Cape Canaveral chords by Conor Oberst And The Mystic Valley Band

• Capo on 2nd

Intro:
G
G
Oh, oh, oh brother totem pole
G
I saw your legends lined up
                              Am
And I never felt more natural



 Em              Am     Em
Apart
I just came     apart
G
Please, please, please sister Socrates
G

You always answer with a question
                                    Am
Show some kindness to a petty thief
   Em          Am      Em
Forgive, you did    forgive
          C                    D
Watch the migrants smoke in the old orange grove
        G                    C
And the red rocket blaze over Cape Canaveral
              C                D
You’ve been a father to me in 1960’s speak
        G                C
Give me comatose joy like rerun TV
           Am
While the mountain’s side was shining
                          G
Wild colors of my destiny
               Am
I watched your face age backwards
                             G
Changing shape in my memory
              Am
You taught me victory’s sweet
                             G
Even deep in the cheap seats
G G Am Em Am Em
G
Hey, hey, hey mother interstate
G
Can you deliver me from evil
                                     Am
Make me honest make me wedding cake
 Em         Am    Em
Atone
I will  atone
G
Wait, wait, wait mighty outer-space
G
All that flying saucer terror
                               Am
Made me lazy drinking lemonade
  Em            Am           Em
A waste, it just went     to waste
         C                 D
Like the Freon cold out the hotel door
       G                     C
Or the white rocket fade over Cape Canaveral
              C                  D
You’ve been a daughter to me your buried shoe-box grief
            G                    C
I felt your poltergeist love like savannah heat
          Am
While the waterfall was pouring
                            G
Crazy symbols of my destiny
               Am
I watched your face die backwards
                         G
Little baby in my memory
            Am
You told me victory's sweet
                             G
Even deep in the cheap seats
C                   Em      C
And you don’t judge me
                D       C
That’s not your style
                   Em
But I won’t see you
      Bm                C
for a little while
               Em              C
And there’s no worries, oh lord
          D         C
Who's got time
           Em          D
All these changes gonna fill your mind
         C                  D
Like the citrus glow off the old orange grove
       G                    C
Or the red rocket blaze over Cape Canaveral
            C                     D
It’s been a nightmare to me Some 1980’s greed
         G                    C
Gives me parachute dreams Like old war movies
          Am                                                G
While the universe was drawing perfect circles for infinity
              Am
I watched the stars get smaller
                           G
Tiny diamonds in my memory
            Am
I know that victory is sweet
                             G
Even deep in the cheap seats