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Also included here are the chords and lyrics to Lights in the Quarry 
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Strange Homes
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I. the house you were raised in
The house you were raised in
verse pattern is like this:
Ggo away from my western windoEmwG  
Emit's not tGhe writing on the wall
part 2
Emit's still the ocean even if it's frozeDn
Gwhy not
ending is 
Em-D-C 
go away from my western window it's not the writing on the wall, we built the house that you were raised and 
we're tearing it down this fall, your fathers face is turning gray and the ashes are still cooling off, 
but thats okay i also live in a dream and im hoping to see you there. (sofia) 
we spend our whole lives just trying to build up our towers to heaven, from what i have learned 
its hard to discern which way is the right direction, 
the higher you build the higher it will be to escape from, 
but me i quite toiling a long time ago continue at your own discretion. 
it's still the ocean even if it's frozen 
why not. we're alive and the water's fine and my mind's a beehive why not. 
so far out west, i don't need to be, found a strange place where you used to sleep, 
it's been raining i never got dry 
(**these three lines one by one and then repeated over each other until the end**) 
found a strange home
II. god's work
intro
Am
verse
Am-C-Bm
part 2 (pseudo bossa nova feel part) "a boy said please don't panic"
Am-G
part 3 "and your father died last spring"
C-G-F
part 4 "i was not afraid of being alone"
C-G-Am-F
(return to verse)
part 5 "dark as the ocean"
Am-C-Bm
"gave up years ago"
Am
God's Work (niko's part) in the valley where we found a body lost it's eyes were loud 
and with the withering loose order my face in electric cords displayed so proudly with a flag 
but did they know oh did they know
this is god's work we do my metal angel rusted through at the well where we said we grew
i did not pray for a lying daughter down beneath the tv station static wave we knew where we came from
God's Work (andre's part) there was a moment months ago when i'd forgotten all the lies that my teachers forgot 
they were bleeding. And nobody knows what i'm saying they think that we're all joking 
but they forget that love's not a novelty. seems like we all remember boots on in a dark december, 
and that fire is all too real.
a boy said please don't panic while a girl slept in an abandoned attic 
and if we're chaotic then there are lives that are fucking starving.
and your father died last spring, and these vulgar symbols don't say anything. 
and if we are all then that's left, then there's no need for this. my love i have a secret--
we are all that's left. i was no afraid of us being alone, i was just afraid of us being all we know.
2,3,4.
there was a moment days ago when a friend told me they were dying. but growing up is giving up, 
and death is adulthood. loved a healthy hatred reserved solely for The Species; 
we are a sole ingredient that gave up years ago.
we were dark as the ocean...
this is god's work we do... we gave up years ago.
III. dissident
Capo 3
D-E
(on the 8th and tenth fret of the a-string during this song and that seemed to work )
i was the humpback camel
you were the needles eye
how did i get inside
a miracle of modern science
contemporary progress
and they say that im just a caveman
painting a wall 
im seeing only shadows and thinking
they are they're all mine
a train whistles dissonant
and im some no count dissident
just getting lost in the mist
of a time when we were both missing it.
and we screamed up the punks
and imagined our sunset
would rise inside our eyes
and always set behind us
i've had days in which my face dont fit
and nights defined by amphetamines
and oh my god im a hypocrite
with tattoos and two skinny wrists
im almost twenty but im still
just a little kid 
who sometimes tends to throw stupid fits
but i wont grow up
i wont grow up 
no, no not even a little bit.
We'll all keep on whistlin
we'll all keep on whistlin
and maybe you'll keep
whistlin too yeah
we'll all keep on whistlin' (repeat forever and scream)
IV. these bones on loan
verses/middle section
D-A-G
"these aren't my bones..."
Bm-G-D-G
wishing that i was a masochist that i was a sadomasochist not taking chances, 
holding my head above water dosen't mean i'm in love. she was a writer and i was a fighter, 
i guess that we couldn't own up to either- i was a coward and she was my crutch. 
sometimes i find myself wondering, wandering, smoldering with all these fears of my father, 
when i would rather be here sleeping you. so i'll sit on porches and busstops and stoops, 
trying to let my thoughts regroup, but this noisy street makes me hurt. 
(justin's part) we fell like timber with fingertips out of reach like childrens dreams, 
the morning light filtered through the cracked frames of fathers bifocals, 
we danced early and we got and embarassed and dizzy that morning.
and these aren't my bones, cause these bones are on loan.
V. someone else's eden
intro 
palm muted slide into E/palm muted Em
Verse
Em-G-C
"i saw father staring in the mirror and children building castles in the yard"
Em-G-C-B7
pre-chorus
Em-G-B7-Em
chorus
Am-B7-F#m-Em
(repeat all of the above)
i woke up in someone else's eden, mother mary on the telephone, i saw father staring in the mirror 
and children building castles in the yard. a disenchanted mistress holds her necklace, her bare feet burned 
from walking on the red earth, the heat stroked city walks sleepless, hear the pulpit father speaks of the way 
love looks to him. i woke up in someone else's dream of concrete streets and wind-up men, 
in tailored suits, shaking hands, under the sunset of an eroded landscape, the church and mosque are praying 
for the sinners walking hand and hand in the yard.
VII. The Tide 
Intro/Verses
C-Am-C-G
"i hope the fire doesn't die in you..."
A-G-C
the only way i get around is riding my black bicycle, and someday i will ride it back to you. 
there's many miles between us, right now i see the icicles, and when they melt i'll ride it back to you.
(andre's verse) i tried not to read yr diary, tried not to invade yr privacy. 
there's not much i can say but i'm not as idealistic as i used to be, 
and i'm not sure anymore how i feel about anarchy.
but i don't feel lost and i havn't been found and i'm not sure if i'm not even sure if i want to be. 
but there's someone out there who loves me, and who knows, someday we just might get married.
but this is not my home. this is not my home.
(chorus) and i hope the fire doesn't die in you--if i feel nothing then nothing feels new. 
we've broken some promises and cast of some ties. we were praying for rain and in came the tide. (niko's verse)
remember when my heart-strings slid to dissonance you offered me some tune you'd found in the ground
then you tossed that dress you'd worn for one day when your hands first felt dirty 
this is how we found out how we were alive (chorus)
VIII. are you asking to be a sail?
Verse
G-Bm-C
"i might have fell too low"
Am-G
"i might have tried to hide"
Am-D
"we'll walk the dotted line of inattention what stepped in while i was gone..."
Am-Bm-G-D
IX. all paths lead
verse
D-Bm-G-A
chorus
Bm-A-G
all paths lead to different bedrooms, these hosts lie in their tattered dresses, 
addressing the new boy of the evening his head is in his hand. we weren't meant for this, 
we weren't meant for this, we're all uprooted flowers transplanted to strange homes, 
caught a bird with delicate wings, a little paperbird trembled in my palm, 
escaped into the garden behind these white white walls, 
i'll float into your room on the scent of juniper and ale, 
we'll dance until we fall, and fall until we wake.
XI. stranger at the door
3/4
intro
Em-G-D-C
part 2 4/4 "a liar in the table"
Em-G-D-C x 3
on the fourth time it goes 
EmA liar at the table a fire iGn the barn
Da breath, my rDibs, in sorrowC  
"there's nobody coming"
Em-F
(until)
Emgod fearing back fucking breakiEmng
Ffucking breaking
Fthere's a stranger at the door
repeat part 2
"shut the lights..."
Em
maybe i was waiting on the wonders of a patient when i wished the stars on you.
but patience breeds no virtue, it will only turn green to blue.
there are others in the cities BURNING BUILDINGS  by the droughted lake that year who asked the prophet 
so lazily just what they could do for their fear
a liar at the table a fire in the barn a breath my ribs in sorrow
there's nobody coming there's nobody coming there's nobody coming there's nobody coming there's nobody coming 
there's nobody coming there's nobody coming there's nobody coming there's nobody coming there's nobody coming 
shut the lights shut the window shut the door shut the lights theres nobody coming
THERES A STRANGER AT THE DOOR A STRANGER AT THE DOOR
we'll market this fear, all this solace of years, i'm a god-fearing, back fucking breaking fucking breaking
 THERES A STRANGER AT THE DOOR
shut the lights shutthewindowshutthedoor
XII. green river sometimes
Don't exactly know how to play this. i do know that the only chords niko uses in it are Em, D,C,G 
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""Lights In the Quarry" chords/lyrics" by mallory
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we have been getting a bunch of e-mails about chords and lyrics to songs--so to make it easy--
here are (almost) all of the lyrics and chords to all of the songs we’ve written over the past two years 
you will probably need to track down niko or noel or have some patience to figure them out.
lights in the quarry....
.. ..
I. one hand extended to you, the other to traffic...
.. ..
(in 3/4 time)
.. ..
verses and chorus
C-Am-G
.. ..
"our bodies are tangled..."
Am
"you can't help me tonight…"
G
C-Am-G until end
.. ..
so we packed our bags, said "sure we got a long way to drive--" doesn't seem so far tonight.
 And the firetrucks and ambulances interrupt our peaceful naps that we take 
in the backs of truckstops in the grass. And we read the signs in the truckstops
 and the halls of our old high schools/they don't mean much--
but i guess that they mean enough for us to pay attention.
 and i wanted you like a deer caught in high beams/like broken down (broken down) rhyme schemes.
 I counted time in highway lines and cigarettes 
and quarters spent on phone calls that go direct to answering machines. (chorus). 
And i'm trying to find home, but where is that? is it the place where i can rest my bones, 
or the place where you first caressed my bones or where there's no telephone.
 And you ran your fingers down my spine like electric powerlines, your profile stared at the stars, 
silhouetted by passing cars. And i said let's hitch a ride, but you said no, let us stay a while. 
it's nice out tonight...and our bodies are tangled my mind is mangled and you can't help me tonight. 
(chorus)
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II. swingin' against fascism....
.. ..
Capo 1
G-C
.. ..
.. ..
i put on my muddiest of shoes, i'm gonna swing dance in your living room. waltz into yr kitchen, 
eat all of your supposed refuse, howl at the moon, never do what you want me to. you may call me rude--
but i won't let you politely dig my grave, or tell me where to name my final resting place.
 where's the demarcation line from my fist to a giant's might. hold fast, do not fear the sea. 
hold out, you're stronger than the riot police. don't be startled, darlin'--it's just me. 
so we go shirtless in the rain, make a home nearly any place, camp out on fire escapes 
stare deep into our lover's face say "i won't swear to god, but i'll swear to some holy mistake). 
cuz it's just time and gravity, grinding us we're soft machines, we're warm machines, 
.. ..
III. ghost people....
capo 6
.. ..
verse
C-Am-C(strum the low E string too)-G
.. ..
chorus
F-C-Am-F-C-Am-F-C-Am-G-C-G-C
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The things we’ve carried, well they really don’t matter, but the things we’ve dropped will follow us,
 a dashing ghost came in the post, he told me that I mean the most horrible things, 
when I said she spread her wings, and after that it rained for three weeks straight, 
so we layered our free sweaters overnight, wishing only the best wishes, kissing only the best dreams, 
let it seem, like the splitting seams, didn’t expose them, so we set sail 
on the great flood that is the world, but silly me, look at me, I forgot my common dignity, 
and didn’t pack the sense to keep up on my rent. And my memories might seem cliché, 
and I wish I always had the right things to say, that my body was perfect in its own damn way. 
I’ve got fourteen letters in a wrapped envelope, 
they spoke of love in thinly veiled changed handwriting, 
and burned so nicely into smoke, so believe me when I say 
that youre not just a cobblestone in my path, 
cuz if you were you’d make me crash, and forget where I was going, and where I was, 
but I would know, I was home at last. I always try to concentrate when I’m running late
 but the fog of these ghost people hide the way to our nice steeple, let’s get us a flashlight, 
and the light just might, help our failing sight. (chorus) what’s up with those kids 
from the other side of town, cant they see the ghosts around, me cant they see the ghosts surround, 
no they don’t, but the tide washes us away, its alright I didn’t want to stay.
.. ..
IV. fine wine and ladies....
Em-D-C
.. ..
verse
Em-D-C-Em-D-C-Em
guitar build up thing
G“and the rain came down”
G-C-D-C
“sticks and stones”
G-C-G-C-D
.. ..
where are my wings my dying wisdom, I left them at the wayside by the drain, 
im young but im aging my body is changing like a moth dying slowly towards flight, 
and I rent these rooms with nails in the walls and birds that live in bathroom vents, 
V. devil in the moonlight
.. ..
capo 2
.. ..
G-C
.. ..
it's evening time. i'd trust anyone in morning light i'd put my arm around the devil in the moonlight. 
they say home is where the heart is, i say home is were we parted for the last time. 
and it changes with the seasons and like the leaves i'm leaving, just one more time. 
we make our own mythologies pass em off as autobiographies, but how vain can two people be to think 
that their legacy will live longer than the trees that he planted, when he was just fourteen.
 with his father in the backyard, his father with his strong arms, working the ground. 
now lips are moving, there's barely any sound or maybe i'm just not caught up in what's around me. 
and it changes with the seasons it's a tired restless feeling--
darlin' don't go this time. because i fit in you so perfect it burns,
 but i don't mind the hurtin cuz it comes from you. and it feels good to cry sometimes
 but as an ending it doesn't satisfy.
.. ..
VI. this song kills cops
.. based around G and C major chords..
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VII. red, white, and blues
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intro/between verses
Gverses
G-Em-C-G
“hey what do you know…”
G-Em-C
“this time when the levee breaks”
G-Em-C-G
.. ..
VIII. god in the details
(the rhythm of these chord changes is somewhat tricky but here is a solid skeleton)
.. ..
the opening riff is played on the b-string
.. ..
b- 3^0 5^0 3^0 1^0
.. ..
the underlying chords of the song are
Verse
riff G-riff C
.. ..
“you moved your hand”
C-G
.. ..
“and the future is a suture”
D-C-G-D-C-Em
.. ..
“I won’t be true to you”
riffG-riffC
.. ..
banjo/bass/drum break
 Emand G  
ending
G-C
.. ..
i like the grass stains on yr knees, but can we go home soon please? 
it's been the bluest monday since the last blue sunday, drenched in november rain. 
and i'll sleep the day away won't hear the sounds of...someone listening. 
and you might find it might be time to sing. you moved your head an inch to the right 
and i swore that god was in the details that night. but i am an athiest, so what does that make us, 
two people in love, or just two people with broken compasses. ....
it's the sound of someone listening, and the future is a suture 
but i believe in believing in something, maybe i'm not that cracked up at all. 
and i promised you i'd love ya till the birds stop singing. now i'm in the woods...with a shotgun. 
i won't be true to you. i won't be true to anybody, anybody new. like the songs i knew.
 all the songs i wish i knew. like the songs i wrote. all the songs i wrote for you. 
strange faces strange places, strange people (strange folk). it's the sounds of someone listening.
.. ..
VIII. fuck this I’m leaving
.. ..
E-A
.. ..
verse
Bm-Am-D-Bm-Am-G
.. ..
“we left footprints”
Bm-Am-G
.. ..
‘the red clamps on the left ventricle”
Bm-A-D
.. ..
“the light of idea”
Bm-D-Am
.. ..
“we’ll make love in all the rubble”
G-D-G-D
.. ..
bass/drum break
D-Bm
and we cast shadows in our feeble human light (x2)
tuning (GCEA)
.. ..
verse

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Strange Homes

by Mallory

Lyrics & chords · Original key

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Also included here are the chords and lyrics to Lights in the Quarry

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Strange Homes

I. the house you were raised in

The house you were raised in

verse pattern is like this:

G Em G

go away from my western window

Em G

it's not the writing on the wall

part 2

Em D

it's still the ocean even if it's frozen

why not

ending is

Em-D-C

go away from my western window it's not the writing on the wall, we built the house that you were raised and

we're tearing it down this fall, your fathers face is turning gray and the ashes are still cooling off,

but thats okay i also live in a dream and im hoping to see you there. (sofia)

we spend our whole lives just trying to build up our towers to heaven, from what i have learned

its hard to discern which way is the right direction,

the higher you build the higher it will be to escape from,

but me i quite toiling a long time ago continue at your own discretion.

it's still the ocean even if it's frozen

why not. we're alive and the water's fine and my mind's a beehive why not.

so far out west, i don't need to be, found a strange place where you used to sleep,

it's been raining i never got dry

(**these three lines one by one and then repeated over each other until the end**)

found a strange home

II. god's work

intro

verse

Am-C-Bm

part 2 (pseudo bossa nova feel part) "a boy said please don't panic"

Am-G

part 3 "and your father died last spring"

C-G-F

part 4 "i was not afraid of being alone"

C-G-Am-F

(return to verse)

part 5 "dark as the ocean"

Am-C-Bm

"gave up years ago"

God's Work (niko's part) in the valley where we found a body lost it's eyes were loud

and with the withering loose order my face in electric cords displayed so proudly with a flag

but did they know oh did they know

this is god's work we do my metal angel rusted through at the well where we said we grew

i did not pray for a lying daughter down beneath the tv station static wave we knew where we came from

God's Work (andre's part) there was a moment months ago when i'd forgotten all the lies that my teachers forgot

they were bleeding. And nobody knows what i'm saying they think that we're all joking

but they forget that love's not a novelty. seems like we all remember boots on in a dark december,

and that fire is all too real.

a boy said please don't panic while a girl slept in an abandoned attic

and if we're chaotic then there are lives that are fucking starving.

and your father died last spring, and these vulgar symbols don't say anything.

and if we are all then that's left, then there's no need for this. my love i have a secret--

we are all that's left. i was no afraid of us being alone, i was just afraid of us being all we know.

2,3,4.

there was a moment days ago when a friend told me they were dying. but growing up is giving up,

and death is adulthood. loved a healthy hatred reserved solely for The Species;

we are a sole ingredient that gave up years ago.

we were dark as the ocean...

this is god's work we do... we gave up years ago.

III. dissident

Capo 3

D-E

(on the 8th and tenth fret of the a-string during this song and that seemed to work )

i was the humpback camel

you were the needles eye

how did i get inside

a miracle of modern science

contemporary progress

and they say that im just a caveman

painting a wall

im seeing only shadows and thinking

they are they're all mine

a train whistles dissonant

and im some no count dissident

just getting lost in the mist

of a time when we were both missing it.

and we screamed up the punks

and imagined our sunset

would rise inside our eyes

and always set behind us

i've had days in which my face dont fit

and nights defined by amphetamines

and oh my god im a hypocrite

with tattoos and two skinny wrists

im almost twenty but im still

just a little kid

who sometimes tends to throw stupid fits

but i wont grow up

i wont grow up

no, no not even a little bit.

We'll all keep on whistlin

we'll all keep on whistlin

and maybe you'll keep

whistlin too yeah

we'll all keep on whistlin' (repeat forever and scream)

IV. these bones on loan

verses/middle section

D-A-G

"these aren't my bones..."

Bm-G-D-G

wishing that i was a masochist that i was a sadomasochist not taking chances,

holding my head above water dosen't mean i'm in love. she was a writer and i was a fighter,

i guess that we couldn't own up to either- i was a coward and she was my crutch.

sometimes i find myself wondering, wandering, smoldering with all these fears of my father,

when i would rather be here sleeping you. so i'll sit on porches and busstops and stoops,

trying to let my thoughts regroup, but this noisy street makes me hurt.

(justin's part) we fell like timber with fingertips out of reach like childrens dreams,

the morning light filtered through the cracked frames of fathers bifocals,

we danced early and we got and embarassed and dizzy that morning.

and these aren't my bones, cause these bones are on loan.

V. someone else's eden

intro

palm muted slide into E/palm muted Em

Verse

Em-G-C

"i saw father staring in the mirror and children building castles in the yard"

Em-G-C-B7

pre-chorus

Em-G-B7-Em

chorus

Am-B7-F#m-Em

(repeat all of the above)

i woke up in someone else's eden, mother mary on the telephone, i saw father staring in the mirror

and children building castles in the yard. a disenchanted mistress holds her necklace, her bare feet burned

from walking on the red earth, the heat stroked city walks sleepless, hear the pulpit father speaks of the way

love looks to him. i woke up in someone else's dream of concrete streets and wind-up men,

in tailored suits, shaking hands, under the sunset of an eroded landscape, the church and mosque are praying

for the sinners walking hand and hand in the yard.

VII. The Tide

Intro/Verses

C-Am-C-G

"i hope the fire doesn't die in you..."

A-G-C

the only way i get around is riding my black bicycle, and someday i will ride it back to you.

there's many miles between us, right now i see the icicles, and when they melt i'll ride it back to you.

(andre's verse) i tried not to read yr diary, tried not to invade yr privacy.

there's not much i can say but i'm not as idealistic as i used to be,

and i'm not sure anymore how i feel about anarchy.

but i don't feel lost and i havn't been found and i'm not sure if i'm not even sure if i want to be.

but there's someone out there who loves me, and who knows, someday we just might get married.

but this is not my home. this is not my home.

(chorus) and i hope the fire doesn't die in you--if i feel nothing then nothing feels new.

we've broken some promises and cast of some ties. we were praying for rain and in came the tide. (niko's verse)

remember when my heart-strings slid to dissonance you offered me some tune you'd found in the ground

then you tossed that dress you'd worn for one day when your hands first felt dirty

this is how we found out how we were alive (chorus)

VIII. are you asking to be a sail?

Verse

G-Bm-C

"i might have fell too low"

Am-G

"i might have tried to hide"

Am-D

"we'll walk the dotted line of inattention what stepped in while i was gone..."

Am-Bm-G-D

IX. all paths lead

verse

D-Bm-G-A

chorus

Bm-A-G

all paths lead to different bedrooms, these hosts lie in their tattered dresses,

addressing the new boy of the evening his head is in his hand. we weren't meant for this,

we weren't meant for this, we're all uprooted flowers transplanted to strange homes,

caught a bird with delicate wings, a little paperbird trembled in my palm,

escaped into the garden behind these white white walls,

i'll float into your room on the scent of juniper and ale,

we'll dance until we fall, and fall until we wake.

XI. stranger at the door

3/4

intro

Em-G-D-C

part 2 4/4 "a liar in the table"

Em-G-D-C x 3

on the fourth time it goes

Em G

A liar at the table a fire in the barn

D D C

a breath, my ribs, in sorrow

"there's nobody coming"

Em-F

(until)

Em Em

god fearing back fucking breaking

fucking breaking

there's a stranger at the door

repeat part 2

"shut the lights..."

maybe i was waiting on the wonders of a patient when i wished the stars on you.

but patience breeds no virtue, it will only turn green to blue.

there are others in the cities BURNING BUILDINGS  by the droughted lake that year who asked the prophet

so lazily just what they could do for their fear

a liar at the table a fire in the barn a breath my ribs in sorrow

there's nobody coming there's nobody coming there's nobody coming there's nobody coming there's nobody coming

shut the lights shut the window shut the door shut the lights theres nobody coming

THERES A STRANGER AT THE DOOR A STRANGER AT THE DOOR

we'll market this fear, all this solace of years, i'm a god-fearing, back fucking breaking fucking breaking

 THERES A STRANGER AT THE DOOR

shut the lights shutthewindowshutthedoor

XII. green river sometimes

Don't exactly know how to play this. i do know that the only chords niko uses in it are Em, D,C,G

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""Lights In the Quarry" chords/lyrics" by mallory

we have been getting a bunch of e-mails about chords and lyrics to songs--so to make it easy--

here are (almost) all of the lyrics and chords to all of the songs we’ve written over the past two years

you will probably need to track down niko or noel or have some patience to figure them out.

lights in the quarry....

.. ..

I. one hand extended to you, the other to traffic...

.. ..

(in 3/4 time)

.. ..

verses and chorus

C-Am-G

.. ..

"our bodies are tangled..."

"you can't help me tonight…"

C-Am-G until end

.. ..

so we packed our bags, said "sure we got a long way to drive--" doesn't seem so far tonight.

And the firetrucks and ambulances interrupt our peaceful naps that we take

in the backs of truckstops in the grass. And we read the signs in the truckstops

and the halls of our old high schools/they don't mean much--

but i guess that they mean enough for us to pay attention.

and i wanted you like a deer caught in high beams/like broken down (broken down) rhyme schemes.

I counted time in highway lines and cigarettes

and quarters spent on phone calls that go direct to answering machines. (chorus).

And i'm trying to find home, but where is that? is it the place where i can rest my bones,

or the place where you first caressed my bones or where there's no telephone.

And you ran your fingers down my spine like electric powerlines, your profile stared at the stars,

silhouetted by passing cars. And i said let's hitch a ride, but you said no, let us stay a while.

it's nice out tonight...and our bodies are tangled my mind is mangled and you can't help me tonight.

(chorus)

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II. swingin' against fascism....

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Capo 1

G-C

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i put on my muddiest of shoes, i'm gonna swing dance in your living room. waltz into yr kitchen,

eat all of your supposed refuse, howl at the moon, never do what you want me to. you may call me rude--

but i won't let you politely dig my grave, or tell me where to name my final resting place.

where's the demarcation line from my fist to a giant's might. hold fast, do not fear the sea.

hold out, you're stronger than the riot police. don't be startled, darlin'--it's just me.

so we go shirtless in the rain, make a home nearly any place, camp out on fire escapes

stare deep into our lover's face say "i won't swear to god, but i'll swear to some holy mistake).

cuz it's just time and gravity, grinding us we're soft machines, we're warm machines,

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III. ghost people....

capo 6

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verse

C-Am-C(strum the low E string too)-G

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chorus

F-C-Am-F-C-Am-F-C-Am-G-C-G-C

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The things we’ve carried, well they really don’t matter, but the things we’ve dropped will follow us,

a dashing ghost came in the post, he told me that I mean the most horrible things,

when I said she spread her wings, and after that it rained for three weeks straight,

so we layered our free sweaters overnight, wishing only the best wishes, kissing only the best dreams,

let it seem, like the splitting seams, didn’t expose them, so we set sail

on the great flood that is the world, but silly me, look at me, I forgot my common dignity,

and didn’t pack the sense to keep up on my rent. And my memories might seem cliché,

and I wish I always had the right things to say, that my body was perfect in its own damn way.

I’ve got fourteen letters in a wrapped envelope,

they spoke of love in thinly veiled changed handwriting,

and burned so nicely into smoke, so believe me when I say

that youre not just a cobblestone in my path,

cuz if you were you’d make me crash, and forget where I was going, and where I was,

but I would know, I was home at last. I always try to concentrate when I’m running late

but the fog of these ghost people hide the way to our nice steeple, let’s get us a flashlight,

and the light just might, help our failing sight. (chorus) what’s up with those kids

from the other side of town, cant they see the ghosts around, me cant they see the ghosts surround,

no they don’t, but the tide washes us away, its alright I didn’t want to stay.

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IV. fine wine and ladies....

Em-D-C

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verse

Em-D-C-Em-D-C-Em

guitar build up thing

“and the rain came down”

G-C-D-C

“sticks and stones”

G-C-G-C-D

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where are my wings my dying wisdom, I left them at the wayside by the drain,

im young but im aging my body is changing like a moth dying slowly towards flight,

and I rent these rooms with nails in the walls and birds that live in bathroom vents,

V. devil in the moonlight

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capo 2

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G-C

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it's evening time. i'd trust anyone in morning light i'd put my arm around the devil in the moonlight.

they say home is where the heart is, i say home is were we parted for the last time.

and it changes with the seasons and like the leaves i'm leaving, just one more time.

we make our own mythologies pass em off as autobiographies, but how vain can two people be to think

that their legacy will live longer than the trees that he planted, when he was just fourteen.

with his father in the backyard, his father with his strong arms, working the ground.

now lips are moving, there's barely any sound or maybe i'm just not caught up in what's around me.

and it changes with the seasons it's a tired restless feeling--

darlin' don't go this time. because i fit in you so perfect it burns,

but i don't mind the hurtin cuz it comes from you. and it feels good to cry sometimes

but as an ending it doesn't satisfy.

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VI. this song kills cops

.. based around G and C major chords..

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VII. red, white, and blues

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intro/between verses

verses

G-Em-C-G

“hey what do you know…”

G-Em-C

“this time when the levee breaks”

G-Em-C-G

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VIII. god in the details

(the rhythm of these chord changes is somewhat tricky but here is a solid skeleton)

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the opening riff is played on the b-string

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b- 3^0 5^0 3^0 1^0

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the underlying chords of the song are

Verse

riff G-riff C

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“you moved your hand”

C-G

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“and the future is a suture”

D-C-G-D-C-Em

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“I won’t be true to you”

riffG-riffC

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banjo/bass/drum break

Em G

and

ending

G-C

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i like the grass stains on yr knees, but can we go home soon please?

it's been the bluest monday since the last blue sunday, drenched in november rain.

and i'll sleep the day away won't hear the sounds of...someone listening.

and you might find it might be time to sing. you moved your head an inch to the right

and i swore that god was in the details that night. but i am an athiest, so what does that make us,

two people in love, or just two people with broken compasses. ....

it's the sound of someone listening, and the future is a suture

but i believe in believing in something, maybe i'm not that cracked up at all.

and i promised you i'd love ya till the birds stop singing. now i'm in the woods...with a shotgun.

i won't be true to you. i won't be true to anybody, anybody new. like the songs i knew.

all the songs i wish i knew. like the songs i wrote. all the songs i wrote for you.

strange faces strange places, strange people (strange folk). it's the sounds of someone listening.

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VIII. fuck this I’m leaving

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E-A

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verse

Bm-Am-D-Bm-Am-G

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“we left footprints”

Bm-Am-G

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‘the red clamps on the left ventricle”

Bm-A-D

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“the light of idea”

Bm-D-Am

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“we’ll make love in all the rubble”

G-D-G-D

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bass/drum break

D-Bm

and we cast shadows in our feeble human light (x2)

tuning (GCEA)

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verse

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