At Home With The Animals chords by Ryan Adams

Verse :
         C         F      C
While you were reading the black bible in the sun
      Am            F
I was half drunk out the window of a moving city bus
 G         C      F
Wilder than the devil, like a tiger in the brush
G        C      F
Louder than an atom bomb that only you could hush
G         C          F
Spinning like the Earth and Moon, but never really touched
  G        C       F
Alone, the ways I wanted to be loved
G        C F C
You were not enough
                F        C
While your head was bowed and hands praying to God
    Am                 F
I was swinging from the chandeliers like some endangered animal
 G        C        F
Somewher? in New Orleans on the run
G      C      F
Lik? I just won the lottery, with God-knows-what inside of me
G        C      G
Hair a mess and shoelaces undone
  G       C     F
Of all the ways I wanted you
 G        C F C
You were not the one

Verse :
         C        F        C
While they were teaching you how Moses split the sea
       Am     G     F
I was in an airplane bathroom doing speedballs off the sink
G       C     F
High as any angel moving at the speed of sound
G        C    F
Someplace over Germany, moving through the clouds
G         C        F
Winking back at stewardesses, supplying me with ale
G           C       F
Big-hooped golden earrings staying at the same hotel
  G        C       F
Of all the ways I wanted you to hold me
G        C F C
I could not be held
        C        F       C
While you were waiting for the doctor in the chair
    Am                F
I was stoned riding the cyclone at the Onslow County Fair
G        C        F
The stars above us sparkled like they didn't pay the bill
G          C        F
Smokes behind the haunted house, chugging stolen beers
G       C      F
Cotton candy kisses underneath the ferris wheel
G          C       F
Of all the ways you wanted me to feel
G       C
I could never heal
        C       F       C
While you were waiting in the depot for the train
    Am              F
I was asleep on stolen cargo in the back of someone's plane
G         C       F
Halfway back from Florida from Cuba in the rain
G        C       F
Low enough to feel the water from the spraying waves
   G        C       F
Underneath the radar hauling crates of pure *******
 G        C      F
Hung over and laughing high above The Everglades
G         C        F
Of all the ways I wanted to be tamed
G       C
I was just insane



Verse :
        C        F       C
While you were waiting in the lobby for your man
   Am             F
I was working at the circus as a garbage man
G         C       F
Remembering that winter you were in a long black coat
     G        C    F
I'm at home with the animals, knife at my own throat
   G          C        F
You hear the bells of freedom, but the chains all just say "nope"
  G       C        F
If I was the Titanic, you were pink clouds and blue smoke
G        C        F
Rising over Hemingway and in an old man's fishing boat
  G         C       F
Of all the things I wanted you to be
  G         C         F
Of all the things I wish that you were now
G        C F C F G C F C Am F
You were not around
G        C F C
You were not around  ,