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1. Eye of a Hurricane
2. Balmorhea
3. Berlin
4. Lady of the Ark
5. Gloom Girl
6. Trinidad Beach (Before I Ride)
7. Future Midcity Massacre
8. Black Mary
9. Pentecost
10. Dolls of Highland
11. Jane Beat the Reaper
12. Three Candles
1. Eye of a Hurricane (thanks to Bradmer12)
[Intro]
G E G E A C G
[Verse 1]
G E
Well you sleep in late but she’s up and out the window
G E
Said nothing’s gonna carry you to get where the wind blows
A C G
Sometimes, she wakes up in the middle of the night cries acid rain
A C G
She tried, to ride to fence of falling in love and going insane
A C G
Well you got to watch her spin around from the eye of a hurricane
[Chorus]
C G
Oh, she took you, you were terrified
C G
You're locked in man, your hands were tied
C
She leaned in just to crush your heart
G A C A
She plays it cool till the music starts then she’s wild
C A
She goes wild
C D
Ahoooo
[Interlude]
G E G E A C G
[Verse 2]
G E
Her mother was a demon but her daddy was the devil
G E
She fed scraps to a six-headed hound at the table
A C G
Then you charmed and I was blown away the skin in the skies of a mortal man
A C G
And darling I, I know I can’t take the fire but I can take your hand
[Bridge]
F
Then she burned you
[Chorus]
C G
And whispered: Come back when my daddy’s gone
C G
We’ll kiss down in the catacombs
C
You knew then that you had to go
G A C A
Her kiss was sweet her curse was cold and you tried
C A
Yeah you tried
C D
And you still try
[Interlude]
G E G E A C G F
(x2)
[Chorus]
C G
Oh, she took you, you were terrified
C G
You're locked in man, you’re in her sights
C
She leaned in when the music stopped
G A C A
She hit the street when the curtain dropped, you went wild
C A
You went wild
C D G
Ahoooo
2. Balmorhea
[Intro]
G C/G G C F/C C
[Verse 1]
G D C G
Balmorhea, well, what say you?
G D C D
Will you meet me there when I come passing through?
Em D C G
And if you find reason to hide, you know where you can come.
G D C G
That is, if I'm not the one you're still hiding from.
[Verse 2]
G D C G
But I pawned my faith there and I couldn't buy it back,
G D C D
When you said your life there on the stage was all an act.
Em D C G
Where the world saw you as a phoenix on the wind with wings of fire,
G D C
Oh, it's plain to me, you'll always be a sparrow,
Cm G
Singing softly on the wire.
C Cm G
Whoa-oh, a sparrow singing softly on the wire.
[Verse 3]
G D C G
Now the boys talk over and the girls chatter loud
G D C D
And your precious dirge upon the stage was so drowned out.
Em D C G
But I realized it's not the song or the stage that made you shine;
G D C
It's the way you speak, your soft mystique, and one day I,
Cm G
For a season, tried to make you mine.
C Cm G
One day I, for a season, tried to make you mine.
[Outro]
G C/G C F/C
3. Berlin
[Intro]
C G C G A B C F C Eb D
[Verse 1]
G A B C F C
Berlin, Berlin, she shines like a mirror ball
Eb D G
A hot day, protege
G A B C F C
she puts her highest heels back on
Eb D
Each dance could be the death of me
C G C
And I know she needs her money
G F C
And you know she digs her cat call
G D
You know they'll be coming
N.C
To watch her put it on and take it off
[Verse 2]
G A B C F C
Berlin, Berlin, the star of the dark burlesque show
Eb D G
She lives for its madness
G A B C F C
She swings herself around the pole slow
Eb D C
She slips out of a prom dress
C G C
And all the ladies wanna be her
G F C
And all the grown men wanna cry
G D
But then I only wanna kiss you
C
Just once maybe twice
[Bridge]
D
Then I could show you around
C
That is, if you'd wanna come
D
and I could play it cool
C
if I wasn't playin' it dumb
[Chorus]
G C
But Berlin she ain't the kind of woman
G C
To have one boy she calls
A C
She feeds from the touch of one lover
Eb D G C G
But can't resist the touch of them all
G C G C
Oh Berlin baby, I know I'd never be the kind you'd like
A C
I'll toss myself back into the corner
Eb D G C G
And I'll catch you every Sunday night
C G A B C F C Eb D
[Verse 3]
G A B C F C
Dollar bills, red lipstick on a cigarette butt
Eb D G
And trash-talk on her tongue
G A B C F C
I tried making eyes but guess what
Eb D C
That man came on his microphone
C G C
He said "you're in for a real treat"
G F C
And just like that she left my side
G D
She took the stage instead of taking me
C
And worked it all the live-long night
[Bridge]
D
And I could show you the town
C
If I knew where to begin
D
And I could show you out
C
If I wasn't on my way in
[Chorus]
G C
But Berlin she ain't the kind of woman
G C
To have one boy she calls
A C
She feeds from the touch of one lover
Eb D G C G
But can't resist the touch of them all
G C G C
Well, Berlin, baby, I know I'd never be the kind you'd like
A C
I'll toss myself back into the corner
Eb D G C G
And I'll catch you every Sunday night
4. Lady of the Ark
[Intro]
E
[Verse 1]
E B
Lady of the Ark I think I found a part,
F# E
I think I found a piece of what you used to be.
E B
Dozing in the back of a funeral car
F# E
and tangled in the blankets of your memory.
E B E
So why, why did I waste you?
B A E
If I'd have felt that love come to fall
B F# E
I couldn't save you, plunging to the earth as sweet as cannonball
E B E
Oh why why did I know you?
B A E
How did I know you would go in the end?
B
Fell out of the sky, you told me,
F# E
"Baby I'll be gone but when I'm back again, we'll try"
E B F# E
Try-yy-yy x 3
[Verse 2]
E B
Lady of the ark I think you were the start
F# E
I think you were the key with which his heart was closed.
E B
Not his only secret, not his only weakness,
F# E
I found him at the party feeling through her clothes.
E B E
And he cried, cried, "I'm wasted"
B A E
And he couldn't look you straight in the mouth
B F# E
But all that time he'd taken, even though he didn't watch the words come out
E B E
Oh why why did you leave me?
B A E
Why didn't you think it would rip me apart?
E B F# E
And we were always bleeding, inward toward the spirit when the soul departs the mind
E B F# E
Mi-ii-ii-nd x 3
[Bridge]
E B C#m E C#m E C#m E F# B B7
[Chorus]
E B E
And I could see your face now
B A E
Tripping sick with your ear to the wall
B E Em
You can't find the way down, my lady, my lady
E
'til you fall.
E B F# E
Fa-aa-aa-ll x 3
B
[Verse 3]
E B
Well, strange prodigal woman, she can't see it comin',
F# E
Bats her eyes at everybody one by one.
E B
And though she's movin' faster, still he's blowin' past her
F# E
Naked with his eye toward the morning sun.
E B E
But you're wild, wild, I've seen it
B A E
And he left you sick when you loved him the most.
B F# E
So now you're done and defeated, torn between the devil and the holy ghost.
E B E
Swing low, low, sweet heathen,
B A E
Swing for the rich and the rock 'n roll kids
E B
Who roam this Earth repeating
F# E
All this sin until this wicked world makes sense in time.
E B F# E
Ti-ii-ii-me x 3
B
5. Gloom Girl
[Intro]
[riff over A]
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A C#m D A A C#m D A D
[Verse 1]
A C#m D A
Well the gloom girl sank her teeth into the backbone of the night
A C#m D A
Yeah she passed to me the sweetest tea, the Colorado kind
D A D A
And her breath filled up the back room where the lonesome man was lost
D A E
They've sat and tried a thousand times to make her clothes come off
D A A7
Oh but this time the walls twisted and I found myself entwined
D E
With the gloom girl, true, she sang her blues in the depths of our sweet high
D A A7
Said I need a friend, I need a fix and I need to know it's you
B D A
But I feel like leavin' every season, every changing of the moon.
[Chorus]
D
Oh, gloom girl, deadly delicate
Drag hard just for the hell of it
A
I know but I don't
D
Feel right when you come around
Lips sealed, eyes glued to solid ground
A
I know, it's a sad show
D A
But I'll try next time she sees me
D A
To drink her venom dry
D A
And I'll always make it easy
B D
For the ones like her to leave me far behind
B D
Oh, the ones like her to leave you far behind
A C#m D A A C#m D A D
[Verse 2]
A C#m D A
Now some artist paints a portrait of her flower girl back East.
A C#m D A
Well, she talks in tongues, she bides her time and waits for that one beast
D A D A
Of her love to track her footsteps, 'cross the world and through the dark
D A E D
To taste your scream, to hear your blood, to rip you all apart
D A A7
But out here on the West Coast where the boats pass through all day
D E
There's a bus stop girl, her hair it curls and it falls into her face
D A A7
And the wind it blew her black dress and her eyes they blew my mind
B D A7
But just like you, her bus rolled through and it had no name, it had no time.
[Chorus]
D
Oh, gloom girl, deadly delicate
Split town just for the hell of it
A
I know but I don't
D
See your digits anymore
Spin coins across the kitchen floor
A
I know it's a sad show
D A
But I'll try next time I see you
D A
To tame my wicked tooth
D A
And I'll always make it easy
B D
For the ones like her that never see you through
[Outro]
B D
6. Trinidad Beach (Before I Ride)
[Intro]
D Dmaj7D7G Gm
(x 2)
[Verse 1]
D Dmaj7
I'm sorry for the way it went down
D7 G
I know it was the talk of the town
Gm D
So before I ride, let me apologize
G A7
For anything and everything now
[Verse 2]
D Dmaj7
For all the nights I left you in a dream
D7 G
Wrapped up by yourself in those dirty sheets
Gm D
And I couldn't touch you, no I couldn't tell you
G A7
Why it ended there at Trinidad Beach
[Outro]
G
Well the days were made nights
Gm
The cut was made clean
G Gm
So before I ride, my apologies
7. Future Midcity Massacre
[Intro]
D A7
[Verse 1]
D
Well I tried, my girl, to put you in a song
Bm
A tune to weep for when you're back
G
But every time the notes fall flat.
E
Your face is made, your bags are packed
G D
You were leaving before you were even gone
[Verse 2]
D
Spent lost years in the ring, we're fighting love
Bm
Now everything that came before
G
My wicked plea and your dreams of war
E
They hit me quick, they made me sore
G D A G
They taught me swinging hard is not enough
[Verse 3]
D
So meet up with your girls in New Orleans
Bm G
Tie your corset, paint your eyes and run wild through the Bourbon night
E
It always takes me by surprise
G D D7
How effortless your good time seems to be
[Chorus]
G Gm D D7
And I'll send you on your way without a kiss
G Gm E
Well, I never gave you all that much to miss
G
But, hell, what a time
G D A G
Now you're free babe and so am I
[Verse 4]
D
So move on with the mirror in your mind
Bm
Watch your style and your step
G
And when there's no reflection left
E
You'll find you've become someone else
G D
A stranger to yourself and all mankind
[Verse 5]
D
And she said this rum it just don't burn me going down
Bm
Not like it did when we were young
G
It felt like fire across our tongues
E
Just like love, that all went numb
G D D7
And the sweetest feelings found their own way out
[Chorus]
G Gm D D7
So you send me on my way with cheap red wine,
G Gm E
A bouquet of dead flowers and a thirst for twisted nights,
G
But, fuck, what a time!
G D B
And you're beautiful but you ain't mine
G Gm
You're free babe, so very free babe
D B G Gm D
And so am I, yeah so am I, yeah so am I
8. Black Mary
[Intro]
D CBm CD CBm C
(x 2)
G D D7
G
[Verse 1]
D
Black Mary bless your heart
Em
Born at the end of an age
G
When the punk girls fake all their grit
A
And they love in the very same way
D
But you were their jack knife queen
Em
Ransacked and agonized
G
By the virgin boys and their rabid swing
A
They scratch at your door in the dead of night
A7
Foaming at the mouth screaming take a sight
[Chorus]
Em
Or just leave
A
But she can't turn down a nice little kiss from a fool like me
Em
She's a thief
A
She stole every white flag, wet-dream wandering eye
A7
The boys fail to keep her every time they try
[Interlude]
D CBm CD CBm C
(x 2)
G D D7
G
[Verse 2]
D
Black Mary what's it like
Em
To dive in deep with the dead
G
To curse the fools and their whiskey jive
A
To join in on what you resent
D
The church says you've gone insane
Em
The nurse says you've gotta get out
G
But you're stuck inside where you pray for rain
A
You watch at your window at a heavy cloud
A7
But nothing ever falls in your lovesick drought
[Chorus]
Em
So it seems
A
But she can't turn down a nice little kiss from a fool like him
Em
She's a thief
A
She stole every white flag, wet-dream wandering eye
A7
The boys fail to keep her every time they try
Em
(wandering eyes, wandering eyes)
A
She stole every white flag, wet-dream wandering eye
Em
(wandering eyes, wandering eyes)
A
She takes what she gets when she leaves what she finds
Em
(wandering eyes, wandering eyes)
A
She stole every white flag, wet-dream wandering eye
A7
The boys fail to keep her every time they try
[Outro]
D G D G
D G
But it's you that I hate to leave
D G
Oh you know that I'll fall apart
D Bm A G
Oh it's through you I learned to love the brightest side of the dark
9. Pentecost
[Intro]
C F C
[Verse 1]
C E
Pentecost put you in a headlock
E Am
I know we never really turned out right
Am D7
But good God, I'd love to see them try
C E
To break down the drugs, the bad dreams
E Am
Run 'round and sum it up into one prayer
Am D7
Reach out but nothing's ever there, there
[Chorus]
F C
So tell me what you've gotta do
E F
Tell me why why why why why
F C
Would you push the bullet through
E F
Through your mah mah mah mah mind
F C
Tell me what they sold to you
E Am D7
At the altar, you were altered into white
[Verse 2]
C E
Dear Todd, lay her in your bedroom
E Am
Cold sweat, run your fingers through her hair
Am D7
Black out, see if the clergy cares
C E
To turn down the sacred station
E Am
I know the voices always seem so strange
Am D7
They freak out but nothing seems to change, change
[Chorus]
F C
So tell me what you've gotta do
E F
Tell me why why why why why
F C
Would you push the bullet through
E F
Through your mah mah mah mah mind
F C
Tell me what they sold to you
E Am D7
At the altar, you were altered by the light
Am
And it was as dark as the demon in your mind
[guitar solo]
[Bridge]
C E
Dear Todd, Dear Todd
E Am Bb
Oh don’t fake it I know that you’re not
F
What you used to be
D7
But you’re as gold as the Odyssey
C E
Dear ghost, dear ghoul
E Am Bb
Let me take all that weight off of you
[Outro]
F D7
We can go downtown, take the one in the chamber out
F D7
We can go downtown, take the one in the chamber out
F D7
Yeah, we can go downtown
F D7
We can go downtown, take the one in the chamber out
10. Dolls of Highland
[Intro]
A F#m
[Verse 1]
A F#m
We used to dance, we used to do it all night
F#m D
You and me and the dolls of Highland
D A
They'd crank that radio loud
[Verse 2]
A F#m
The jester choked on his jokes in the spotlight
F#m D
The poet burned all of last year's pages
D A
And we watched the bottom fall out
[Chorus]
E D A7
But oh I've never set sight on a siren so bright
A D
On a songbird so deranged
E D
And she said you must be new to the Shreveport city blues
E D A
She said these days, her nights were getting strange
11. Jane Beat the Reaper
[Intro]
A E
[Verse 1]
E A
Well stranger things are happening here
E
I see the ghosts now in broad daylight
Eb D
And while the midnight boys continue their songs
A E
The reaper rolls his eyes
[Verse 2]
E A
Without a shadow of a doubt,
E
He says this party is a pale view
Eb D
Of what time slowly did to them
A A7
and what I'm gonna do to you.
[Chorus]
D E
But Jane beat that reaper with a broomstick hard
A D
Ran that bag of bones across the whole front yard
A D A
And she screams, no one takes a party from me
D A
no one takes a party from me
D E F#m B
no one takes a party from Jane
D E A E
no one takes a party from Jane
[Verse 3]
E A
She wore medallions on a string
E
She said they warded off the boredom
Eb D
Of life alone and the constant sting
E
Of what she was before him.
[Verse 4]
E A
But stranger things have happened here
E
She disappeared with every daybreak
Eb D
Her clockwork crisis never seemed so clear
A A7
Her strung-out strife never seemed so fake
[Chorus]
D E
But Jane dropped those trinkets in the ole Grand Isle,
A D
And they sank with all her misery, her vacant smile.
A D A
Still she pleads, who can take this hurt out of me
D A
who can take this hurt out of me
D E F#m B
But nothing takes the urge out of Jane
D E A A7
Oh nothing takes the hurt out of Jane
[Bridge]
C#m D
And her fate, she knows, is to wait so close
F E D
at the gates of Hell until the day he calls
F E
so she spends her time pacing Purgatory
D
that's all, yeah that is all
[Chorus]
D E
Well she traded all her riches in for dime store rags
A D
Her mama tried her best to fill those shopping bags
A D A
Still she screams, please don't waste your money on me
D A
please don't waste your money on me
D E F#m B
'Cause nobody could buy love from Jane
D E F#m B
She'll party in her rags all the same
D E D A
Well no one takes the party from Jane
12. Three Candles
[Intro]
A D A D Bm F#m D A
[Verse]
A D A D
Take it away, I can't stand to see
Bm F#m D A
You holding him the way you held me
A D A D
It was bound to taste right, it was bound to be brief
Bm F#m D A
And as for me babe I guess I'm bound to leave
[Verse 2]
A D A D
Fall to the floor, your stain on my jeans
Bm F#m D A
And three hundred miles between me and Orleans
A D A D
I'll think of you babe, I give you my word
Bm F#m D A
I'll think of you babe while I'm kissing her
A D
[Verse 3]
A D A D
'Cause Leanne cut ties and Jay Bird split town
Bm F#m D A
And Allie says I shouldn't be hanging 'round
A D A D
So what's there to hope and who's there to please
Bm F#m D A
And what's there to love on long nights like these
Bm F#m D A
Aw who's there to love on dead long nights like these
[Interlude]
A D A D Bm F#m D A
[Verse 4]
A D A D
A warm shot of rye, straight to the head
Bm F#m D A
And three candles lit at the Royal Frenchmen
A D A D
It's hard to recall just what I said wrong
Bm F#m D A
It's hard to recall why you wanted me gone
A D
[Verse 5]
A D A D
So are you passing out? Or are you leaning in?
Bm F#m D A
That wasted farewell, I'm too drunk to pretend
A D A D
That you gave him your hand, you sweet southern belle
Bm F#m D A
But all that you had to give me was hell
Bm F#m D A
But all that you had to give me was hell
[Interlude]
A D A D Bm F#m D A
[Verse 6]
A D A D
So take it away, I can't stand to see
Bm F#m D A
You kissing him the way you kissed me
A D A D
He's bound to taste right, he's bound to make sense
Bm F#m D A
But he'll never kiss you the way that I did
Bm F#m D A
No he'll never kiss you the way that I did
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1. Eye of a Hurricane 2. Balmorhea 3. Berlin 4. Lady of the Ark 5. Gloom Girl 6. Trinidad Beach (Before I Ride) 7. Future Midcity Massacre 8. Black Mary 9. Pentecost 10. Dolls of Highland 11. Jane Beat the Reaper 12. Three Candles 1. Eye of a Hurricane (thanks to Bradmer12) [Intro] G E G E A C G [Verse 1] [Chorus] [Interlude] G E G E A C G [Verse 2] [Bridge] [Chorus] [Interlude] G E G E A C G F (x2) [Chorus] 2. Balmorhea [Intro] G C/G G C F/C C [Verse 1] [Verse 2] [Verse 3] [Outro] G C/G C F/C 3. Berlin [Intro] C G C G A B C F C Eb D [Verse 1] N.C To watch her put it on and take it off [Verse 2] [Bridge] [Chorus] C G A B C F C Eb D [Verse 3] [Bridge] [Chorus] 4. Lady of the Ark [Intro]
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