Guitar chords with lyrics
[Intro]
E MajorE
E MajorE
You are crouched before the fire
F# minorF#m
in a state park by the highway
BB
and through the heavy pine trees
A augmentedA E MajorE
ten-ton trucks go groaning by
E MajorE
Like the screams of your Aunt Barbara
F# minorF#m
who went crazy in the 70's
BB
wrote poems to Jimmy Carter
A augmentedA E MajorE
but forgot to feed her kids
G#G#
But it's the first time you're together
A augmentedA E MajorE
since he got out of the hospital
G#G#
Raccoons in the darkness
A augmentedA BB
drag off your hotdog buns
E MajorE
But, you're happy just to lie there
F# minorF#m
in your plastic tent from Wal-Mart
BB
like sticks and fallen dead leaves
A augmentedA E MajorE
to feed the fire of the world
E MajorE F# minorF#m BB A augmentedA E MajorE
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E MajorE
But which is more important,
F# minorF#m
to comfort an old woman
BB
or see visions of the heavens
A augmentedA E MajorE
in the stumps of fallen trees?
G#G#
Albert Einstein trembled
A augmentedA E MajorE
when he saw that time was water,
G#G#
seeping through the rafters
A augmentedA BB
to put out this burning world
E MajorE F# minorF#m BB A augmentedA E MajorE
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E MajorE
Next morning you're at Waffle House
F# minorF#m
Toast and eggs and hash browns
BB
Truckers chain-smoke Camels
A augmentedA E MajorE
over plastic cups of juice
G#G#
And you remember how he cried
A augmentedA E MajorE
when they strapped him to the stretcher,
G#G#
convinced his arms were burning
A augmentedA E MajorE
with electricity from heaven
G#G#
You remember how he told you
A augmentedA E MajorE
that black holes were like Jesus
G#G#
And the crucifix was a battery
A augmentedA E MajorE
that filled the air with fire
E MajorE
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