Rain King Thunder Road chords by Counting Crows

Chords with lyrics

[verse]
D MajorD           A augmentedA
When I think of heaven
B minorBm     A augmentedA         D MajorD
Deliver me in a black-winged bird
A augmentedA     B minorBm   A augmentedA      D MajorD        A augmentedA
I think of flying down into a sea of pens and feathers
B minorBm      A augmentedA       D MajorD         A augmentedA
And all other instruments of faith and sex and God
         B minorBm      A augmentedA
In the belly of a black-winged bird.
B minorBm  G+G
Don't try to feed me
B minorBm    G+G
I've been here before
  D MajorD      E MajorE
And I deserve a little more

[chorus]
A augmentedA B minorBm  D MajorD    E MajorE       A augmentedA
I belong in the service of the Queen
A augmentedA B minorBm  D MajorD  E MajorE        A augmentedA
I belong anywhere but in between
A augmentedA     B minorBm   D MajorD        E MajorE
She's been crying and I've been thinking
A augmentedA   B minorBm   D MajorD     E MajorE
And I am the Rain King


[verse]
E MajorE        D MajorD  A augmentedA      B minorBm  A augmentedA
And I said mama, mama, why am I so alone?
D MajorD     A augmentedA
I can't go outside
       B minorBm        A augmentedA
I'm scared I might not make it home
  D MajorD      A augmentedA
I'm alive, I'm alive
   B minorBm      A augmentedA
But I'm sinking in
      D MajorD         A augmentedA
If there's anyone at home at your place, darling
B minorBm           A augmentedA
Won' you please invite me in?
B minorBm  G+G
Don't try to bleed me
B minorBm    G+G
I've been there before
  D MajorD      E MajorE
And I deserve a little more

[chorus]
A augmentedA B minorBm  D MajorD    E MajorE       A augmentedA
I belong in the service of the Queen
A augmentedA B minorBm  D MajorD  E MajorE       A augmentedA
I belong anywhere but in between
A augmentedA     B minorBm  D MajorD       E MajorE
She's been lying and I've been sinking
A augmentedA   B minorBm   D MajorD     E MajorE
And I am the Rain King


[bridge]
B minorBm     D MajorD        A augmentedA
Hey, I only want the same as anyone
B minorBm      D MajorD  A augmentedA  B minorBm
Henderson is waiting for the sun
          D MajorD     A augmentedA
Oh, it seems night endlessly begins and ends
B minorBm      D MajorD        A augmentedA
After all the dreaming I come home again

(During guitar solo)

D MajorD A augmentedA B minorBm A augmentedA (2x)

Side Note: ****This whole part is basically just spoken, you should listen to that version before
trying to play this.****

It repeats almost entirely throughout: D, A, Bm, A augmentedA

      D MajorD         A augmentedA        B minorBm   A augmentedA
Well the screen door slams and Mary's dress sways
      D MajorD         A augmentedA             B minorBm
And like a vision she dances across the porch while the radio
 A augmentedA         D MajorD        A augmentedA
Plays Roy Oribison singing for the lonely
      B minorBm           A augmentedA          D MajorD     A augmentedA
Hey that's me and uh, I want you, Only don't turn me home again
          B minorBm       A augmentedA
I just can't face myself alone again

(Same progression, D, A, Bm, A augmentedA)

But don't come back inside darlin', you know just what I'm here for

So you're scared, and you're thinking, maybe we ain't that young anymore

But show a little faith there's magic in the night

You ain't a beauty but hey, you're all right

And that's all right with me

You can hide 'neath your covers and study your pain,

Make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain

Waste your summer praying in vain for a savior to rise from these streets

But I ain't no hero? That's understood

All the redemption I can offer girl is beneath this dirty hood

And with a chance to make it good somehow,

Hey what else can we do now except except rolllll down the window

Let the wind blow, back you hair

This nights busting' open these two lanes, take us anywhere

Got one last chance to make it real

Trade in these wings on some wheels

So climb in back baby, heaven's waiting down the tracks

Ohhh, come take my hand. We're ridin' out tonight to case the promised land, oh

Thunder road.


It's lyin out there like a killer in the sun I know it's late but we can make it,

if we run. Thunder road

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk

And my car's out back if you're ready to take that long long long long long long long walk

From your front porch to my, front seat

The door's open but the ride it ain't free

And tonight you'll be lonely for words that I ain't spoken

Tonight we'll be free all the promises broken

There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys

you sent away, They haunt this dusty beach road

In the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets

And they, they scream your name at night in the street

Your graduation gown lies in rags at their feet
        D MajorD (one strum)
And in the lonely cool before dawn
        D MajorD (one strum)
You hear their engines roaring on
       D MajorD            A augmentedA       B minorBm   A augmentedA
But when you get to the porch they're gone on the wind
           D MajorD  A augmentedA            B minorBm   A augmentedA
It's town full of losers, it's a town full of losers
                 D MajorD    A augmentedA
We all come from towns full of losers, we come from towns full of losers
      B minorBm         A augmentedA                  D MajorD
We come from towns full of losers, we come from towns full of losers
              A augmentedA   B minorBm         A augmentedA
But we're pulling out of here to win and when I when I

I think of heaven

D, A augmentedA

B minorBm     A augmentedA         D MajorD
Deliver me in a black-winged bird
       A augmentedA       B minorBm
I think I think I think of dying
A augmentedA        D MajorD         A augmentedA
Lay me down lay me down in a field of flame and heather
B minorBm      A augmentedA       D MajorD        A augmentedA
Render up my my my my body into the burning heart of God
        B minorBm       A augmentedA
In the belly of a black-winged bird
B minorBm  G+G
Don't try to bleed me
B minorBm    G+G
I've been here before
  D MajorD      E MajorE
And I deserve a little more


[chorus]
A augmentedA B minorBm  D MajorD    E MajorE       A augmentedA
I belong in the service of the queen
A augmentedA B minorBm  D MajorD  E MajorE       A augmentedA
I belong anywhere but in between
A augmentedA     B minorBm  D MajorD       E MajorE
She's been dying and I've been drinking
A augmentedA   B minorBm   D MajorD     E MajorE
And I am the Rain King