Cassadaga
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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
Four Winds
Capo 3rd fret
Intro: Em, C, G, Am, G, Am, C x4
Your cEmlass, your caste, your country, sect, your nCame or your tribe
There's pGeople always dying trying to kAmeep them alive
His bGody's decomposing in coAmntainers tonight
In an abaCndoned building where
A squEmatter's made a mural of a MeCxican girl
With fGifteen cans of spray paint in a cAmhemical swirl
She's sGtanding in the ashes at the eAmnd of the world
Four winds blCowing through her hair
But when great SAmatan's gDone, the whore of AmBabyloDn
She just cCan't susGtain the pressure wChere it's plGaced
She cAmaves
Interlude: Em, C, G, Am, G, Am, C
The BEmible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the QuC'ran is mute
If you'd bGurn them all together you'd get cAmlose to the truth still
They're poGuring over sanskrit on the iAmvy league moons
While shadows leCngthen in the sun
Cast on a sEmchool of meditation built to sCoften the times
And hGold us at the center while the sAmpiral unwinds
It's knGocking over fences, crossing pAmroperty lines
Four winds, cCry until it comes
And it's the sAmong of mDan
Slouching towards AmBethlehDem
A heart just cCan't conGtain all of that eCmpty spGace
It bAmreaks, it bDreaks, (it breaks)
Interlude: Em, C, Em, C, Em, C, D
Well, I went bEmack, I rent a Cadillac, a cCompany jet
Like a nGewly orphaned refugee, reAmtracing my steps
All the Gway to Cassadega to coAmmmune with the dead
They said, "You'd bCetter look alive"
And I was oEmff to old Dakota where a geCnocide sleeps
In the blGack hills, the bad lands, the caAmlloused east
I buGried my ballast, I mAmade my peace
With four winds, leCvelling the pines
But when great SAmatan's gDone, the whore of AmBabylDon
She just cCan't reGmain with all that oCuter sGpace
She bAmreaks, she brDeaks, she caAmves, she cDaves.
End on: Em
If The Brakeman Turns My Way
Capo 4th fret
When paGnic grips your body and your hCeart is a hummingGbird
RGaven thoughts blacken your mind until you're breCathing in reDverse
AEmll your friends and sedDatives mean weGll but mDake it woCrse
EEmvery reasCsurance just maEmgnifies the doCubt
BeEmtter find yourDself a plCace to leDvel outG
Em, D
Got a crGicket for a conscience always loCoks the other wGay
A coGcaine soul starts seeming like an eCmpty cabDaret
Hey, whEmere have all the daDncers gone? Now the mGusic doeDsn't plCay
Tried to liEmsten to the riCver but you couEmldn't shut your moCuth
Better tEmake a liDttle tiCme to leDvel outG
CI never thought of runGning
CMy feet just led the wDay
GMixed up Signals
CBullet Train
GCars are switched out in the Dcrazy rain
GI could meet you Cany place
If the BDrakemCan tuDrns my wGay
Em, D
All this auGtomatic writing I have trCied to underGstand
From a psyGchedelic angel who was tugCging on my hDand
It's an inEmfinite coinDcidence but it doGesn't fDorm a pClan
So I'm heEmaded for New EnCgland or the PEmaris of the SCouth
Gonna fEmind myDself somCewhere to leDvel outG
Em, D
Are your brGothels full, Oh Babylon, with meCrry MiddleGmen?
Never pGeer out of their periscopes from those dCeep opium dDens
All this deEmath must need a countDerweight always somGeone bDorn agCain
First a mEmother bathes her chCild then the oEmther way arCound
The Scales alEmways fiDnd a wCay to leDvel outG
CI tried to pass for noGthing
CBut my dreams gave me aDway
GMixed up Signals
CBullet Train
GPeople snuffed out in the bDrutal rain
GI could live to Cany age
If the BDrakemCan tDurns my wGay
It is an Amold world it's hard to reD7member
Like a dGime store mysCtery
I'm a reAmpeat first time offD7ender
C D(G)
Who has rewritten history
GMixed up tea leaves
CPhantom Pain
GFuzzy logic in the cDrazy rain
GGetting better eDvery day
If the BDrakemCan tuDrns my wGay
GMixed up Signals
CBullet Train
GCars are switched out in the bDlinding rain
GHe'll be smiling as he sCeals my fate
When the BDrakemCan tuDrns my wGay
Hot Knives
Capo 2nd fret
Intro: G G G Cx 4
The WGife forGgave the MGistress Cfor she oGnly enGtertaiGnedC
The pGain was goGne the insGtant Cshe cleGared her thGroat to spGeak her namCe
Said, "BEmoth of us must suffer from the sCame unending ache"
G G G Cx2
The woGrld was nGot of intGerest Cthough her dGays were Gnever GdullC
Her bGed benGeath a crGucifiCx on guGests perfGorming miGracleCs
Em C G G G Cx2
With the Son of God just hanging like a common criminal
Am C G G G Cx2
When I do wrong I am with God, she thought
Am C G G G Cx2
When I feel lost I am not at all
So give me BBmlack Light (Give Give me)
So give me HCot Knives (Deep Clean sleep)
On a daAmnce floor no one teDlls time (There is no time)
Am C G G G Cx2
Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what?
Am C G G G Cx2
I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up
She weGnt to sGee a MGystic Cwho made mGediciGne from rGainC
And gaGve up hGer exisGtence Cto feel evGerythingG, dream otGhers' dreamCs
Em C G G G Cx2
Bid farewell to her family with one ecstatic wave (Please take care I love you all)
Am C G G G Cx2
Out the window as the car rolled away
Am C G G G Cx2
She just vanished into a thick mist of change
So let us reBmjoice (Let's Rejoice!)
In all this PiCnk Noise (Out Pink Noise!)
An oscillAmation that we can pDin point (We're right here!)
Am Cx5
AmEnd CODn: G
Make a Plan To Love Me
Capo 2nd Fret
Chords
G320033
Dxx0232
Am002210
Em022000
G2540055
G3760077
G4870077
Always hit G4 quickly, it's not played as long as any of the other chords
Intro:
G D G D Am D Am D G G2 G3 G4
GI Dheard you're scheming new pyramiGds
GAnDother big idea to get you Amrich
Am(MaDke a Plan to love me) Am
AmMake a plan to lDove me soGmetime soon
G G2 G3 G4 G
GYoDu said you had your foot in the doorG
GYoDu buy and then you sell, you buy some mAmore
Am(MaDke Ama Plan to love me)
AmMake a plan to loDve me someGtime soon
G G2 G3 G4 G
EmLife is too short
EmDeath doesn't ask
CIt Gdon't owe you that
EmSome things you lose
EmYou don't get back
CSo just know what you Dhave
AmAnd make a plan to lDove me somGetime soon
G G2 G3 G4 G
G D G D
Am G Am G
G G2 G3 G4 G
GFiDrst you want to ride off into the sunG
GThDen you want to shoot straight to the mooAmn
Am(MaDke Ama Plan to love me)
AmMakDe a plan to love me someGtime soon
GWhDen you are young the world is a ferris wheelG
GI Dknow we will grow old it is lovely, stillAm
AmMakDe a plan to love me soGmetime soon
EmLife is too short
EmTo be a fool
CI Gdon't owe you that
EmDo what you feel
EmWhatever is cool
CBut I just have to Dask
AmWill you make a plan to lDove me?
AmWill you make a plan to lDove me?
AmWill you make a plan to loDve me soGmetime soon?
G G2 G3 G4 G
Soul Singer In The Session Band
Capo 1st fret
C F C C F G C F C F G F G C
CSee the soul singer in the session baFndC
CShredded to ribbons beneath the microphone FstandG
CFelt the quickness of pity like a flaFsh in a panC
FFor the soul singeGr in the session FbandG C
(This chord progression is constant. So just keep playing it!)
Now a red carpet bagger makes a blackberry call
To the plastic pirhana in the city of salt
Wasted wheat paste campaign post no bills on the wall
You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault
See the soul singer in the session band
Shredded to ribbons beneath the microphone stand
Felt the quickness of pity like a flash in a pan
For the soul singer in the session band
I had a lengthy discussion about the power of myth
With a postmodern author who didn't exist
In this fictitious world, our reality twists
I was a hopeless romantic, now I'm just turning tricks
Just like that soul singer in the session band
Shredded confetti beneath the microphone stand
Saw the conflicts of interest, slipping cash in the hand
Of the soul singer in the session band
Now his room is on fire since he painted it red
There's a stranger, silk sequins at the foot of the bed
He's been to weddings and funerals, but he still never wept
Now sorrow is pleasure when you want it instead
Just like our soul singer in the session band
Wailed like an infant atop a white baby grand
We'll need every sand bag and every man
To save the soul singer in the session band
C F C C F G C F C F G F G C
Headlights or taillights, it's a flip of a coin
I've been coming and going since the day I was born
And I followed the bread crumbs but I never got home
I grew old in an instant, now I'm all on my own
Just like that soul singer in the session band
Shredded to nothing beneath the microphone stand
Saw the wave of the future through the crack of the dam
Drowned the soul singer in the session band
FBless the soul sinGger in the sessioFn band G C
classic Cars
Capo 2nd fret
intro: G x4
She was a rDeal royal lady, true pGatron of the arts
Said the Abest country singers die in the bBmack of classic carGs
So if I eDver got too hungry for a sGuitcase or guitar
DTo think of them all Aalone in the Ddark
So I lDaid some nights beside her in a bGed made for a queen
AShe said I kissed her different, that all the Bmmen her age were Gmean
DGave me anything I wanted, Oh the Ggenerosity
I took alDl that I cAould, it was Dfree
Now the sDky is a torn up denim and the clGouds just splattered paint
It’s a Aroom I’m renovating; it’s a Bmname I gotta Gchange
If I get oDut of California I’m going bGack to my home state
To tell them Dall that I Amade a Dmistake
GAnd I keep looking for that blindfold faith
ALighting candles to a cynical saint
DWho wants the last laugh at the Afly trapped in the Bmwindowsill Gtape
AYou can go right out of your mind trying to escape
DFrom the panicked paradAox of day to dBmayG
If you can’t uDnderstand something then it’s bAest to be afraBmidG
DThe whole world it loves you if you’re a cGhic chameleon
AIntersecting circles she could hang with anyBmoneG
But when coDnducting business she would Glie about where she’s from
Saying, "LDife is how it Ais not how iDt was"
DI learned to listen felt like I was baGck at school
AShe’d talk forever about the phases of the moBmonG
Saying, "EvDerything is a cycle, yoGu’ve got to let it come to you
DAnd when it does, Ayou will know Dwhat to do"
DWithout even knowing I guess I took up Gher advice
Painted Aher front door it seemed a Bmsuitable goodGbye
DIt’s not that often but I thGink of her sometimes
Just something qDuaint, a Acouple sDhips in the night
GAnd they keep moving at a glacial pace
ATurning circles in a memory maze
DI made a new cast of the death mAask that’s gonna Bmcover my faGce
AI had to change the combination to the safe
Hide it aDll behind a wAall let people wBmaitG
And never tArust a heart that is so bent it can’t DbreakBm G
Middleman
Capo 4th fret
Chords
F#m? x42200
F#m2? x02200
F#m7x22400
G320033
Bmx24332
Cx32010
Intro
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
I traveled though the atmosphere
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
as a wall of feedback climbed
F#m2? F#m7
The pegs were gold,
F#m2? F#m7
the band was old,
F#m2?
they played,
F#m2? F#m?
in half time
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
Now every dream gets whittled down
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
just like every fool gets wise
F#m2? F#m7
You will never reap
F#m2? F#m7
of any seed
F#m2?
deprived
F#m2?
of sunlight
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
GSo BmI have become the Middleman
GThBme gray areas are mine
CThFe GinBm-between, the absentee
F#m2?
Is a beautiful disguise
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
etc.
Cleanse Song
Chords
Dxx0232
D7xx0212
G320033
A002222
F#133211
Verse:
DHear the chimes did you kD7now that the wGind when it blDows
Git is older than RDome, and aAll of this sorrow
D D7 G D
See the nDew Pyramids down in old Manhattan from the roof of a friend
AI watched an empire ending
F#Heard it loud and long the rDivers song Gtime marching on
Ato a mad mans drum
Filler:
D D7 G A
D D7 G A
Chorus:
F#On a detox loft over glendale park over sidewalk chalk some rope red startlAe
GSo I'm up when I sleep on an Oxnard Beach F#with a fever of dreams that scare
me sober
AInto saltless dinner
No One Would Riot For Less
Intro: Bm D A
The picking pattern is easy:
Bm x4 D x4 A x4
E-------2-------------2-------------5--------|
B---3-----3---3---3-----3---2---5-----5---5--|
G-----------4-------------2-------------6----|
D-----4-------------0-------------7----------|
A-2---------------------------7--------------|
E--------------------------------------------|
BmDeath may come, invisible
DOr in a holy wall of fire
AIn the breath between the markers
BmOn some black I-80 mile
BmFrom the madness of the governments
DTo the vengeance of the sea
AEverything is eclipsed
BmBy the shape of destiny
So love me Anow
Hell is Bmcoming
Could you do it Anow?
Hell is Bmhere
Do you see the Dsterile soil
Poisoned Bmsky
AYellow water
The final scraps of Glife
Bringing Bmnew Atears
Instrumental: Bm G Ax2
DWake, baby, Bmwake
Leave that Gblanket around you
There's no where Awe're safe
DI'm leaving this Bmplace
But there's Gnothing
I'm planning to Atake
Just Bmyou
Just Ayou
Just Gyou
Then finish with F# Bm
Coat Check Dream Song???
I Must Belong Somewhere
Capo 3rd fret
Intro: C G Am F G
C G Am F
Leave the brCight bGlue dAmoor on the wFhitewashed waGll
Leave the deCath lGedgAmer under Fcity haGll
Leave the jAmoyfuGl aCir in that Frubber bGall todayC G Am F G
Leave the lCilaGc prAmint on the lFinen shGeet
Leave the biCrds yGou kiAmlled at your fFather's fGeet
Let the sAmidewGays rCain and the cFrooked stGreet remainC G Am F G
Leave the wChimperGing dAmog in his Fcold keGnnel
Leave the dCead sGtarlAmet on her FpedesGtal
Leave the AmaciGd kCids in their Fgreen fishGbowls todayC G Am F G
Just leave the sCad gGuitAmar in its Fhardshell cGase
Leave the wCorriGed lAmook on your lFover's fGace
Let the orAmange GembeCrs in the fFireplGace remaiCnG Am F G
EveAmrything it must belong soFmewhere
A trAmain off in the distance, bicFycle chained to the stGairs
EAmverythGing it mCust belong somFewhere
I kGnow that now, that is why I'm staying here
C G Am F G
C G Am F
Leave the oCceaGn's rAmoar in the tFurquoise shGell
Leave the CwiGdowAmer in his pFrivate hGell
Leave the AmlibGerCty in that bFroken bGell todayC G Am F G
Leave the CepGic pAmoem on its yFellowed pGage
Leave the gCray GmacAmaw in its cFovered cGage
Let the trAmavelGing bCand on the iFntersGtate remaiCnG Am F G
EvAmerything it must belong someFwhere
Sound sAmtage in California, teleFvisions in Times SqGuare
EAmverythGing it mCust belong somFewhere
I kGnow that now that is why I'm staying hAmere
Yeah, I kFnow that now, that is wGhy I'm staying here
C G Am F G
C G Am F
Leave the sCecrGet tAmalks on the tFrundle bGed
Leave the gCardGen tAmools in that rFusted sGhed
Leave those Ambad iGdeaCs in your tFroubled hGead todaCyG Am F G
Leave the rCestlGess gAmhost in his Fold hGotel
Leave the hComelGess Amman in that cFardboard cGell
Let the pAmaintGed hoCrse on the cFarouGsel remaiCnG Am F G
EvAmerything it must belong somFewhere
Just like the gAmold around her finger or the siFlver in his hGair
EAmverythGing it mCust belong somFewhere
I kGnow that now, that's why I'm staying hAmere
I kFnow that now, that's wGhy I'm staying herCe
In tEmruth the forest hAmears each sound
Each blFade of grass as Git lies down
The woEmrld requires no auAmdience
No witFnesses, no wiFmtnesses
C G Am F G
C G Am F
Leave the oCld tGown dAmrunk on his wFooden stGool
Leave the aCutuGmn leAmaves in their sFwimming pGool
Leave the pAmoor bGlack chCild in his crFumbling scGhool todaCyG Am F G
Leave the CnovGeliAmst in his dFaydream tGune
Leave the CsciGentAmist in his RFubik's cGube
Let the tAmrue gGeniCus in the pFadded rGoom remaiCnG Am F G
Leave the hCorsGe's hAmair on the slFanted bGow
Leave the sClot mGachiAmnes on the rFiverbGoat
Leave the cAmauliGfloCwer in the cFasserGole todaCyG Am F G
Leave the hCot brGight tAmrash in the sFhopping maGlls
Leave the hCawks Gof Amwar in thFeir caGpitol
Let the AmorgaGn's mCoan in the caFthedrGal remaiCnG Am F G
EvAmerything it must belong somFewhere
They locked the DAmevil in the basement, threw God Fup into the aGir
EAmverythGing it mCust belong somFewhere
And you kGnow it's true, I wish you'd leave me hAmere
You kFnow it's true, why dGon't you leave me heAmre?E F
Lime Tree
I keep floatiGng down the river but the ocean never comeBms
SGince the operation I heard you're breathing just Cfor one
Now everAmything is imaginary, especially whaD7t you love
You lefAmt another message said it's done, It's donCeG
When I hear Gbeautiful music it's always from another timeBm
Old frieGnds I never visit, I remember whCat they're like
StanAmding on a doorstep full of nervous buttD7erflies
WAmaiting to be asked to come inside Just Ccome insideG
But I keep go-o-Amo-o-oing outD7
I can't sleeBmp next to a stranger Amwhen I'm coming downC
It's 8 aB7.m. my heart is beating too loud, Too louCdG
D7 Am B7
Don't be-eC-e-e so ama-a-a-azing or I'll miss you too much
I fB7elt something that I had never touchedC
GEverything gets smaller now the further that I goBm
Towards the mouth and Gthe reunion of the Known and the UnknownC
ConsidAmer yourself lucky if you think of it D7as home
Am
You can move mountains Gwith your misery if you don't, If you don't
It cGomes to me in fragments, even those still split Bmin two
Under the leaves Gof that old Lime Tree I stood examining the fruitC
Some were ripe anAmd some were rotten, I felt nauseous with the trD7uth
There will never Ambe a time more opportuneC G
So I just won't Ambe lateD7
The window closes, shBmock rolls over in a tiAmdal waveC
And all B7the color drains out of the frameC G
So pleaD7sed with a daydream Amthat now B7living is no goodC
I took off B7my shoes and walked into the woodsC
I felt loB7st and found with every step I tookC G
All chords in this song (19)
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Cassadaga
by Bright Eyes
Chords in this song · guitar
A
Bm
D
Dm
C#m
E
Em
C
G
Am
D7
G2
G3
G4
F
F#m7
F#
Fm
B7
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
Four Winds
Capo 3rd fret
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
If The Brakeman Turns My Way
Capo 4th fret
G C G
When panic grips your body and your heart is a hummingbird
G C D
Raven thoughts blacken your mind until you're breathing in reverse
Em D G D C
All your friends and sedatives mean well but make it worse
Em C Em C
Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt
Em D C D G
Better find yourself a place to level out
Em, D
G C G
Got a cricket for a conscience always looks the other way
G C D
A cocaine soul starts seeming like an empty cabaret
Em D G D C
Hey, where have all the dancers gone? Now the music doesn't play
Em C Em C
Tried to listen to the river but you couldn't shut your mouth
Em D C D G
Better take a little time to level out
C G
I never thought of running
C D
My feet just led the way
G
Mixed up Signals
C
Bullet Train
G D
Cars are switched out in the crazy rain
G C
I could meet you any place
D C D G
If the Brakeman turns my way
Em, D
G C G
All this automatic writing I have tried to understand
G C D
From a psychedelic angel who was tugging on my hand
Em D G D C
It's an infinite coincidence but it doesn't form a plan
Em C Em C
So I'm headed for New England or the Paris of the South
Em D C D G
Gonna find myself somewhere to level out
Em, D
G C G
Are your brothels full, Oh Babylon, with merry Middlemen?
G C D
Never peer out of their periscopes from those deep opium dens
Em D G D C
All this death must need a counterweight always someone born again
Em C Em C
First a mother bathes her child then the other way around
Em D C D G
The Scales always find a way to level out
C G
I tried to pass for nothing
C D
But my dreams gave me away
G
Mixed up Signals
C
Bullet Train
G D
People snuffed out in the brutal rain
G C
I could live to any age
D C D G
If the Brakeman turns my way
Am D7
It is an old world it's hard to remember
G C
Like a dime store mystery
Am D7
I'm a repeat first time offender
C D G
()
Who has rewritten history
G
Mixed up tea leaves
C
Phantom Pain
G D
Fuzzy logic in the crazy rain
G D
Getting better every day
D C D G
If the Brakeman turns my way
G
Mixed up Signals
C
Bullet Train
G D
Cars are switched out in the blinding rain
G C
He'll be smiling as he seals my fate
D C D G
When the Brakeman turns my way
Hot Knives
Capo 2nd fret
G G G C
Intro: 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
Make a Plan To Love Me
Capo 2nd Fret
Chords
G
320033
D
xx0232
Am
002210
Em
022000
G2
540055
G3
760077
G4
870077
Always hit G4 quickly, it's not played as long as any of the other chords
Intro:
G D G D Am D Am D G G2 G3 G4
G D G
I heard you're scheming new pyramids
G D Am
Another big idea to get you rich
Am D Am
(Make a Plan to love me)
Am D G
Make a plan to love me sometime soon
G G2 G3 G4 G
G D G
You said you had your foot in the door
G D Am
You buy and then you sell, you buy some more
Am D Am
(Make a Plan to love me)
Am D G
Make a plan to love me sometime soon
G G2 G3 G4 G
Em
Life is too short
Em
Death doesn't ask
C G
It don't owe you that
Em
Some things you lose
Em
You don't get back
C D
So just know what you have
Am D G
And make a plan to love me sometime soon
G G2 G3 G4 G
G D G D
Am G Am G
G G2 G3 G4 G
G D G
First you want to ride off into the sun
G D Am
Then you want to shoot straight to the moon
Am D Am
(Make a Plan to love me)
Am D G
Make a plan to love me sometime soon
G D G
When you are young the world is a ferris wheel
G D Am
I know we will grow old it is lovely, still
Am D G
Make a plan to love me sometime soon
Em
Life is too short
Em
To be a fool
C G
I don't owe you that
Em
Do what you feel
Em
Whatever is cool
C D
But I just have to ask
Am D
Will you make a plan to love me?
Am D
Will you make a plan to love me?
Am D G
Will you make a plan to love me sometime soon?
G G2 G3 G4 G
Soul Singer In The Session Band
Capo 1st fret
C F C C F G C F C F G F G C
C F C
See the soul singer in the session band
C F G
Shredded to ribbons beneath the microphone stand
C F C
Felt the quickness of pity like a flash in a pan
F G F G C
For the soul singer in the session band
(This chord progression is constant. So just keep playing it!)
Now a red carpet bagger makes a blackberry call
To the plastic pirhana in the city of salt
Wasted wheat paste campaign post no bills on the wall
You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault
See the soul singer in the session band
Shredded to ribbons beneath the microphone stand
Felt the quickness of pity like a flash in a pan
For the soul singer in the session band
I had a lengthy discussion about the power of myth
With a postmodern author who didn't exist
In this fictitious world, our reality twists
I was a hopeless romantic, now I'm just turning tricks
Just like that soul singer in the session band
Shredded confetti beneath the microphone stand
Saw the conflicts of interest, slipping cash in the hand
Of the soul singer in the session band
Now his room is on fire since he painted it red
There's a stranger, silk sequins at the foot of the bed
He's been to weddings and funerals, but he still never wept
Now sorrow is pleasure when you want it instead
Just like our soul singer in the session band
Wailed like an infant atop a white baby grand
We'll need every sand bag and every man
To save the soul singer in the session band
C F C C F G C F C F G F G C
Headlights or taillights, it's a flip of a coin
I've been coming and going since the day I was born
And I followed the bread crumbs but I never got home
I grew old in an instant, now I'm all on my own
Just like that soul singer in the session band
Shredded to nothing beneath the microphone stand
Saw the wave of the future through the crack of the dam
Drowned the soul singer in the session band
F G F G C
Bless the soul singer in the session band
classic Cars
Capo 2nd fret
intro: G x4
D G
She was a real royal lady, true patron of the arts
A Bm G
Said the best country singers die in the back of classic cars
D G
So if I ever got too hungry for a suitcase or guitar
D A D
To think of them all alone in the dark
D G
So I laid some nights beside her in a bed made for a queen
A Bm G
She said I kissed her different, that all the men her age were mean
D G
Gave me anything I wanted, Oh the generosity
D A D
I took all that I could, it was free
D G
Now the sky is a torn up denim and the clouds just splattered paint
A Bm G
It’s a room I’m renovating; it’s a name I gotta change
D G
If I get out of California I’m going back to my home state
D A D
To tell them all that I made a mistake
G
And I keep looking for that blindfold faith
A
Lighting candles to a cynical saint
D A Bm G
Who wants the last laugh at the fly trapped in the windowsill tape
A
You can go right out of your mind trying to escape
D A Bm G
From the panicked paradox of day to day
D A Bm G
If you can’t understand something then it’s best to be afraid
D G
The whole world it loves you if you’re a chic chameleon
A Bm G
Intersecting circles she could hang with anyone
D G
But when conducting business she would lie about where she’s from
D A D
Saying, "Life is how it is not how it was"
D G
I learned to listen felt like I was back at school
A Bm G
She’d talk forever about the phases of the moon
D G
Saying, "Everything is a cycle, you’ve got to let it come to you
D A D
And when it does, you will know what to do"
D G
Without even knowing I guess I took up her advice
A Bm G
Painted her front door it seemed a suitable goodbye
D G
It’s not that often but I think of her sometimes
D A D
Just something quaint, a couple ships in the night
G
And they keep moving at a glacial pace
A
Turning circles in a memory maze
D A Bm G
I made a new cast of the death mask that’s gonna cover my face
A
I had to change the combination to the safe
D A Bm G
Hide it all behind a wall let people wait
A D Bm G
And never trust a heart that is so bent it can’t break
Middleman
Capo 4th fret
Chords
F#m? x42200
F#m2? x02200
F#m7
x22400
G
320033
Bm
x24332
C
x32010
Intro
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
I traveled though the atmosphere
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
as a wall of feedback climbed
F#m2? F#m7
The pegs were gold,
F#m2? F#m7
the band was old,
F#m2?
they played,
F#m2? F#m?
in half time
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
Now every dream gets whittled down
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
just like every fool gets wise
F#m2? F#m7
You will never reap
F#m2? F#m7
of any seed
F#m2?
deprived
F#m2?
of sunlight
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
G Bm
So I have become the Middleman
G Bm
The gray areas are mine
C F G Bm
The in-between, the absentee
F#m2?
Is a beautiful disguise
F#m? F#m2? F#m7
etc.
Cleanse Song
Chords
D
xx0232
D7
xx0212
G
320033
A
002222
F#
133211
Verse:
D D7 G D
Hear the chimes did you know that the wind when it blows
G D A
it is older than Rome, and all of this sorrow
D D7 G D
D
See the new Pyramids down in old Manhattan from the roof of a friend
A
I watched an empire ending
F# D G
Heard it loud and long the rivers song time marching on
A
to a mad mans drum
Filler:
D D7 G A
D D7 G A
Chorus:
F# A
On a detox loft over glendale park over sidewalk chalk some rope red startle
G F#
So I'm up when I sleep on an Oxnard Beach with a fever of dreams that scare
me sober
A
Into saltless dinner
No One Would Riot For Less
Bm D A
Intro:
The picking pattern is easy:
Bm x4 D x4 A x4
E-------2-------------2-------------5--------|
B---3-----3---3---3-----3---2---5-----5---5--|
G-----------4-------------2-------------6----|
D-----4-------------0-------------7----------|
A-2---------------------------7--------------|
E--------------------------------------------|
Bm
Death may come, invisible
D
Or in a holy wall of fire
A
In the breath between the markers
Bm
On some black I-80 mile
Bm
From the madness of the governments
D
To the vengeance of the sea
A
Everything is eclipsed
Bm
By the shape of destiny
A
So love me now
Bm
Hell is coming
A
Could you do it now?
Bm
Hell is here
D
Do you see the sterile soil
Bm
Poisoned sky
A
Yellow water
G
The final scraps of life
Bm A
Bringing new tears
Bm G A
Instrumental: x2
D Bm
Wake, baby, wake
G
Leave that blanket around you
A
There's no where we're safe
D Bm
I'm leaving this place
G
But there's nothing
A
I'm planning to take
Bm
Just you
A
Just you
G
Just you
Then finish with F# Bm
Coat Check Dream Song???
I Must Belong Somewhere
Capo 3rd fret
C G Am F G
Intro:
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?
Lime Tree
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
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