strapped firmly to a chair
     G               D              G
We must stare, we must stare, we must stare
        G                               C            G
We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell
     G                          C             D
Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell
       G                            C
And in the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn't dream
     G                 D             G
We must sing, we must sing, we must sing

It'll go like this:
    C           D
While my mother waters plants
       G              C
My father loads his guns
         C                 D
He says death will give us back to god
       Em               C     D                        (G)
Just like this setting sun is returned to this lonesome ocean

                                          G C G C
And then they splashed into the deep blue sea
 G       C        D       G C G     G  D  G
It was a wonderful splash

          G                       C                 G
We must blend into the choir Sing ecstatic with the whole
           G                        C             D
We must memorize nine numbers and deny we have a soul
              G                          C
And in this endless race for property and privilege to be one
    G             D           G
We must run, we must run, we must run
          G                              C                  G
We must hang up in the belfry where the bats and moonlight laugh
         G                            C            D
We must stare into a crystal ball and only see the past
         G                                          C
And in the caverns of tomorrow With just our flashlights and our love
         G           D                G
We must plunge, we must plunge, we must plunge

G
And then we'll get down there to the very bottom of everything
                                   (C)
And we'll see it, we'll see it, we'll see it

     C                 D         G                C
Oh my mornings coming back The whole world's waking up
    C                 D             Em           C
In the city buses are swimming past I'm happy just because
 C                                G C G
I found out I'm really no one

At The Bottom Of Everything

Intro:
E G7 Cm A B

Verse:
E           G#7               Cm 
This is the first day of my life
A             B                       E
I swear I was born right in the doorway
E                 G#7                            Cm
I went out in the rain suddenly everything changed
                  F#m                 B7
They're spreading blankets on the beach
E            G#7                 C#m
Yours is the first face that I saw
A             B                    E
I think I was blind before I met you
E       
Now I don't know where I am 
G#7                        C#m
I don't know where I've been
           F#m              B7
But I know where I want to go
         E           G#7       C#m
And so I thought I'd let you know
A                           B
That these things take forever
      E      G#7  C#m
I especially am slow
      F#m                  F#m 
But I realize that I need you 
                                  E G#7 C#m F#m Am
And I wondered if I could come home 
E                     G#7        C#m
Remember the time you drove all night
A            B               E          
Just to meet me in the morning
E                     G#7                        C#m
And I thought it was strange you said everything changed
            F#m                  B7
You felt as if you had just woke up 
              E                 G#7         C#m 
And you said "this is the first day of my life
A                 B                  E         
I'm glad I didn't die before I met you
E               G#7                            C#m  
But now I don't care I could go anywhere with you
        F#m             B7                 
And I'd probably be happy"?
          E       G#7     C#m
So if you want to be with me
           A                 B      
With these things there's no telling
        E       G#7       C#m
We just have to wait and see
                  F#m            
But I'd rather be working for a paycheck
                               E G#7 C#m
Than waiting to win the lottery
        F#m      
Besides maybe this time is different
                                E G#7 C#m F#m Am  E G#7 C#m F#m Am E
I mean I really think you like meeeeeeeee

Verse Riff:

A|-4-6-8-9-11-9-9/8-|-4-6-8-9-8-6-6-|
E|------------------|---------------|
C|------------------|---------------|
G|------------------|---------------|

A|-4-6-8-9-11-9-9/8-|-4-6-8-9-8-6-4-|
E|------------------|---------------|
C|------------------|---------------|
G|------------------|---------------|


Verse 1: C
The sun came up with no conclusion
It's flowers sleeping in their beds
The cities cometary's humming
I'm wide-awake, it's morning

I have my drugs, I have my woman
They keep away my loneliness
My parents have they have their religion
But sleep in separate houses

Chorus:
   Em                            Am
I read the body count out of the paper
     F       G                   C
And now it's written all over my face
 Em                                 Am
No one ever plans to sleep out in the gutter
    F                     G               C
Sometimes that's just the most comfortable place


Verse 2:
So I'm drinking, breathing, writing, singing 
Everyday up on the clock
My mind races with all my longings 
But cant keep up with what I got

I hope I don't sound too ungrateful  
What history gave modern man
The telephone to talk to strangers 
Machine guns and the camera lens

                Em                             Am
So when you're asked to fight a war that's over nothing
     F                G                 C
It's best to join the side that's gonna win
   Em                                Am
And no one's sure how all of this got started
                            F             G           C
But we're gonna make them goddam certain how its gonna end
               C
Oh ya we will, oh ya we will!

Verse 3 / Outro: C 
Well I could have been a famous singer
If I had someone else's voice
But failure's always sounded better        
Lets fuck it up boys, make some noise!

The sun came up with no conclusion
It's flowers sleeping in their beds
The cities cometary's humming
I'm wide-awake, it's morning

Road To Joy

       A           A/C#  F#m  E
If you hate the taste of wine
           A        A/C#        F#m   E
Why do you drink it till you're blind?
         A              A/C#       D               E
And if you swear that there's no truth and who cares
             F#m                  E
How come you say it like you're right?

            A         A/C#     F#m E 
Why are you scared to dream of god
              A     A/C#     F#m  E
When it's salvation that you want?
         A         A/C#             D        E
You see stars that clear have been dead for years
        F#m             E
But the idea just lives on

        A           A/C# F#m   E
In ours wheels that roll around
      A     A/C#    F#m  E
As we move over the ground
        A      A/C#             D       E
And all day it seems we've been in bewtween
  F#m              E
A past and future town

Chorus:
       F#m              E
We are nowhere and it's now
       F#m              E
We are nowhere and it's now
          D                       E
An like a ten-minute dream in the passenger seat
          A         E      Asus2/C#
While the world was flying by
               E                     E7
I haven't been gone very long but it feels like a lifetime

A  F#m  A  A/C#  A  F#m  A  A/C#  E  E7  E  E7


Bridge:
Bm                   E
I've bee sleeping so strange at night
Bm                      E
Side effects they don't advertise
Bm                    E
I've been sleeping so strange
Bm                  E
With a head full of pesticide

A  A/C#  F#m  E  A  A/C#  F#m  E

            A         A/C#     F#m  E
I've got no plans and too much time
        A           A/C# F#m  E
I feel too restless to unwind
           A       A/C#         D        E
I'm always lost in thought as i walk a block
      F#m            E
To my favorite neon sign

          A        A/C#      F#m   E
Where the waitress looks concerned
       A      A/C#   F#m  E
But she never says a word
              A        A/C#       D    E
Just turns the jukebox on and we hum along
      F#m            E
And i smile back at her

       A            A/C#  F#m  E
And my friend comes after work
         A        A/C#     F#m  E
When the features start to blur
               A        A/C#          D           E
She says these bars are filled with things that kill
           F#m                    E
By now you probably should have learned

Chorus:
           F#m              E
Did you forget that yellow bird?
                 F#m             E
How could you forget your yellow bird?
               D
And she took a small silver wreath and
         E
  pinned it onto me
          A            E         Asus2/C#
She said this one will bring you love
            E                       E7
And i don't know if it's true but i keep it for good luck

A  F#m  A  A/C#  A  F#m  A  A/C#

A  F#m  A  A/C#  A  F#m  A  A/C#  A


Tabbed By: Clayton

We Are Nowhere And It's Now

I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning

C                 G                F
 she kills, with foreign films, the emptiness of day to day
C                    G
 and i wait 'til the weekend comes
        F                                   C
so i can clear this uselessness from my brain
                      G
i count the days 'til she arrives
     F                               C
those precious minutes when she is mine
                 G                 F                          Am
as we walk from my front door to her car, we're so close and alone
                   G                  Am
but that will disappear in a room filled with the warmth
      G
of others', of others' company
                             C G F
theres just too much company
C            G             F
 theres just too much company
C             G                      F                      C
 so i hide my wounded pride and stare off into the other cars
                G                  F
if i could just speak the words to tell her exactly how i feel
C                      G
 count the ways that i might say it
    F                               C
but i know that none of them will work because
G                    F
she won't feel the same, we got this far
       Am                   G              Am                    G
but i can't go through with it because the truth would hurt too much

it hurts too much, this hurts too much


C                  G                  F
 she goes back to the west coast to drink in the sunshine
C                        G                                  F
 and i'll stay here in these dead plains and try to make a seed grow
C              G              F                        C
 and i would pray for rain if i thought that it would help

A Few Minutes On Friday

A Collection Of Songs Written And Recorded 1995-1997

D
you can make a plan, 
         A   
carve it into stone, 
        G  
like a feather fallin, 
       D
it is still unknown, 
until the clock speaks up, 
says its time to go, 
you can choose the high, 
or the lower road, 
might clench your fist, 
might fork your tongue, 
as you curse or praise, 
all the things you've done, 
and the faders move, 
and the music dies, 
as we pass over, 
on the arc of time, 

        G                      A
so you nurse your love like a wounded dove 
        D               G
in the covered cage of night, 
every star is crossed by frenetic thoughts
that separate and then collide, 
and they twist like sheets til you fall asleep
 then they finally unwind, 
its a black balloon its a dream 
youll soon deny, 

           D
i hear if you make friends, 
      G
with Jesus Christ, 
         A
you will get right up, 
           D
from that chalk outline, 
and you'll get dolled up, 
and you'll dress in white, 
all to take your place, 
in his chorus line, 

         G             
and then in you'll come with those 
A                    D             G 
marchin' drums in a saintly compromise, 
no more whisky slurs 
no more blonde haired girls for your whole eternal life, 
and youll do the dance that was 
choreographed at the very dawn of time, 
see i told you son the day would come, 


         D
you will die you die you die you die


        G                   A
to the deepest part of the human 
           D             G
heart the fear of death expands, 
so we cracked the code we have always know 
but could never understand, 
on a circuit board we will soon be born, 

D
again again and again and again...

Arc Of Time

G                                        Am
Some plans were made and rice was thrown 
C                            D
A house was built, a baby born 
C                             D
How time can move both fast and slow 
G
Amazes me 
G                                        Am
And so I raise my glass to symmetry 
C                                 D
To the second hand and its accuracy 
C                            D
To the actual size of everything 
G
The desert is the sand 
Em
You can't hold it in your hand 
C
It won't bow to your demands 
Am
There's no difference you can make 
D
There's no difference you can make 
Em
And if it seems like an accident 
C
A collage of senselessness 
Am
You aren't looking hard enough 
D
I wasn't looking hard enough 

C........G

G                            Am
An argument for consciousness 
C                             D
The instinct of the blind insect 
C                             D
Who makes love to the flower bed 
G
And dies in the first freeze 
G                                  Am
Oh I want to learn such simple things 
C                             D
No politics, no history 
C                             D
Till what I want and what I need 
G
Can finally be the same 
Em
I just got myself to blame 
C
Is everything up to fate 
Am
When there's choices I could make 
D
When there's choices I could make 
Em
Yeah, my heart needs a polygraph 
C
Always so eager to pack my bags 
Am
When I really wanna stay 
D
When I really wanna stay 

Em - C - Am - D
When I wanna stay (x4) 

Change....

G
The arc of time, the stench of sex 
G
The innocence you can't protect 
D
Each quarter note, each marble step 
D
Walk up and down that lonely treble clef 
C
Each wanting the next one 
G                                            
Each wanting the next one to arrive 
C
Each wanting the next one 
G
Each wanting the next one to arrive 

G
An argument for consciousness 
G
The instinct of the blind insect 
D
Who never thinks not to accept its fate 
D
That's fate, that's happiness and death 
C
You get to the next one 
G
You get to the next on down the line 
C
You get to the next one 
G
You get to the next on down the line 

G
The remedy of longing that 
G
Distills each dream and the song I had 
D
By morning watered down again 
D
On silver stars I wish and wish and wish 

C
Move on to the next one 
G
Move on to the next one down the line 
C
Move on to the next one 
G
Move on to the next one down the line 
C
You get to the next one 
G
You get to the next on down the line 
C
You get to the next one 
G
You get to the next on down the line

I Believe In Symmetry

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Gold Mine Gutted

Digital Ash In A Digital Urn

E                       B7
I'll have a blue Christmas without you
               B7                   E
i'll be so blue, thinking about you
  E              E7          A
decorations of red on a green Christmas tree
F#7                         B7
won't mean a thing dear, if you're not here with me


      E                                 B7
i'll have a blue christmas that's certain
      B7                              E
when all those blue memories start hurting
             E         E7                      A
and you'll be doin' alright, with your Christmas so white
      B7                               E
but i'll have a blue, blue, blue, blue Christmas


E	B7
B7	E
E	E7	A
B7	E

               E         E7               A
yeah, you'll be doin' alright, with your Christmas so white
  B7                                      E
but i'll have a blue, blue, blue, blue Christmas
  B7                                      E
but i'll have a blue, blue, blue, blue Christmas

Blue Christmas

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The First Noel

A Christmas Album

C                              G
The rain it started tappin, on the window near my bed
            Dm                         G
There was a loophole in my dreamin, so I got out of it
       Am                                F
And to my surprise my eyes were wide and already open
      Dm                                    G
To my nightstand and my dresser where those nightmares had just been
     C                                 G
So I dressed myself and left them, out into the grey streets
    Dm                              G
But everything seemed different, completely new to me
    Am                                  F
The sky, the trees, houses, buildings, even my own body
         Dm                      G
And each person I encountered, I couldn't wait to meet
      C                         G
And I came upon a doctor, who appeared in quite poor health
               Dm                                     G
I said there's nothing that I can do for you that you can't do for yourself
            Am                               F
He said "Oh yes you can just hold my hand, I think that that would help"?
     Dm                          G
So I sat with him a while, and I asked him how he felt

He said "I think I'm cured. In fact I'm sure. Thank you stranger,


            G
   for your therapeutic smile."


C   G   Dm   G   Am   F   
  G

         C                               G
So that's how I learned the lesson, that everyone's alone
    Dm                                   G
And eyes must do some raining, if you're ever gonna grow
            Am                                                  F
And when cryin don't help, you can't compose yourself it's best to compose a poem
   Dm                            G
An honest verse of longing, or a simple song of hope
               C                               G
That's why I'm singin' baby don't worry, cause now I got you back
          Dm                                   G
And every time you feel like crying, I'm gonna try and make you laugh
    Am                                               F
And if I can't, if it just hurts too bad, then we'll wait for it to pass
    Dm                                 G
And I will keep you company, for those days so long and black
               C                            G
And we'll keep working on the problem, that no one ever solved
          Dm                               G
Of love's uneven remainders, our lives are fractions of a whole
                 Am                                  F
But if the world could remain within a frame, like a painting on a wall
       Dm                                  G
Then I think we'd see the beauty and, we'd stand staring in awe

At our still lives posed, like a bowl of oranges


Like a story told, of fault lines, and soul, ohh, ohh
                        G                     C


Bowl Of Oranges

G                   Am         D                      G       
Laura are you still livin' there on your estate of sorrows?
G                      Am        D                        G
You used to leave it occasionally but now you don't even bother
G              Am         D            G
to ride the commuter train west to Chicago
G                     Am    D                   G                     
to stroll through the greenery in the park past the statues

Bm                     Em        C               D
how her eyes seemed to follow you, like a hated addiction
Bm                         Em                               C             
their beauty carved out of absolutes you could never claim 
          D
or even envision

G                 Am              D                  G
Laura you were the saddest song in the shape of a woman
G                      Am       D                      G
yeah I thought you were beautiful but I wept with your movements
G                      Am         D                        G
but I hope that you're laughing now from that place on the carpet
G                 Am          D                   G
where we shared a sleeping bag in your sister's apartment
G                 Am         D                       G
oh how she would worry so, you know I was just a stranger
      G             Am                    G       
but she asked me to care for you, yes she did 
D
and I went and betrayed her


Bm                     Em                   C                    D
But do you know we're in high demand, Laura, us, people who suffer?
Bm                        Em       C                    D
because we don't take to arguing and we're quick to surrender.

G                   Am        D                      G
Well I think I would call tonight if I still had your number
G                              Am            D                          G
your thoughts have always laid close to mine, and we're both skipping supper.
G                        Am             D                  G
But you should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living
G                             Am                                     
'Cause it's the ones with the sorest throats, Laura,
D                                     G
who have done the most singing

LAlalalalalalLalalALalAlala

Laura Laurent

             E
Our love is dead but without limits
          A
like the surface of the moon
        E                        B7
and the land between you and the mountains
      E                                 A
It is not these hiding places that have kept us innocent
                 E                B7              E
but the way you taught me to just let it all go by

         A
Please return, return
       E
to the person that you were
  C#m             B
And I will do the same
                A
'cause it's too hard to belong
   E
to somenone who is gone
    F#m
my compass spins
      A                  E
the wilderness remains

Make War

intro
e e

       e                         a                       e
You say that I treat you like a book on a shelf. I don't take you out that often
          d#sus2              a             a                   e
because I know that I completed you and that is why you are here.
             a                  e         d#sus2    a         e 
That is the reason why you stay here. How awful that must feel.
(keep repeating this)
You said you would be my dream. I could have you every night and if, by morning,
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 never leave my mind.
Are you the love of my lifetime? Because there have been times I have had my doubts.
We were just kids when I first kissed you in the attic of my parents house,
and I wish we were there now. It took so long to figure out what this book has 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 a boomerang.
You see. You will return to me.

e   a
    e                                           a       
You will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will.
                d#sus2         a          e
You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. You? Will. (x2)
                                a           e                             
Because if you don't, then this book is all lies. If you don't, then my 
a                  e
plans would all be ruined.
                         a                             d#sus2
If you don't, I'll start drinking like the way I drank before.
       a                e
And I just wont have a future anymore

You Will

Am G C F
Am G C F E

Am           G
I picked you out 
C          F
Of a crowd to talk to you 
Am		  G
Said I liked your shoes 
C               F
You said thanks can I follow you? 
Am             G
So it's up the stairs 
C                F
And out of view, no prying eyes 
Am            G
I poured some wine 
C                 F                 E
I asked your name you asked the time
Am             G
Now it's two o'clock, 
C                  F
the club is closed we're up the block
Am            G
Your hands on me 
C             F
Pressing hard against your jeans
Am                G
Your tongue in my mouth 
C                        F
Trying to keep the words from coming out
Am                 G
You didn't care to know 
C            F             E
Who else may have been you before


I want a lover I don't have to love 
I want a girl who's to sad to give a fuck
Where's the kid with the chemicals? 
I thought he said to meet me here but I'm not sure
I got the money if you got the time 
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
Bad actors with bad habits 
Some sad singers 
They just play tragic
And the phone's ringing 
And the van's leaving 
Let's just keep touching
Let's just keep keep singing

I want a lover I don't have to love
I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk
Where's the kid with the chemicals
I got a hunger and I can't seem to get full
I need some meaning I can memorize
The kind I have always seems to slip my mind

But you but you 
You write such pretty words
But life's no story book 
Love is an excuse to get hurt 
And to hurt 
"Do you like to hurt?" 
"I do! I do!"
"Then hurt me."

Lover I Dont Have To Love

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Lover I Don't Have To Love

LIFTED Or The Story Is In The Soil, Keep Your Ear To The Ground

intro: (acoustic scratching noises preparing the
listener for a definitive rocker)

    G                 C
the city has sex with itself i suppose
       D                           G      (G/F#)
as the concrete collides, well the scenery grows
        G                        C
and the lonely once bandaged lay fully exposed
       D                             (G)
having exposed their wounds for each other
               G                        C
and there is a boy in a basement with a four track
                  D                           G
machine he's been strumming and screaming all night,
 (G/F#)        G                        C
down there.the tape hiss will cover the words that he
                             D
sings but then they say it's better to bury your
             C                        G
sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the
          A              C                    D
spring to awake from its sleep and burst into green
         G                   Em
and i've cried and you would think i would better for
                        D
it but the sadness just sleeps and it stays in your
C                          G             G
spine for the rest of your life and i've learned and
      Em
you'd think i'd be something more now, but it just
        D                       C
goes to show it is not what you know its what you were

G
thinking at the time.   (then)

****the prog-latin part****:
A  A  A    C  C   F

repeat same repetition of verse/chorus music for last
verse.

City Has Sex

Letting Off The Happiness

Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed)


Intro:
A Bm A D Dm A Dm Dm


Verse:
A Bm A D Dm A Dm Dm
A Bm A D Dm A Dm Dm
A Bm A D Dm A D  Dm Dm

'Its Kill Or Be...'
Bm C#m D


Break: 
A Bm A D Dm A E


Verse:
A Bm A D Dm A Dm Dm
A Bm A D Dm A Dm Dm
A Bm A D Dm A D  Dm Dm


'Do You Agree...'
Bm C#m D


Outro:
A Bm A Bm 
D Dm D Dm 
D D  E Dm

Clairaudients

Intro: G G G C x 4

     G      G         G      C         G     G     G   C
The Wife forgave the Mistress for she only entertained
     G         G         G   C       G          G         G          C
The pain was gone the instant she cleared her throat to speak her name
        Em                              C                          
Said, "Both of us must suffer from the same unending ache"


G G G C x2

      G        G        G    C            G       G      G   C
The world was not of interest though her days were never dull
     G     G        G    C      G        G        G    C
Her bed beneath a crucifix on guests performing miracles
         Em                               C              G G G C x2
With the Son of God just hanging like a common criminal
      Am            C                       G G G C x2          
When I do wrong I am with God, she thought
      Am           C              G G G C x2
When I feel lost I am not at all

            Bm
So give me Black Light (Give Give me)
            C
So give me Hot Knives (Deep Clean sleep)
       Am                 D
On a dance floor no one tells time (There is no time)

        Am                    C                       G G G C x2
Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what?
        Am               C                        G G G C x2
I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up

      G      G     G    C          G    G        G  C
She went to see a Mystic who made medicine from rain
      G      G      G    C          G       G         G          C
And gave up her existence to feel everything, dream others' dreams
       Em                        C                 G G G C x2
Bid farewell to her family with one ecstatic wave (Please take care I love you all)

          Am           C               G G G C x2
Out the window as the car rolled away
          Am               C                   G G G C x2
She just vanished into a thick mist of change

            Bm
So let us rejoice (Let's Rejoice!)
              C
In all this Pink Noise (Out Pink Noise!)
         Am                 D
An oscillation that we can pin point (We're right here!)

Am C x5
Am C D
End On: G

Hot Knives

Death may come invisible
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Or in a Holy wall of fire                                                                        
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In the breath between the markers                                                                        
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 A   
   
On some black I-80 mile                                                                 
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From the madness of the governments
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To the vengeance of the sea                                                                        
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Everything is eclipsed                                                                       
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By the shape of destiny                                                                 
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Chorus:

So love me now                                                                         
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Hell is coming                                                                         
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Kiss my mouth                                                                         
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Hell is here                                                                         
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No One Would Riot For Less

Cassadaga

 F                 Bb  
I was living in a devil town
   F                     Bb 
I didn't know it was a devil town
 F                 Bb                        F     
Oh lord it really brings me down about the devil town


 F                   Bb  
All my friends were vampires
 F                        Bb  
I didn't know they were vampires
 F                    Bb                      Bm  
It turns out I was a vampire myself in the devil town



Devil Town

D Em G
D Em G

D               Em
All eyes on the calendar
G
Another year I claim of total indifference
D                Em
To here the days pile up
G
With decisions to be made, I'm sure all of them were wrong
  D              Em
Into this song I send myself
    G
And with these drinks I plan to collapse
       D                     Em
And forget this wasted year, these wasted years
G
Devoted friends, they disappear

   A                    G              A
And I'm sorry about the phone call and needing you
                        G
Some decisions you don't make
A                   G                 A
  I guess it's like breathing and not wanting to
                                G
There are some things you can't fake 

D Em G
D Em G

D                  Em
 I guess that it's typical
   G
To cling to memories you'll never get back again
D                        Em
 And to sort through old photographs
     G
Of a summer long ago or a friend that you used to know
    D               Em
And there below his frozen face
    G
You wrote the name and that ancient date, that ancient date
        D                       Em
And you can't believe that he's really gone
     G
When all that's left is a fucking song

    A                   G              A 
And I'm sorry about the phone call and waking you
                 G
I know that it's late
    A             G                        A
But thank you for talking because I needed to
                       G
Some things just can't wait

D Em G (Yeah, some things just can't wait) 

End on G

Happy Birthday To Me

G
So, I'm just the medicine
     Am    D    Am        G
You take when you're sick
         Am    D   Am    G
You get well and that's it
          C           Am            D
I'm put back on the shelf in your mirror

And it isn't exceptional
The course of our fate
So, people love and they hate
And I guess it's just our turn to hate

(...)

I've Been Eating For You

Noise Floor 

Intro: Em, C, G, Am, G, Am, C  x4

      Em                                          C 
Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe
         G                             Am
There's people always dying trying to keep them alive
     G                      Am
His body's decomposing in containers tonight
         C
In an abandoned building where

     Em                          C
A squatter's made a mural of a Mexican girl
      G                                Am
With fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl
       G                            Am
She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
             C
Four winds blowing through her hair

                Am      D                 Am    D
But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon
          C       G                  C           G
She just can't sustain the pressure where it's placed
     Am
She caves


Interlude: Em, C, G, Am, G, Am, C

     Em                                    C
The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qu'ran is mute
          G                                Am
If you'd burn them all together you'd get close to the truth still
          G                           Am
They're pouring over sanskrit on the ivy league moons
                C
While shadows lengthen in the sun

           Em                            C
Cast on a school of meditation built to soften the times
     G                               Am
And hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds
       G                             Am
It's knocking over fences, crossing property lines
             C
Four winds, cry until it comes

              Am      D
And it's the song of man
                  Am     D
Slouching towards Bethlehem
              C       G                 C      G
A heart just can't contain all of that empty space
    Am         D
It breaks, it breaks, (it breaks)


Interlude: Em, C, Em, C, Em, C, D

              Em                         C
Well, I went back, I rent a Cadillac, a company jet
        G                        Am
Like a newly orphaned refugee, retracing my steps
        G                     Am
All the way to Cassadega to commune with the dead
                   C
They said, "You'd better look alive"

           Em                         C
And I was off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps
         G                               Am
In the black hills, the bad lands, the calloused east
    G                   Am
I buried my ballast, I made my peace
                   C
With four winds, levelling the pines

                Am      D                 Am   D
But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon
          C      G                   C     G
She just can't remain with all that outer space
     Am           D           Am        D
She breaks, she breaks, she caves, she caves.


End on: Em

Four Winds

            G                                         Bm
I keep floating down the river but the ocean never comes
 G                                                C
Since the operation I heard you're breathing just for one
        Am                                 D7
Now everything is imaginary, especially what you love
       Am                                        C                   G
You left another message said it's done, It's done
            G                                              Bm
When I hear beautiful music it's always from another time
        G                               C
Old friends I never visit, I remember what they're like
    Am                                     D7
Standing on a doorstep full of nervous butterflies
 Am                                      C                               G
Waiting to be asked to come inside  Just come inside
                Am                   D7
But I keep go-o-o-o-oing out
            Bm                  Am                     C
I can't sleep next to a stranger when I'm coming down
        B7                                        C              G
It's 8 a.m. my heart is beating too loud,  Too loud
         D7                   Am          B7                        C
Don't be-e-e-e so ama-a-a-azing or I'll miss you too much
   B7                                            C
I felt something that I had never touched


G                                                   Bm
Everything gets smaller now the further that I go
                     G                                         C
Towards the mouth and the reunion of the Known and the Unknown
      Am                                   D7
Consider yourself lucky if you think of it as home                       Am                                                                 G
You can move mountains with your misery if you don't, If you don't
    G                                               Bm
It comes to me in fragments, even those still split in two
                G                                                      C
Under the leaves of that old Lime Tree I stood examining the fruit
                 Am                                             D7
Some were ripe and some were rotten, I felt nauseous with the truth
                 Am                                   C           G
There will never be a time more opportune


               Am        D7
So I just won't be late
                     Bm                    Am       C
The window closes, shock rolls over in a tidal wave
        B7                                         C           G
And all the color drains out of the frame
       D7                  Am      B7                             C
So pleased with a daydream that now living is no good

          B7                                                C
I took off my shoes and walked into the woods

         B7                                           C             G
I felt lost and found with every step I took

Lime Tree

Capo: 3rd fret

Bright Eyes
I Must Belong Somewhere

Intro: C G Am F G
       C G Am F

            C     G    Am          F            G
Leave the bright blue door on the whitewashed wall
            C    G  Am       F      G
Leave the death ledger under city hall
           Am  G  C          F       G        C G Am F G
Leave the joyful air in that rubber ball today

           C  G   Am          F      G
Leave the lilac print on the linen sheet
            C    G    Am            F        G
Leave the birds you killed at your father's feet
         Am  G    C            F        G          C G Am F G
Let the sideways rain and the crooked street remain

           C     G    Am        F      G 
Leave the whimpering dog in his cold kennel
           C    G   Am        F    G
Leave the dead starlet on her pedestal
          Am G  C            F         G          C G Am F G
Leave the acid kids in their green fishbowls today

                C   G  Am        F          G
Just leave the sad guitar in its hardshell case
           C   G   Am           F       G
Leave the worried look on your lover's face
          Am   G   C          F    G        C G Am F G
Let the orange embers in the fireplace remain

   Am                       F
Everything it must belong somewhere
    Am                          F                     G
A train off in the distance, bicycle chained to the stairs
 Am    G       C             F
Everything it must belong somewhere
   G
I know that now, that is why I'm staying here


C G Am F G
C G Am F

           C  G    Am          F          G
Leave the ocean's roar in the turquoise shell
          C G  Am         F       G
Leave the widower in his private hell
          Am G C           F      G        C G Am F G
Leave the liberty in that broken bell today

          C G   Am          F        G
Leave the epic poem on its yellowed page
           C   G  Am         F       G 
Leave the gray macaw in its covered cage
          Am  G    C           F    G         C G Am F G
Let the traveling band on the interstate remain

  Am                          F
Everything it must belong somewhere
       Am                      F                  G
Sound stage in California, televisions in Times Square
 Am    G       C             F
Everything it must belong somewhere
   G                                     Am
I know that now that is why I'm staying here
         F                      G
Yeah, I know that now, that is why I'm staying here


C G Am F G
C G Am F

           C  G   Am           F       G
Leave the secret talks on the trundle bed
           C  G   Am            F      G
Leave the garden tools in that rusted shed
            Am   G  C          F        G       C G Am F G
Leave those bad ideas in your troubled head today

           C   G    Am          F    G
Leave the restless ghost in his old hotel
           C   G   Am           F         G
Leave the homeless man in that cardboard cell
         Am  G    C           F   G        C G Am F G
Let the painted horse on the carousel remain

  Am                         F
Everything it must belong somewhere
               Am                             F            G
Just like the gold around her finger or the silver in his hair
 Am    G       C             F
Everything it must belong somewhere
   G                                     Am
I know that now, that's why I'm staying here
   F                     G                 C
I know that now, that's why I'm staying here

    Em               Am     
In truth the forest hears each sound
       F               G
Each blade of grass as it lies down
      Em                Am
The world requires no audience
      F            Fm
No witnesses, no witnesses


C G Am F G
C G Am F

           C   G    Am           F       G
Leave the old town drunk on his wooden stool
           C  G    Am             F        G
Leave the autumn leaves in their swimming pool
           Am   G      C            F         G        C G Am F G
Leave the poor black child in his crumbling school today

          C  G  Am         F        G
Leave the novelist in his daydream tune
          C  G  Am          F       G
Leave the scientist in his Rubik's cube
         Am   G  C          F      G        C G Am F G
Let the true genius in the padded room remain

           C  G    Am           F      G
Leave the horse's hair on the slanted bow
           C    G   Am          F    G
Leave the slot machines on the riverboat
           Am  G  C           F    G       C G Am F G
Leave the cauliflower in the casserole today

           C    G     Am           F         G
Leave the hot bright trash in the shopping malls
           C    G  Am       F     G
Leave the hawks of war in their capitol
        Am  G    C            F    G       C G Am F G
Let the organ's moan in the cathedral remain

  Am                         F
Everything it must belong somewhere
                 Am                              F            G
They locked the Devil in the basement, threw God up into the air
 Am    G       C             F
Everything it must belong somewhere
         G                                     Am
And you know it's true, I wish you'd leave me here
     F                   G                   Am E F
You know it's true, why don't you leave me here?

I Must Belong Somewhere

          G
There's a voice on the phone
        G
Telling what had happened
                Bm
Some kind of confusion
               D7
More like a disaster
       G
And it wondered how you
        G
Were left unaffected
               Bm
But you had no knowledge
                  D7
No, the chemicals covered you
          G
And so a jury was formed
        G
As more liquor was poured
                Bm
No need for conviction
               D7
They're not thirsting for justice
       G
But slept with the lies
        G
I keep inside my head
                Bm
I found out I was guilty
               D7
I found out I was guilty
          G
But I won't be around
        G
For the sentencing
                Bm
Because I'm leaving
               D7
Oh, on the next airplane

             C            D           G             Bm
And though I know that my actions are impossible to justify
          C           D          G
They seem adequate to fill up my time
               C         D           Bm          Em
And if I could talk to myself like I was someone else
     C             D          G     Bm Em
Then maybe I could take your advice
              C                  D                               G
And I wouldn't act like such an asshole all the time

          G
There's a film on the wall
        G
Makes the people look small
                Bm
Who are sitting beside it
               D7
All consumed in the drama
          G
They must return to their lives
        G
Once the hero has died
                Bm
They will drive to the office
               D7
Stopping somewhere for coffee
          G
Where the folk singers, poets,
        G
and playwrights convene
                Bm
Dispensing their wisdom
               D7
Oh, dear amateur orator
          G
They will detail their pain
        G
In some standard refrain
                Bm
They will recite their sadness
               D7
Like it's some kind of contest

            F#
Well, if it is
             Bm
I think I am winning it
                 G
All beaming with confidence
     Asus2
As I make my final lap
               F#
The gold medal gleams
           Bm
So hang it around my neck
             G
Because I am deserving it
                Asus2
The champion of idiots

      C               D                G               Bm
But a kid carries his walkman on that long bus ride to Omaha
         C                       D         G
I know a girl who cries when she practices violin
              C             D             Bm        Em
Because each note sounds so pure, it just cuts into her
             C            D               G     Bm Em
And then the melody comes pouring out her eyes
       C               D                                           G
Now to me, everything else, it just sounds like a lie.

Going For The Gold

A                  D            E             A
Love is real it is not just in novels or the movies
A                    D                       E
It is fact and it is standing here right in front of you
A                         D        E            A
So if you just open your eyes, oh what a sweet discovery
A                           D                E
There is hope, and there is joy and there is acceptance

D                               E                               A		
So now let all the light that collects on your plants keep you warm, make you 
D
smile
D                             E                   A             D
And I will be there with this pen in my hand to record all the while
D                      E             C#m                   Bm		
You'll be laughing so loud that the house will shake with sound
    D                     E                      A	
And everything will be as new as the day it was found

(A-->Bm-->C#m-->D-->E)

             A         D            E              A  
Oh, love is real it is not just in long-distance commercials
A		      D				E
Or something that you thought you felt back in high school
A			 D		   E		    A
So I will turn black and white become that horoscope you're reading
A			   D	   E
It predicts that something good is on its way

    D			  E			    A  		    D
And I'll send you all the world green and blue in a box through the mail
D			    E			      A		     D
You can open it up, hold it right in your hand and be glad that it's there
D			E
And be glad that you're there

            C#m						     Bm
Now you can feel all the knots in your stomach they start to untie
    D			 E			A
And suddenly it's not so hard to say you're alright

A			D	   E		A
Oh, love is real it is not just in poetry and stories
A			D		E
It is truth and it will follow you everywhere you go from now on
A				  D		  E			A
So if you just cast all off your doubts then your lips would answer for you
A			D		   E
Oh, my darling when you smile it is like a song

I cant hear it now
A-->Bm-->C#m-->D-->E

Kathy With A K's Song

Oh Holy Fools - The Music Of Son, Ambulance And Bright Eyes

   D         A              D
if you walk away i'll walk away
      D              A             D
first tell me which road you will take
  B             A              D              B
i don't want to risk our paths crossing some day
       D                   A             D
so you walk that way, i'll walk this way


same progession for all verses...



chord before chorus is a D7
CHORUS:
B           A      D     D
  i found a liquid cure
B          A        D      D
  for my landlocked blues
        B     A
it will pass away
     D        B
like a slow parade
     D
it's leaving
      A               D
but i don't know how soon

Landlocked Blues

Intro
G A 

D
Helping the kids out of their coats
                                      G         D
But wait the babies haven't been born   (ohh oh ooo-oo)
D
Unpacking the bags and setting up
                                    G          D
And planting lilacs and buttercups     (ohh oh ooo-oo)


    Em (hold chord)
But in the meantime I've got it hard
                                     D
Second floor living without a yard
   Em
It may be years until the day
                                      D
My dreams will match up with my pay


Em  F#m Bm
Ooo-ooo-oold dirt road
Em F#m Bm
Hi-igh Knee deep snow
Em           F#m  Bm
Watching the fire as we grow old
Em  F#m  G   A
Ohh-ohhh-ooo-ooo

   D        G                D


   D        G


D
I got a man to stick it out
                                     G         D
And make a home from a rented house    (ohh oh ooo-oo)
D
And we'll collect the moments one by one
				      G	         D
I guess that's how the future's done     (ohh oh ooo-oo)


Em (hold chord)
How many acres how much light
				       D
Tucked in the woods and out of sight
  Em
I Wave to the neighbours and tip my cap
				     D
On a little road barely on the map

**Strum the D 4 hard, short times now


Em  F#m Bm
Ooo-ooo-oold dirt road
Em F#m Bm
Hi-igh Knee deep snow
Em           F#m  Bm
Watching the fire as we grow old
Em  F#m Bm
Ahh-ahh-ooo-oww
Em  F#m G  A
Ooo-ooo-oold

   D.....


Mushaboom

Original tuning : 2.0 step up


VERSE

A               E
You Were born inside of a rain drop
    D                             A
And I watched you falling to your death
A               E
Well the sun, she could not save you
  D                               A         
She'd fallen down too, now the streets are wet.

And so on.

CHORUS
F#           E
So don't stay mad
F#              E
Just let some time pass
C#m                F#           B       E
And in the morning you'll wake feeling new

Repeat this until
D
But if you take that train underwater then we could talk it through

Train Underwater

Motion Sickness: Live Recordings

G		D
John A Hobson was a good man
Am		C
he used to loan me books and mic stands
G		D
he even got me a subscription 
Am		C
to the Socialist Review
G		D
listening to records in his basement
Am		C
old folk songs about the government
G		D
"it's love of money, not the market," 
Am		C
he said, "these fuckers push on you.
G		D
and freedom yells, it dont cry.
G		D
whatever sells will decide.
G		D
but there is no hell when you die.
	Am
so dont look so worried."
G		D
he got a night life, lost his day job
Am		C
pushing paper, swinging pendulums
G		D
anything to serve a function 
Am		C
or to occupy some time
G		D
you have got to earn this living somehow
Am		C
you are good as dead without a bank account
G		D
but it is funny how alive he felt down 
Am		C
in that unemployment line
G		D
with all the trash at his feet
G		D
the pools of piss in the street
G		D
all of that filthy empathy 
	Am
for the way we're feeling

G-D-Am-C (x2)

G		D
the billboards shade, the flags they wave
Am		C
the anthem was playing loud
G		D
the baseball game was letting out
Am		C
then all at once he saw the dust
G		D
and heard every tiny sound
Am		C
got in his truck and turned around
G		D
drove out through the crowd and the cops
Am		C
drove out past that center mall
G		D
drove out past that sickening sprawl
Am		C
out past that fenced in gold
G		D
and maybe he lost control 
G		D
fucking with the radio
G		D
but i bet the stars seemed so close 
	Am
at the end

Light Pollution

Digital Ash in a Digital Urn

How to stum : down, up, down, up, down, up, down.. etc

Intro - F  Am  x6

F                                 Am
in the morning when you throw up water
                                   C
and your skin turns a pale pale yellow
      F                        Em
well everyday you lose more color
        C                  Dm          F
do you think that someone paints your mirror?


        C                  Dm            F
do you think that someone paints your mirror?


and you think that things sound different
at the time when you speak
well there are visions much clearer
than these blurs that you see


     F         F/G  C
and like neely o'hara
                  Am
you swallow your sleep
     C                         Am
and wake up in the morning to find out
C       Am    C      Am    C      
            C       F
you are not, you are not, you are not  who, you used to be


you don't recognize the behavior
or the spelling of your name
and the shape that is in the mirror
you swear it's not , "YOU WOULD SWEAR IT'S NOT THE SAME!"?... the same

     F         F/G  C
and like neely o'hara
                  Am
you swallow your sleep
         F             F/G C
and you really can't remember
         C           Am
but you know you are not
 C            Am
think you are not
C          Am
no you are not

          C      F
who, you used to be  (4x)

Neely Ohara

C
Lately I've been wishing I had one desire,
Em
Something that would make me never want another,
Am
Something that would make it so that nothing matters,
Dsus
All would be clearer then

C
But I guess I'll have to settle for a few brief moments,
Em
And watch it all dissolve into a single second,
Am
And try to write it down into a perfect sonnet,
Dsus
Or one foolish line

                        F                       G
'Cause that's all that you'll get,
                 Dsus
So you'll have to accept,
                F
You are here ,
                       G
Then you're gone

C
I believe that lovers should be tied together,
Em
Thrown into the ocean in the worst of weather,
Am
Left there to drown,
                                                   Dsus
Left there to drown in their innocence

       C
But as for me I'm coming to the final chapter,
        Em
I've read all of the pages and there's still no answer,
         Am
The only words before I know will soon come after,
          Dsus
It?s the only way it can be.

          F                   G
So I stand in the sun,
             Am                      Dsus
And I breathe with my lungs,
                    F                       G                   Am
Trying to spare me the weight of the truth

Then you just do the same thing!

A Perfect Sonnet

Every Day And Every Night

G

G                          C
Come on in my weary friend
Am                                G
The welcome here is endless
G                                           C
These fears of yours, like painted whores
          Am                                  D
They will not stay the night
  C               D           C                           D
If all your life you've done what's right
           C                 Am         
Don't say you felt
              G
Obliged

G                                           C
Come along, here's your timid tongue
        Am                      G
Too shy to tell your stories
G                                C
This pain in you so far removed
           Am                                  D
From anything you've known
       C                D        C                    D    
So I won't condone another moan
                   C               Am
Not when everything
          G
Is fine

F

                      C                           G         F
So when in drought learn to dance
                        C                       G         C 
And pray the dead would return
                                                G
And dream smoke without fire
        F                          C                             G
Just come see me again when it burns

G C Am G
G C Am D
C D C D
C Am G

            C          
Somewhere along the way
           G
Well, I was lead astray
           Am 
By a wolf in Noah's clothing
D
It was a brilliant disguise
          Am                          Bm
And I forgot that life existed
                          C                                   D
I thought it was just some kind of game
                                       C                         Bm
And that's what brings me to your doorstep
               Am                                    Am
Though I don't know why I came
           G
Today

F

                  C                      G     F
Standing still in the dust
             C                      G   C
Giving up on the rain
                                            G        F
And as for smoke without fire
                            C                    G
I've already laid in the flame

F G F G
C G

F                                             G
I've already laid in the flame
F                                              G
Brother, be afraid of the flames
                           F              G
Well I ain't afraid of the flames

Smoke Without Fire

Verse:
  
G                                         Em 
It's not the road we used to know,
Em
they tore some buildings down,
D                              G 
traffics like a pack of dogs,

G                                          Em
there's fewer trees, windowsleeves,
Em
concrete on the lawn,
            D                                    G
there's people here but you are gone.

Pre:
            Em                                   Bm
And i'm fine still swimmin through time,
Am              D                               G
afraid some days i've reached the shore,
 Em                                                  Bm
make yourself free, man said that to me,
Am                    D                  G
now my heart is like an open door.


Chorus:
                    Am      D           G
and the road finally gave me back,
        Em     E            Am
but i dont think i'll unpack,
                                   D                   G
cause i'm not sure if i'd live here anymore.


Verse:
it's not my way that makes me faint
but the sugar in my blood
but the ways these strangers so close (cold?)
they say my name, the guessing game,
well is that really you,
well i dont think it ever was.

Pre:
in the spring, when the worlds turnin green,
i only think about the fall,
and the frets on the board,
a progression of chords,
oh how i want this to resolve,

Chorus:
and the road finally gave me back,
but i don't think i'll unpack,
'cause i'm not sure if i live here anymore.
now the road finally gave me back,
but i don't think i'll unpack,
'cause i'm not sure if i live here no i
i'm not sure if i live here anymore
i'm not sure if i live here anymore

Tourist Trap

			Em
Does he kiss your eyelids in the morning when you start to raise your head?
 		Bmaj
And does he sing to you incessantly from the space between your bed and wall?
 		Em
Does he walk around all day at school with his feet inside your shoes?
 		Bmaj
Looking down every few steps to pretend he walks with you.
		Em
Oh does he know that place below your neck that is your favorite to be touched,
 		Bmaj
and does he cry through broken sentences that I love you far too much?

D7			Bb	A		D
	Does he lay awake listen-ing to your breath?
D7		Bb		A		D
	Worried you smoke too many cigar-ettes.
 		E		F#
Is he coughing now, on a bathroom floor?
			E		F#
For every speck of tile there's a thousand more,
			E
you won't ever see.
(one strum)(F#) 	(E)	D	E
     but must hold inside yourself eternally.
Em  Bmaj  Em  Bmaj

				Em
Well I drug your ghost across the country and we plotted out my death.
			Bmaj
In every city, memories would whisper, Here is where you rest.
			Em
I was de-termined in Chicago but I dug my teeth into my knees,
		Bmaj
and I settled for a telephone and sang into your machine.
Em						Bmaj
 	You are my sunshine, my only sun-shine.
Em						Bmaj
 	You are my sunshine, my only sun-shine.

D7			Bb	A		D
D7			Bb	A		D
E		F#		(E)

		Em
And I kissed a girl with a broken jaw that her father gave to her.
				Bmaj
She had eyes bright enough to burn me. They reminded me of yours.
			Em
And In a story told she was a little girl in a red-rouge, sun-bruised field
				Bmaj
and there were rows of ripe tomatoes where a secret was concealed.
 		 Em					Bmaj
And it rose like thunder, clapped under our hands.
		  Em					Bmaj
And it stretched for centuries to a diary entries end
				Em			Bmaj
where I wrote,      You make me happy (WHAT!?) oh when skies are gray.
 Em						Bmaj
	You make me happy oh when skies are gray, and gray, and gray.

			D7	Bb	A	D
Well the clock's heart it hangs inside its open chest
	D7	Bb	A	D
with hands stretched towards the calendar hanging it-self
	E	F#
but I will not weep for those dying days.
	E	F#
For all the ones who've left there's a few that stayed.
	E
And they found me here
	(F#)	E	D	E
and pulled me from the grass where I was laid.

Em   Bmaj   Em   Bmaj

The Calendar Hung Itself

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Something Vague

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Sunrise Sunset

Fevers And Mirrors

Cm
The fragile keep secrets gathered in pockets
              G
And they will sell them for nothing, a cheap watch or locket
     Em                      Cm
That kind of gold washes off

        Cm
And the sad act like lepers, they stick to the shadows
             G
They long to ring bells of warning to tell of their coming
            Em                        Cm
So that the pure can shut their doors

        Cm
And the angry are animals, senseless and savage
     G
They act without order in logical lapses
     Em                            Cm
They stain their mouths with blood

   Fm                                Cm
So take my hand, this barren land is alive tonight
        Fm                               Cm
Oh, the corn has grown stalks that form a wall to hide
         Fm                                    Cm
The wind carries sounds that I can't see from beyond that line
         B      Am        G
Then the stalks begin to sway
    C            B Am G
Oh, stay with me, Arienette
                      Cm
Until the wolves are away
    A G  Cm  A G
YUP

         Cm                      
Well the wicked are vultures, they bake in the canyons
     G
They circle in sunlight and wait for their victims
     Em                     Cm
To collapse and call to them

        Cm
And the desperate are water, they'll run down forever
        G                                                
As they soak into silence and end up together
     Em                                  Cm
In a dark and distant, dark and distant place

         Fm                             Cm
So don't leave me here with only mirrors watching me
     Fm                             Cm
This house, it holds nothing but the memories
        Fm                        Cm
And the moon, it leaves silver but never sleep
             B      Am        G     
And then the silver turns to gray
   C            B Am G
So stay with me, Arienette
                     Cm
Until the wolves are away

Arienette

C G Dm G
C G Am Am G G

     C                      G
Tomorrow when I wake up I'm finding my brother
    Dm                      G
And making him take me back down to the water
     C                           G
That lake where we sailed and we laughed with our father
  Am                     Am                    G
I will not desert him, I will not desert him

          Dm        G          C         Am
No matter how I may wish for a coffin so clean
         Dm         G               C           Am
Or these trees to undress all their leaves onto me
         Dm          G             C         Am
I put my face in the dirt and then finally I see
    Am                 G       C
The sky that has been avoiding me

  C                              G
I started this letter, I'm gonna send it to Ruba
           Dm                         G
It will be blessed by her eyes on the gulf coast of Florida
         C                        G
With her feet in the sand and one hand on her swimsuit
         Dm                      G
She will recite the prayer of my pen

        C                     G
Saying, time take us forward, relief from this longing
         Dm                    G
They can land that plane on my heart. I don't care
     C                     G
Just give me November, the warmth of a whisper
       Am                      G
In the freezing darkness of my room

              Dm           G          C          Am
But no matter what I would do in an attempt to replace
          Dm           G              C          Am
All these pills that I take trying to balance my brain
         Dm      G              C           Am
Seen the curious girl with that look on her face
     Dm                           G           C
So surprised she stares out from her display case

When The Curious Girl Realizes She Is Under Glass

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A Spindle, A Darkness, A Fever And A Necklace

Fevers and Mirrors

Verse:
           Am               F#m                     
Took the fireworks and the vanity
      F                       C
The circuit board and the city streets
F                       C
Shooting stars, swaying palm tree
G                           Am
Laid it at the Arbiters feet
        Am                                  F#m
If I could change my mind, change the paradigm
   F                  C
Prepare myself for another life
    F                      C
Forgive myself for the many times
     G                                           Am
I was cruel to something helpless and weak

Chorus:
     F                      G
But here it come, that heavy love
     C                           Am
I’m never gonna move it alone
F                     G
Here it come, that heavy love
C                      Am
Tag it on a tenement wall
F                      G
Here it come that heavy love
E7/Ab                          Am
Someone gotta share in the load
F                     G
Oh here it come that heavy love
    F            G               C...
I’m never gonna move it alone

Interlude
...C5-G5-F5-E5 (listen to song for rhythm)

Am C F C F Am G (play chords in the normal pattern)

Verse:
I was dressed in white
Touched by something pure
death obsessed like a teenager
Sold my tortured youth, pissed in vinegar
I’m still angry with no reason to be
At the architect who imagined this
For the everyman blessed Sisyphus
Slipping steadily into madness
Now that’s the only place to be free

Chorus:
But here it come, that heavy love
You’re never gonna move it alone
Here it come, that heavy love
Tattooed on a criminals arm
Here it come that heavy love
Someone gotta share in the load
Oh here it come that heavy love
You’re never gonna move it alone

Instrumental 
C5-G5-F5-E5 (listen to song for rhythm)

Am C F C F Am G (play chords in the normal pattern)

    Am     Bbm7     C
No I don’t want to play
         F       C            F       G
It’s a shell game, it’s a shell game.

Bridge/Verse:
   Am                   F#m  
Distorted sounds on oscilloscopes
   F                        C
Distorted facts I could never cope
    F                   C
My private life is an inside joke.
  G                       Am
No one will explain it to me
          Am                   F#m 
Will it be everything that we ever need
 F                C
Everyone on the count of three,
 F                C
Everyone on the count of three
     G
All together now.

Chorus:
But here it come, that heavy love
We’re never gonna move it alone
Here it come, that heavy love
Playing as the cylinder rolls
Here it come that heavy love
I only wanna share in the load
Oh here it come that heavy love
I’m never gonna move it alone

C5-G5-F5-E5
C5-G5-F5-E5

Shell Games

The People's Key

D		     G			  D		A
I woke up with this song in my head this morning.
I woke up with this song in my head this morning.
	D		   G			D	     D
I was dreaming about your record collection and all of our scratched affection.
   D		     G			  D		A
I woke up with this song in my head this morning.

	D	G	D	A
With no singing. 
With no swinging too.
There is no dancing. 
There is no missing you.

 
I woke up and put your record on this morning.
I woke up and put your record on this morning. 
So when the oven is hot I'm going to melt the plastic into an ashtray or a candy basket. 
I woke up and put your record on this morning.

With no singing. 
With no swinging too. 
There is no dancing. 
There is no missing you.

 D	     G		   D             G
When you go, will you glow on and on and on and on?
When you go, will you glow on and on and on and on?
On and on and on and on,   On and on and on and on?
A	     G		   A		 G
On and on and on and on,   On and on and on and on?


I woke up with this song in my head this morning.
I woke up with this song in my head this morning.
It made my headache. It was that great but now it's gone and life is wnderful.
You made my head ache. You were that great but now you're gone and life is wonderful.

There is no singing. There is no swinging too.
There is no dancing. There is no missing you.
There is no screaming. There is no listening too.
There is no scheming. There is no missing you.

I Woke Up With This Song In My Head This Morning

LA RE
Jo et duré a casa si fa mal temps
MI FA#m
Jo t’empararé si un cas tens por
SIm MI
Jo te cuidaré si estàs malalta
RE LA
De tot cor, de tot cor
RE REm LA
De tot cor

MI RE DO#m-SIm-LA

FA#m DO#m
Estic a punt d’anar-me’n
RE LA RE
Mes abans de partir et diré
REm LA
Que et duc dins es pensament

FA#m DO#m
No deix de recordar-te
RE LA RE
I alen els teus alens tot calents
REm SIm MI
De lluny i de prop me tens


Jo et duré...

FA#m DO#m
I a dalt de s’escenari
RE LA RE
Quan estic concentrat cantant
REm MI
Jo sempre te tenc present

FA#m DO#m
Perquè m’ets necessari
RE LA
Com s’aire que respir
RE REm SIm MI
Necessit estar amb tu en tot moment


Jo et duré... ( bis )

De tot cor

[intro]
F Am Dm Am A# Dm Gm C

[Verse 1]
             F 
Baby really hurt me
                Am 
crying in the taxi
                Dm
He dont wanna know me
                         Am                     A#     Dm
says you make the big mistake of dancing in my store 
Gm                  C
   Says it was poison
                 F
So I guess I go home 
          Am                     Dm
into the arms of the girl that I love
                Am 
the only love I havent screwed up
A#                  Dm
   She's so hard to please
             Gm      C  
but shes a forest fire
        F               
I do my best to meet her demands
Am
play it romance
         Dm
we slow dance in the living room
    Am                      A#
but all that a stranger would see
        Dm           Gm               C     
is one girl swaying alone stroking her cheek

[Chorus]

      F         Am            Dm 
They say, "you're a little much for me
         Am     A# 
You're a liability
          Dm         Gm    C
You're a little much for me"
               F              Am 
So they pull back make other plans
       Dm 
I understand
     Am     A# 
I'm a liability
        Dm         Gm    
Get you wild, make you leave
       C            Dm            F    A#       
I'm a little much for eh oh-na-na-na everyone

[Verse 2]
            F 
The truth is, I am toy
                Dm
that people enjoy
                Am               A#
till all of the tricks dont work anymore
Dm              Gm       C
And then they are bored of me
             
                    F
I know that its exciting
                     Am
running through the night but
              Dm                Am
every perfect summer's eating me alive
            A#    Dm
unitl youre gone
Gm          C
Better on my own

[Chorus]

      F         Am            Dm 
They say, "you're a little much for me
         Am     A# 
You're a liability
          Dm         Gm    C
You're a little much for me"
               F              Am 
So they pull back make other plans
       Dm 
I understand
     Am     A# 
I'm a liability
        Dm         Gm    
Get you wild, make you leave
       C            Dm            F    A#       
I'm a little much for eh oh-na-na-na everyone

[Outro]
             Dm           F           A#
They're gonna watch me disappear into the sun
                 Dm        F           A#
You're all gonna watch me disappear into the sun

Liability

A                                     E 
Roll into your town and I'm walking around
                                                Fm                        
Got some extra time think I'll throw some money down
                                                     D
And you follow me around, and you're asking for the time

Your asking what I found 
                         A
think I'm gonna rob you blind

maybe it's the tattoo on my arm
        E
that I drew while I was bored waiting tables in new york
Fm                                            D
 a  heart and two flowers intertwined with a vine

Up Here

F Am Dm C

    F              Am            Bb          C
The skirts go up, before the wall  among the madding crowds, 
    
     F                      Am                    Dm     C
They ruin, Like the rest of ruin, the rest of us ruin
          F                      Am           Bb           C
You are a living doll riding the circle tracks  behind the walls of clocks, 
        F                      Am                   Dm     C
In your ruin, Like the rest of ruin, the rest of us ruin     

 Bb                        F         C
Traffic will slow for the crash years
 Bb                             F         C      Dm     C
There's no other show like it 'round here, as a ru-u-ule
 Bb                        F            C
Windows will roll for the crash years 
        Bb                       F         C      Dm    C
There's no other show like it 'round here, as a ru-u-ule

F Ab F Ab
# (Whistlng part)

F Am Dm C

        F                     Am               Bb            C     
Now the candle's end, you are a light turned low  and like the rest of us,
                 F            Am               Dm     C
You've got those old, eternity blues, eternity blues
      F                              Am         Bb                C
Your fingers raised, you're looking for the word, what you want is accident
            F                 Am                 Dm    C
And not the drag, spectacular view, what you can lose

 Bb                         F         C
Traffic will slow for the crash years
 Bb                            F         C      Dm     C
There's no other show like it 'round here, as a ruuuule
 Bb                         F         C
Windows will close in the crash years 

Bb                          F        C      Dm     C
    Honey child, you're not safe here, as a ru-u-ule

F Ab F Ab
# (whistling part)

Bb 

F Am Dm C

 Bb                        F         C
Traffic will slow for the crash years
 Bb                             F         C      Dm     C
There's no other show like it 'round here, as a ru-u-ule
 Bb                        F            C
Windows will roll for the crash years 
        Bb                       F         C      Dm    C
There's no other show like it 'round here, as a ru-u-ule

F Ab F Ab
# (Whistling part)

        F                   Am            Dm                  C
And the ruins the wild, the ruins the wild, tonight will be an open mic.

# (Repeat six times and end on an F)

Crash Years

INTRO:

A |---------------------|
E |--7--7--7----------- -|
C |---------------------|
G |---------------------|

VERSE 1:   

C#m          E       B      A                     C#m   E    B   A 
I’m going away to be alone I’m coming back with answers
C#m           E            B    A            C#m   E   B   A
Don’t try to call my telephone it’s disconnected
C#m           E          B       A               C#m   E   B   A
And I don’t know where I’m going but can you guide me
C#m              E        B        A              C#m   E   B   A
But if I find love where I’m going will it survive me


PRE-CHORUS 1:

C#m            B   A                         C#m         A   B
‘Cause in your own space you’re disconnected and in your own mind you’re not affected
C#m         B   A                           C#m         A   B
And in your own time you’re still attracted but in your own life


CHORUS:

A                                 C#m            B
This heart attack I’ve gotta get away not coming back
A                                 C#m                     B
I want some downtime so call me when you can and I’ll be fine


VERSE 2: [same chords as VERSE1]
I’ve found the time to be alone I don’t know what you’re asking
I’m waiting by the telephone and you’re still barking
My heart stops it isn’t… going could you revive me
I think I’m lost without knowing so come and find me


PRE-CHORUS 2:  [same chords as PRE-CHORUS1]
‘Cause in the same space we’re disconnected and in your own mind you’re not attracted
But in your own life over reacted and in your own time


{CHORUS x2}


Sometimes if we don’t go sometimes you don’t know
You don’t go I don’t go I don’t go you don’t go

C#5  B5  A5                      C#5  A5  B5
            I’ve got your back              but you don’t got mine
C#5  E5  A5                    C#5  A5  B5
            This heart attack              then I’m feeling fine


CHORUS x2

C#m          E       B    A 
I’m going away to be alone
C#m          E       B    A 
I'm going away to be alone ...............

This Heart Attack

Intro: C D C D (x2)


C D
Si es que no puedes hablar
C D
no te atrevas a volver
C D
si te quieres ocultar
C D
tal vez te podria ver
Em D C G C
y el amor que no sabe a quien y que
G C
hablará si tu verdad
Em F
te abrazara otra vez

Em C
Habla si puedes
G C
grita que sientes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G C
y te hace feliz

C D


C D
Si no puedes escuchar
C D
aunque insistas hablaré
C D
si lo quieres mírame
C D
y tus ojos hablaran tal vez
Em D C G C
sentiras el amor e iras tras el
G C
hablaras si tu verdad
Em F
te abrazará otra vez

Em C
Habla si puedes
G C
grita que sientes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G D
y te hace feliz
Em C
habla si puedes
G C
grita si temes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G D
y te hace feliz


Em G C G
.(CUERDAS)... abrazaméeeeeeeee..
C Em F
quiero despertarme y entender

Em C
habla si puedes
G C
grita si temes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G D
y que haces aquì
Em C
habla si puedes
G C
grita que sientes
Em C
dime a quien quieres
G C
y te hace feliz
G C
y te hace feliz

C D
(fin)

Habla si puedes

[Verse 1]
 G                              D
You like New York City in the daytime
 Bm                   A
I like New York City in the nighttime
 G                          D
You say you like sleeping with the air off
Bm                  A
I don't, I need it on
G                  D
You like the light coming through the windows
 Bm                      A
I sleep late, so I just keep 'em all closed
G                  D
You ignore the music on the radio
Bm                 A
I don't, I sing-a-long


[Pre-Chorus]
G               D        Bm             A
I don't ask for you to change, baby no no no
    G              D          Bm    A
And you don't ask for me to change


[Chorus]
N.C.                     D
Tell me how we're not alike
       Bm               A
But we work so well and we don't even know why
G              D
Funny how the stars crossed right
       Bm                   A
'Cause we work so well and we don't even know why
 G              D
You can call it fire and ice
    Bm                  A
But we work so well and we don't even know why
G              D
We don't even know why, no no
Bm                          A
We don't even know why, no no no


[Post-Chorus]
N.C.
No no no no
D
We like it in the daytime
Bm                 A
We like it in the end of time
N.C.
No no no no
D
We like it in the daytime
Bm                 A
We like it in the end of time


[Verse 2]
G                        D
Cold outside and you're just in a T-shirt
Bm                   A
I have cold blood even in a sweater
G                         D
You start your night sippin' by the Kilo
Bm                   A
I don't, I know you know


[Pre-Chorus]
G               D        Bm             A
I don't ask for you to change, baby no no no
    G              D          Bm    A
And you don't ask for me to change



[Chorus]
N.C.                     D
Tell me how we're not alike
       Bm               A
But we work so well and we don't even know why
G              D
Funny how the stars crossed right
       Bm                   A
'Cause we work so well and we don't even know why
 G              D
You can call it fire and ice
    Bm                  A
But we work so well and we don't even know why
G              D
We don't even know why, no no
Bm                          A
We don't even know why, no no no


[Post-Chorus]
N.C.
No no no no
D
We like it in the daytime (we don't even know)
Bm                 A
We like it in the end of time (we don't even know)
N.C.
No no no no
D
We like it in the daytime
Bm                   A
(We don't even know, know, know, know, know)




[Bridge]
G                          D
Somehow we end up on the same side
Bm                          A
And you wouldn't think that we'd be alright
G                      D            Bm             A
Even our eyes are different colors, but we see fine
G                         D
Somehow we end up on the same side (up on the same side)
Bm                            A
And you wouldn't think that we'd be alright

(Think that we'd be alright)

G                      D            Bm             A
Even our eyes are different colors, but we see fine


[Chorus]

 N.C.                     D
(Oh)Tell me how we're not alike
       Bm               A
But we work so well and we don't even know why

('Cause we work so well and we don't even know why, why)
G              D
Funny how the stars crossed right
       Bm                  A
'Cause we work so well and we don't even know why

(But we don't even know why)
G                D
You can call it fire and ice
    Bm                  A
But we work so well and we don't even know why

('Cause we work so well and we don't even know why, why)

G              D
We don't even know why, no no
Bm                          A
We don't even know why, no no no


[Post-Chorus]

N.C.
No no no no
D
We like it in the daytime (we don't even know)
Bm                 A
We like it in the end of time (we don't even know)
N.C.
No no no no
D
We like it in the daytime
Bm             A
We like it in the nighttime

Intro:

Bb - F - A

F                 C
I've been feeling lonesome
F                            C
I'm down, don't know what to do
D
I let you lie to me
F
plant seeds inside
            E
to see them grow
                      F
only to leave them to die

  C
I learned my lesson
       E
I won't be forgetting
       F
I won't give my heart out
    A
with-out suspecting

Bb  F
why cry
Dm G
why cry
Bb  F
why cry
    A
for you

F                  C
I've been lost and finding
F                           C
out that I've been such a fool
D           
you thought you'd stick around
F
until the day you found
    E                    F
someone to make me obsolete

  C
I learned my lesson
       E
I won't be forgetting
       F
I won't give my heart out
    A
with-out suspecting

Bb  F
why cry
Dm G
why cry
Bb  F
why cry
Dm F
why cry
    Bb
for you... 


Guitar Solo:

Bb - F - A (2x)

  C     
I learned my lesson
       E
I won't be forgetting
       F
I won't give my heart out
    A
with-out suspecting

Bb  F
why cry
Dm G
why cry
Bb  F
why cry
Dm G
why cry
Bb  F
why cry
Dm G
why cry
Bb  F
why cry
Dm G
why cry
    A
for you

Why Cry

(Chorus)
G
You xxxx X xxx'x smile xxxx xxx
Em
X can't xxxxx xxxxxxx xxx
Am7
I xxx'x xxxxx xxx X xxx'x sing
D7
I'm xxxxxxx xx xxxx xx xx xxxxxxxx
(1st Verse)
G
You xxx X xxxx xxx xxxx xxx'xx sad
Em
X feel xxxx xxxx xxx'xx glad
Am7
If xxx xxxx xxxx xxxx X'x xxxxx through
D7                              G Em G Em
X just xxx'x xxxxx without xxx
(2nd verse)
G
You xxxx along xxxx xxxx x song
Em
Xxx brightened xx xxx
Am7
Whod've xxxxxxxx xxxx xxx xxxx xxxx xx x dream
                  D7
Xxx xx xxx xxxxx light xxxxx xxxx
(Chorus)
         G 
Xxx now xxx xxx X xxx'x smile xxxx xxx
Em
X can't xxxxx xxxxxxx xxx
Am7
I xxx'x xxxxx xxx X xxx'x sing
D7                          Eb
I'm xxxxxxx xx xxxx xx xx anything
(3rd Verse)
Ab
You xxx X xxxx xxx xxxx xxx'xx sad
   Fm
X feel xxxx xxxx xxx'xx glad
Bbm
If xxx xxxx xxxx xxxx X'x xxxxx through
Ebm
X just xxx'x xxxxx
Ebm                                 Ab               C#
Now xxxx xxxxxx xxx happiness xxxxx so xxxx xxxx xx find
C#m                                         Eb     E
Well, X'x xxxxxxx xx xxxx xxxxxxx xxxx xxxx behind me
A
And xxx xxx X xxx'x smile xxxxxxx xxx
F#m
X can't xxxxx xxxxxxx xxx
Bm
X xxx'x laugh xxx X xxx'x sing
E
X'x finding xx xxxx xx xx xxxxxxxx
Bb
You xxx X xxxx xxxx xxxx xxx'xx glad
Gm
X feel xxx xxxx xxx'xx sad
Cm
If xxx xxxx knew xxxx X'x xxxxx through
F
X just xxx'x smile xxxxxxx xxx

Can't Smile Without You

Intro  D     Bm7   G     A     x2


Verse 1
    D                              Bm7
We never spoke a word, but every thought she had 
                         G     A Asus A
I heard from across the room 
             D                               Bm7
If we were standin' face to face I couldn't find the words 
               G               A Asus A
To say give me one more move 
        G              A             G                   A
I don't even know her name, I guess foolish pride's to blame


Chorus 
          D                        D7
Now, I'm fallin' in love as she's walkin' away
        Bm7                 F#              G                    A
And my heart won't tell my mind to tell my mouth what it should say
 D                                  D7
May have lost this battle, live to fight another day
        Bm7 A   G                              Gm
Now I'm fallin' in love as she's walkin' away


Interlude   D     Bm7   G     A     x2


Verse 2
          D                           Bm7
Wise man next to me did say 'bout the one that got away
        G                    A
Son, I missed my chance 
           D                            Bm7
Don't you let regret take place of the dreams you have to chase
     G               A
Ask her to dance, go on, son
           G                 A              G                  A
You might fall down on your face, roll the dice and have some faith


Chorus
          D                        D7
Don't be fallin' in love as she's walkin' away
           Bm7                   F#                G                    A
When your heart won't tell your mind to tell your mouth what it should say
 D                                  D7
May have lost this battle, live to fight another day
         Bm7 A   G                               Gm
Don't be fallin' in love as she's walkin' away 


Solo   D    Bm7  Bm  F#  G   A  D    D7    Bm  F# |A   D 


           G                 A              G                  A
You might fall down on your face, roll the dice and have some faith
 
          D                        D7
Don't be fallin' in love as she's walkin' away
           Bm7                   F#                G                    A
When your heart won't tell your mind to tell your mouth what it should say
 D                                  D7
May have lost this battle, live to fight another day
         Bm7 A    Bm7 A       Bm7 A       G                      G   
Don't be fallin', fallin' in, fallin' in love as she's walkin' away


Outro  (G)   Gm  Bm7  E G  Gm  D

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