Mexican War Streets chords by MewithoutYou

Chords with lyrics

Capo on 5th Fret. All chords relative to Capo.

Chords Used: A minorAm E minorEm FF G+G DmDm C majorC
FF *, C majorC *, A minorAm *, DmDm *, C majorC **, G+G *, Aadd9Aadd9 *

  FF *   C majorC *  A minorAm *  DmDm *   C majorC **  G+G *  Aadd9Aadd9 *
e|-1-| e|-0-| e|-x-| e|-x-| e|-x-| e|-x-| e|-x--|
BB|-1-| BB|-1-| BB|-1-| BB|-3-| BB|-5-| BB|-3-| BB|-0--|
G+G|-x-| G+G|-x-| G+G|-2-| G+G|-2-| G+G|-5-| G+G|-4-| G+G|-2b-|
D MajorD|-x-| D MajorD|-x-| D MajorD|-x-| D MajorD|-x-| D MajorD|-x-| D MajorD|-x-| D MajorD|-x--|
A augmentedA|-x-| A augmentedA|-x-| A augmentedA|-x-| A augmentedA|-x-| A augmentedA|-x-| A augmentedA|-x-| A augmentedA|-x--|
E MajorE|-x-| E MajorE|-x-| E MajorE|-x-| E MajorE|-x-| E MajorE|-x-| E MajorE|-x-| E MajorE|-x--|

Intro:

e|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|
BB|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5|
G+G|----------------|
D MajorD|----------------|
A augmentedA|----------------|
E MajorE|----------------|

E minorEm

    A minorAm      E minorEm
Though by the path I lead
        A minorAm           E minorEm
The passing of time and the pouring of tea
  A minorAm       E minorEm
Are all I've lately seen
   FF     G+G
O my soul
     A minorAm         E minorEm
Until the temporal bridge be burned
     A minorAm         E minorEm
Until our anchor stocks hold firm
     A minorAm          E minorEm
Where the hands of clocks don't turn
   FF     G+G
O my soul
    A minorAm       E minorEm
May our lips remain discreet
      A minorAm          E minorEm
While your traps are beneath our feet
    A minorAm       E minorEm
But how long before our tails are caught
    FF       G+G
By our quote free endquote thought?
FF             G+G
Sugar in the cane, candles low
FF                  G+G
Kettle on the flame for the teapot? No
 DmDm       C majorC
I tremble at the thought
FF             G+G
Sugar in the cane, candles low
FF                 G+G
Southside Flats where the upscale go
 DmDm       C majorC
I tremble at the thought!
 DmDm       C majorC
I tremble at the thought!

(palm muted)
A minorAm             E minorEm
On the Streets of Mexican Wars

         A minorAm
I battle with the memory of a first fight
E minorEm          A minorAm
In our contemptible youth

I quoted White Nights
E minorEm
Thinking that'd get rid of you
  A minorAm            E minorEm
And waited with a stone in my hand

But you were quite right:
A minorAm
Nature had another plan
    E minorEm
(& failed to run it by me)
A minorAm
Nature had another plan
E minorEm          A minorAm
Some other surrogate self
              E minorEm        A minorAm
To live in the sediment of so many somebody elses'
      E minorEm
Innumerable lives and you were right:
      FF
It's not a person who dies
  G+G
But worlds die inside us

FF                   G+G
Sugar in the cane and the candles are low
FF                     G+G
On the West End Bridge looking down at the Ohio
 DmDm       C majorC
I tremble at the thought of what's often referred to as 'karma.'
FF               G+G
The sugar and the candles are gone
FF                     G+G
You panic like a mouse when the lights go on
       DmDm    C majorC
(I ADMIT, IT WARMS MY HEART
TO WATCH YOUR WORLD FALL APART)
FF                     G+G
The colorful hills talked me down from the bridge:
FF                   G+G
To heck with all the drugs my parents did
      DmDm      C majorC
I'd like to meet whoever said the words we print in red
    DmDm     C majorC
With a coin in my teeth on the Mexican War Streets

Bridge:
FF * , C majorC * , A minorAm * , DmDm *
C majorC ** , G+G * , A minorAm * , Aadd9Aadd9 *

  FF *   C majorC *  A minorAm *  DmDm *   C majorC **  G+G *  Aadd9Aadd9 *
e|-1-| e|-0-| e|-x-| e|-x-| e|-x-| e|-x-| e|-x--|
BB|-1-| BB|-1-| BB|-1-| BB|-3-| BB|-5-| BB|-3-| BB|-0--|
G+G|-x-| G+G|-x-| G+G|-2-| G+G|-2-| G+G|-5-| G+G|-4-| G+G|-2b-|
D MajorD|-x-| D MajorD|-x-| D MajorD|-x-| D MajorD|-x-| D MajorD|-x-| D MajorD|-x-| D MajorD|-x--|
A augmentedA|-x-| A augmentedA|-x-| A augmentedA|-x-| A augmentedA|-x-| A augmentedA|-x-| A augmentedA|-x-| A augmentedA|-x--|
E MajorE|-x-| E MajorE|-x-| E MajorE|-x-| E MajorE|-x-| E MajorE|-x-| E MajorE|-x-| E MajorE|-x--|

FF *          C majorC *
Rivers of sadness and mutual need
    A minorAm *        DmDm *
In the loud desperation of social routine
  C majorC **        G+G *
The rock of salvation, lightly esteemed
   A minorAm *         Aadd9Aadd9 *
And distance surging like oceans between us
FF *            C majorC *
Suspended by strings Over rotating wheels
  A minorAm *          DmDm *
Via magnets and springs Of Carnegie steel
   C majorC **        G+G *
With 'representation' our fashionable theme
   A minorAm *        Aadd9Aadd9 *
And unfathomably powerful forces Like oceans between us
FF *       C majorC *
We have all the signs we need
   A minorAm *          DmDm *          C majorC **
Do we decide not to read? My will: And those who precede:
C majorC **       G+G *       A minorAm *
the relation between Is listening beside me
          Aadd9Aadd9 *
At night like some seismic machine
     FF *         C majorC *
While the metal vibrations of petrified men
  A minorAm *           DmDm *
Are etched in translation by pendulum pens
    C majorC **           G+G **
And the movements of underground plates
       A minorAm *
Do nothing to bridge or exacerbate
Aadd9Aadd9 *

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