When The Open Road Is Closing In chords by The Magnetic Fields

Chords with lyrics

magnetic fields:charm of the highway strip

song copyrighted 1993 by Stephin Merritt

crd by Benjamin Flynn
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when the open road is closing in

intro:
A augmentedA ....2.3..2....2.3..2..
E MajorE 3...........3.........
repeat

G+G                C majorC         G+G
time - measured in dotted yellow lines has past you by
G+G                  C majorC       G+G
and I never said an honest thing to you in all my life
   D MajorD    C majorC
hard times go slowly
       G+G      D MajorD
and the good times never come
        C majorC       G+G      D MajorD
the world is a motor inn in a iowa highway slum
G+G       D MajorD        C majorC
when the open road is closing in
E minorEm             D MajorD      A augmentedA
and you can't say where it ends and you begin
   G+G        D MajorD       C majorC          B7B7
when every truck stop dive's another five years off your life
G+G       D MajorD        C majorC
when the open road is closing in
E minorEm          D MajorD       A augmentedA
and the dotted yellow lines begin to spin
     G+G       D MajorD      C majorC         B7B7
when the sky begins to fall on everything you like at all
A minorAm      D MajorD      A minorAm  D MajorD G+G
you won't be coming home again

ciao you keep on drowning in the roads between the towns
now i have been closing all the shutters in the house
well i know you'll be back when every tree is turning brown
you'll find the house is empty and the swingset's fallen down