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	C	F	C
We must ta	lk in every telephone Get ea	ten off th	e web

	C	F	G
We must ri	p out all the epilogues in the	books that we have re	ad

	C	F
And i	n the face of every criminal Stra	pped firmly to a chair

	C	G	C
We mu	st stare, we mus	t stare, we mus	t stare

	C	F	C
We must	take all of the medicines too ex	pensive now t	o sell

	C	F	G
Set f	ire to the preacher who is	promising us h	ell

	C	F
And in	the ear of every anarchist th	at sleeps but doesn't dream

	C	G	C
We mu	st sing, we must s	ing, we must s	ing

It'll go like this:

	F	G
Whil	e my mother	waters plants

	C	F
My fath	er loads his gu	ns

	F	G
He says d	eath will give us	back to god

	Am	F	G
Just li	ke this setting s	un is	returned to this lonesome ocean

	C	F	C	F
And then they splashed into the deep blue	se	a

	C	F	G	C	F	C	C	G	C
I	t was a	wonderful	splash

	C	F	C
We must bl	end into the choir Sing	ecstatic with the	whole

	C	F	G
We must mem	orize nine numbers and de	ny we have a s	oul

	C	F
And in this en	dless race for property and	privilege to be one

	C	G	C
We m	ust run, we mu	st run, we m	ust run

	C	F	C
We must ha	ng up in the belfry where the b	ats and moonlight l	augh

	C	F	G
We must s	tare into a crystal ball and	only see the	past

	C	F
And in th	e caverns of tomorrow With just our flashli	ghts and our love

	C	G	C
We must p	lunge, we mu	st plunge, we mus	t plunge

	C
	And then we'll get down there to the very bottom of everything

And we'll see it, we'll see it, we'll see it

	F	G	C	F
Oh my	mornings coming b	ack The wh	ole world's wakin	g up

	F	G	Am	F
In t	he city buses are	swimming past	I'm happy jus	t because

	G	C	F	C
I	found out I'm really no one

We Are Nowhere and It's Now

Capo 2

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Em

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D

(play this if you dont have a capo: A C# F# Em A C# F# Em)

	G	Bm	Em	D	G	Bm	Em	D
	If you hate the	taste of	wine	, why do you d	rink it	till your	blin	d

	G	Bm	C	D	Em
And if	you swear	that there's no	truth and who	cares, how come you	say it

	D
like you're ri	ght

	G	Bm	Em	D	G	Bm	Em	D
Why are yo	u scared to d	ream o	f Go	d, when it's s	alvation	that you	want

	G	Bm	C	D	Em
You see, s	tars that	clear have	been dead for	years, but the i	dea just lives

	D
	on

	G	Bm	Em	D	G	Bm	Em	D
	In our wheels th	at roll a	roun	d, as we move o	ver the	grou	nd

	G	Bm	C	D	Em	D
and all	day it se	ems we've been	in betwe	en, a pa	st and future to	wn

	Em	D
We are	nowhere and it's no	w

	Em	D
We are	nowhere and it's no	w

	C	D
In like	a ten minute dream in the	passenger seat

	G	D	Emm
While the world wa	s flying by

	Emm	D
I h	aven't been gone very l	ong but it seems like a lifetime

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Bm

G

Em

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D

	Am	D
	I been sleeping so	strange at night

	Am	D
	Side effects they don't a	dvertise

	Am	D
	I been sleeping so	strange

	Am	D
	With a head full of pe	sticide

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	G	Bm	Em	D	G	Bm	Em	D
	I got no plans a	nd too mu	ch t	ime, I feel	to rest	less to un	wind

	G	Bm	C	D	Em	D
I'm alw	ays lost i	n thought a	s i walk the bl	ock to my favo	rite neon-s	ign

	G	Bm	Em	D	G	Bm	Em	D
	Where the waitre	ss looks conc	erne	d, but s	he never	says a w	ord

	G	Bm	C	D	Em	D
Just tu	rns the ju	kebox on an	d we hum alo	ng and i smi	le back at h	er

	G	Bm	Em	D	G	Bm	Em	D
	And my friend co	mes after	wor	k, when the fe	atures s	tarts to b	lurr

	G	Bm	C	D
She say	s: "These	bars are fi	lled with things tha	t kill, but now you

	Em	D
p	robably should have le	arned"

	Em	D
Did you fo	rget that yellow	bird?

	Em	D
How could you fo	rget that yell	ow bird

	C	D
S	he took a small silverese and pinned	it on to me,

	G	D	Em
and said	this one will	bring you	luck

	Em	D
I don't	know if it's true, but i	keep it for good luck

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Old Soul Song (For The New World)

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D Dsus(000230) Bm

Grey like new day leaks through the window

	G	A	D
and some old	song comes on the	alarm clock	radio.

	D	Dsus	Bm
	We	walk the forty blocks to the midd	le

	G	A	D
of the p	lace we heard where ev	erything woul	d be

	G	A	D
and there were b	arracades to ke	ep us off the s	treet,

	Bm	G	Em	A
but the	crowd kept pushing f	orward unt	il they swallowed the pol	ice.

	Em	G
Yeah, they went	wild yeah, they went w	ild.

	Em	G
Yeah, they went	wild yeah, they went w	ild.

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	D	Dsus	Bm
We	le	ft before the dust had time to se	ttle

	G	A	D
and all the b	roken glass s	wept off the av	enue.

	D	Dsus	Bm
On the w	ay	home I held your camera like a bibl	e,

	G	A	D
wishing s	o bad that it hel	d some kind of tr	uth.

	G	A	D
And I stood ne	rvous next to yo	u in the da	rk room,

	Bm	G	Em	A
you dropped the	paper in the w	ater and it	all begins to	bloom.

	Em	G
Yeah, they went w	ild yeah, they went wi	ld.

	Em	G
Yeah, they went w	ild yeah, they went wi	ld.

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Em

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	G	A	D
Just wh	en I get so lon	esome I can't s	peak,

	Bm	G	Em	A
I see some f	lowers on a h	ill side, like a w	all of new	TVs.

	Em	G
Yeah, they went w	ild. yeah, they went	wild.

	Em	G
Yeah, they went	wild. yeah, they went w	ild.

	D	Em
Yeah, they went wi	ld. yeah, they went	wild.

	G	Em
Yeah, they went w	ild. yeah, they went	wild.

Lua

	G	G2	G	G2	C	C2	C	C2
well i	know that i	t is freezing but i th	ink we h	ave to walk

	G	G2	G	G2	C	C2	C	C2
I keep	waving to the	taxis they keep tur	ning the	ir lights o	ff

	Am	D	Dsus2	D	Dsus2
but	julie knows a party at some actor's westside	loft

	Am	C	Am	D	G	G2	G	G2
supplies are	endless in the	evening by	the morni	ng they'l	l be	gone

	G	G2	G	G2	C	C2	C	C2
When eve	rything gets lone	ly I can	be my o	wn best fri	en	d

	G	G2	G	G2	C	C2	C	C2
I'l	l grab a coffee a	nd the p	aper; ha	ve my own c	on	ver	sa	tions

	Am	D	Dsus2	D	Dsus2
Wit	h the sidewalk and the pigeons and my window r	eflect	ion

	Am	C	Am	D	G	G2	G	G2
The mask I p	olish in the ev	ening, by	the morni	ng looks	like	shit

Am7(002213) G

and i know you have a heavy heart i can feel it when we kiss

Am7 G Dsus(000230)

and many men stronger than me have thrown their backs out tryin to lift it

	Am	Em	G	D	C
but	me im not a ga	mble you can	count on	me to spli	t

	Am	C	Am	D	G	G2	G	G2
the love i	show you in the	evening by the morn	ing won'	t exi	st

	G	G2	G	G2	C	C2	C2
You're looking sk	inn	y like a model with your eyes	al	l painted	b	lac	k

	G	G2	G	G2	C	C2	C2
You just keep goi	ng	to the bathroom always say yo	u'l	l be righ	t	bac	k

	Am	D	Dsus2	D	Dsus2
Wel	l it takes one to know one, kid, I think you'v	e got	it bad

	Am	C	Am	D	G	G2	G	G2
But what's s	o easy in the e	vening, by	the morn	ing is su	ch a	drag	.

	G	G2	G	G2	C	C2	C2
I've got a flask	ins	ide my pocket we can share it	on	the trai	n

	G	G2	G	G2	C	C2	C2
If you promise to	st	ay conscious I will try and d	o t	he same

	Am	D	Dsus2	D	Dsus2
We	might die from medication, but we sure killed	all th	e pain

	Am	C	Am	D	G	G2	G	G2
But what was	normally in th	e evening, by th	e morning see	ms in	sane.

	Am7	G
And I'm	not sure what the trouble was that s	tarted all of this

Am7 G Dsus(000232)

The reasons have run away but the feeling never did

	Am	Em	G	D	C
It's not some	thing I would r	ecommend, bu	t it is o	ne way to l	ive

	Am	C	Am	D	G	G2	G	G2
Cause what is	simple in the m	oonlight, by	the mor	ning never	is

	Am	C	Am	D	Em
What's so	simple in the mo	onlight, now its	so compl	icated	.

	Am	C	Am	C	G
What's so	simple in the moon	light, so simpl	e in the mo	onlight

Trail Under Water

Capo 4

A

	A	E
You were	born inside of a	raindrop

	D	A
I watched you	falling to your d	eath

	A	E
And the su	n, well it could not	save you

	D	A
It'd fallen	down too, the streets ar	e wet

	A	E
Body of wa	ter, toxic and t	imeless

	D	A
The Atlantic	ocean, New York	skyline

	A	E
I always get l	ost when I leave the	village

	D	A
So I couldn't com	e meet you in Brooklyn l	ast night

	A	E
But I sing	glory for my l	owest

	D	E
And I will say pe	ace to the people	at me

	A	E
While the w	orld waits for an e	xplosion

	D	A
That instant of life	that wipes that slat	e clean

	F#	E
So	don't be fo	oled

	F#	E
So	don't be li	ed to

	C#	F#	B	E
Lov	e was	always	cr	uel

	F#	E
Do	n't act stra	nge

	F#	E
Don	't be a str	anger

	C#	F#	B	E
It	happe	ned to	me	, now it's happening to you

	D
But if you take that tr	ain underwater then we could talk it through

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D

A

	A	E
Well if I could ta	me all of my d	esires

	D	A
Wait out the	weather that howls in m	y brain

	A	E
Because it s	eems that it's always	changing

	D	A
The wind's ind	ecision, the sorrowf	ul rain

	A	E
I was a pos	tcard, I was a rec	ord

	D	A
I was a cam	era until I went	blind

	A	E
Now I'm r	iding all over this i	sland

	D	E
Looking for so	mething to open my	eyes

	A	E
Well we still sing	glory from a hi	ghrise

	D	A
And I will say t	hanks if you're pouring my d	rinks

	A	E
While the wo	rld waits for an	explosion

	D	A
That moment in t	ime when we are set f	ree

	F#	E
So d	on't stay	mad

	F#	E
Jus	t let some	time pass

	C#	F#	B	E
And i	n the	morn	ing	you'll wake feeling new

	F#	E
And	if I d	on't come back

	F#	E
I m	ean, if I get	sidetracked

	C#	F#	B	E
It's	only '	caus	e I	wanted to

	D
Keeping up	with the moon on an all night avenue

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A

First Day of my Life

Intro:

C E Am F G C x2(Pick)

	C	E	Am
	This is the fi	rst day of my li	fe

	F	G	C
	Swear I was bo	rn right in the do	orway

	C	E	Am
	I went out in the ra	in, suddenly everything ch	anged

D7(000212) G

They're spreading blankets on the beach

	C	E	Am
	Yours is the fi	rst face that I sa	w

	F	G	C
	Think I was bl	ind before I me	t you

	C	E	Am
	Don't know where I am	, don't know where I've	been

	D7	G
But I know wh	ere I want to go

	C	G	Am
So	I thought I'	d let yo	u know

	F	G
That thes	e things take f	orever

	C	C/B	Am
I	especi	ally a	m slow

D2(003230) C

But I realized how I need you and I wondered if I could come home

C G Am D2(003230) F2(006560) F?(006568)

	C	E	Am
	I remember the ti	me you drove all ni	ght

	F	G	C
	Just to me	et me in the mo	rning

	C	E	Am
	I thought it was st	range, you said everything ch	anged

	D7	G
You felt a	s if you'd just wok	e up

	C	E	Am
And you sai	d, "This is th	e first day of m	y life.

	F	G	C
	I'm glad I didn't di	e before I me	t you.

	C	E	Am
	Now I don't ca	re, I could go anywh	ere with you,

	D7	G
And I'	d probably be	happy."

	C	G	Am
So if yo	u want t	o be wit	h me

	F	G
With thes	e things there's n	o telling

	C	C/B	Am
We'll jus	t have t	o wait an	d see

	D2	C
But I'd rather b	e working for a paycheck than waiting to win the	lottery

	D2	C
Besides, m	aybe this time its different, I mean I really think you	like me

E Am D2 F2 F? C E Am D2 F2 F? C

Another Travelin Song

Intro

B

	B	E
i	'm changin all my strings i'm gonna write another travelin' song

	B	F#
about all	the million highways and the cities at the break of dawn

	B	E
i guess the best th	at i can do now is pretend that i done nothin wrong

	F#	E	B
and to dream ab	out a train thats gonna take back where	i belong

	B	E
The ocean s	peaks and spits and I can feel it from the interstate.

	B	F#
and I'm sc	reaming my brother on a cell phone, he is far away.

	B	E
I'm saying nothing	in the past or the future ever will feel like today.

	F#	E	B
I tell him park	it in the alley and just hoping that o	ur shit is safe.

	E	B
So I go ba	ck and forth forever

	E	B
All my thou	ghts they come in pairs

	E	F#
Oh, I will,	I won't, I doubt, I don'	t

	C#m	E	F#	B
I'm not	surprised, and I never feel quit	e prep	ared

Now I'm hunched over a typewriter, I guess you'd call it painting in a cave.

And there's a word I can't remember and a feeling I cannot forsake.

And now my ashtray's overflowing, I'm still staring at a clean, white page.

	F#	E	B
The morning's at my	window and she's sending me to bed again.

	B	E
Well I dreame	d of dark on the horizon, I dreamed of desert where the	dead lay down.

	B	F#
I dreamed a prosti	tuted child touching an old man in a fast food crowd.

	B	E
Oh yeah I dreamt th	e ship was sinking there were people screaming all around

	F#	E	B
and I awoke to	my alarm clock, it was a pop song, it w	as playing loud.

	E	B
So I wi	ll find my fears and face the	m,

	E	B
Or I will	cower like a dog.

	E	F#
I'll kick and	scream or kneel in glee,

	C#	E	F#	B
I'll f	ight like hell to hide that I'm	givi	ng up!

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B

B

Landlock Blues

Capo 3

	C	G	C
If you	walk away,	I'll walk awa	y

	C	G	C
First tel	l me which roa	d you will take

	Am	G	C	Am
I don't	want to risk o	ur paths crossing	some day

	C	G	C
So you wa	lk that way, I'll	walk this way

	C	G	C
And the	future ha	ngs over our h	eads

	C	G	C
And it mo	ves with each	current event

	Am	G	C	Am
Until i	t falls all aro	und like a cold st	eady rain

	C	G	C
Just stay	in when it's loo	king this way

	C	G	C
And the m	oon's laying low	in the sky

	C	G	C
Forcing e	verything metal t	o shine

	Am	G	C	Am
And the	sidewalk holds	diamonds like the	jewelry sto	re case

	C	G	C
They argu	e walk this way,	now walk this way

	C	G	C
And Lau	ra's aslee	p in my bed

	C	G	C
As I'm le	aving she wake	s up and says

	Am	G	C	Am
"I drea	med you were ca	rried away on the	crest of a w	ave

	C	G	C
Baby don'	t go away, com	e here"

	C	G	C
And there	's kids playin	g guns in the stre	et

	C	G	C
And ones	pointing his t	ree branch at me

	Am	G	C	Am
So I pu	t my hands up I	say "enough is en	ough,

	C	G	C
If you wa	lk away, I'll	walk away"

And he shot me dead

	Am	G	C
I	found a li	quid cure

	Am	G	C
From	my landlocked b	lues

	F	G	C	Am
It'll pass	away like a	slow par	ade

	C	G	C
It's leaving	but I don't know ho	w soon

C

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Am

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Am

C

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C

	C	G	C
And the world	's got me dizzy	again

	C	G	C
You think after	22 years I'd be u	sed to the spin

	Am	G	C	Am
And it on	ly feels worse	when I stay in	one place

	C	G	C
So I'm always p	acing around or walki	ng away

I keep drinking the ink from my pen

And I'm balancing history books up on my head

But it all boils down to one quotable phrase

If you love something, give it away

A good woman will pick you apart

A box full of suggestions for your possible heart

But you may be offended and you may be afraid

But don't walk away, don't walk away

We made love on the living room floor

With the noise in background of a televised war

And in the deafening pleasure I thought I heard someone say

"If we walk away, they'll walk away"

But greed is a bottomless pit

And our freedom's a joke

We're just taking a piss

And the whole world must watch the sad comic display

If you're still free start running away

Cause we're coming for you!

C

G

C

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Am

G

C

Am

C

G

C

I've grown tired of holding this post

I feel more like a stranger each time I come home

So I'm making a deal with the devils of faith

Saying "let me walk away, please"

You'll be free child once you have died

From the shackles of language and immeasurable time

And then we can trade places, play musical grace

Till then walk away, walk away

	Am	G	C
S	o I'm u	p at daw	n

	Am	G	C
Putt	ing on my	shoes

	F	G	C	Am
I just wan	t to make a	clean esc	ape

	C	G	C
I'm leaving	but I don't know	where to

	C	G	C
I know I'm	leaving but I don'	t know where to

Poison Oak

A Dsus3(000230) or (000220) A Dsus3

	A	Dsus3
poi	son oak some boyho	od bravery

	A	Dsus3
when a telephone	was a tin can on a	string

F#/A(202220) E

and i fell asleep with you still talking to me

	A	Dsus3	A	Dsus3
you s	aid you weren't afrai	d to die

	A	Dsus3
in polaroids yo	u were dressed in womans clo	thes

	A
were you m	ade ashamed?

	Dsus3
why'd you lock them in the	drawer?

	F#/A	E
well i don	't think that i ever loved you than wh	en

	A
	you turned away

	Dsus3
when you	slammed the door

Fm7(200230)

when you stole the car

Em7(020230)

drove towards mexico

	A
and you wrote	bad checks

	Dsus3
just to fill yo	ur arm

	Fm7
i was young enoug	h

	Em7
i still believed	in war

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Fm7

A

Fm7

E Fm7(200230)

but let the poets cry themselves to sleep

	E	Fm7
an a	ll there tearful words will turn back into s	team

	A	Dsus3
me i'm a single	cell on the serpents tongue

	Fm7	Em7
theres a mud	dy field where the garden wa	s

	A
well im glad	you got away

	Dsus3
but i'm still st	uck out here

	Fm7
my clothes are	soaking wet

	Em7
from your b	rothers tears

A

Fm7

A

Fm7

	E	Fm7
and i neve	r thought this life was possi	ble

	E
your the yellow	bird

	Fm7
that i've been waiting f	or

	A
the end of paralys	is

	D
i was a statuette

	Fm7
now i'm drunk as h	ell

	Em7
on a piano benc	h

	A
and when i	press the keys

	D
its all gets rever	sed

	Fm7
the sound of	loneliness

	Em7
makes me happ	ier

A

Fm7

A

Fm7

Road to Joy

Capo 1

Intro

C

Verses:

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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

	Em	Am
I read th	e body count out of the paper

	F	G	C
And now it	's written all	over my face

	Em	Am
No one ev	er plans to sleep out in the gutter

	F	G	C
Sometimes	that's just the most comf	ortable place

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 aske	d to fight a war that's over nothing

	F	G	C
It's best t	o join the side that	's gonna win

	Em	Am
And no one's sure ho	w all of this got started

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But we're gonna	make them goddam certain how	its gonna end

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Oh ya we will,	oh ya we will!

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	Well I could have been a famous singer

If I had someone else's voice

But failure's always sounded better C C C C

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

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