Mexican War Streets chords by MewithoutYou

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

Chords Used: Am Em F G Dm C
F *, C *, Am *, Dm *, C **, G *, Aadd9 *

  F *   C *  Am *  Dm *   C **  G *  Aadd9 *
e|-1-| e|-0-| e|-x-| e|-x-| e|-x-| e|-x-| e|-x--|
B|-1-| B|-1-| B|-1-| B|-3-| B|-5-| B|-3-| B|-0--|
G|-x-| G|-x-| G|-2-| G|-2-| G|-5-| G|-4-| G|-2b-|
D|-x-| D|-x-| D|-x-| D|-x-| D|-x-| D|-x-| D|-x--|
A|-x-| A|-x-| A|-x-| A|-x-| A|-x-| A|-x-| A|-x--|
E|-x-| E|-x-| E|-x-| E|-x-| E|-x-| E|-x-| E|-x--|

Intro:

e|3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-|
B|-5-5-5-5-5-5-5-5|
G|----------------|
D|----------------|
A|----------------|
E|----------------|

Em

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

(palm muted)
Am             Em
On the Streets of Mexican Wars

         Am
I battle with the memory of a first fight
Em          Am
In our contemptible youth

I quoted White Nights
Em
Thinking that'd get rid of you
  Am            Em
And waited with a stone in my hand

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

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


Bridge:
F * , C * , Am * , Dm *
C ** , G * , Am * , Aadd9 *

  F *   C *  Am *  Dm *   C **  G *  Aadd9 *
e|-1-| e|-0-| e|-x-| e|-x-| e|-x-| e|-x-| e|-x--|
B|-1-| B|-1-| B|-1-| B|-3-| B|-5-| B|-3-| B|-0--|
G|-x-| G|-x-| G|-2-| G|-2-| G|-5-| G|-4-| G|-2b-|
D|-x-| D|-x-| D|-x-| D|-x-| D|-x-| D|-x-| D|-x--|
A|-x-| A|-x-| A|-x-| A|-x-| A|-x-| A|-x-| A|-x--|
E|-x-| E|-x-| E|-x-| E|-x-| E|-x-| E|-x-| E|-x--|

F *          C *
Rivers of sadness and mutual need
    Am *        Dm *
In the loud desperation of social routine
  C **        G *
The rock of salvation, lightly esteemed
   Am *         Aadd9 *
And distance surging like oceans between us
F *            C *
Suspended by strings Over rotating wheels
  Am *          Dm *
Via magnets and springs Of Carnegie steel
   C **        G *
With 'representation' our fashionable theme
   Am *        Aadd9 *
And unfathomably powerful forces Like oceans between us
F *       C *
We have all the signs we need
   Am *          Dm *          C **
Do we decide not to read? My will: And those who precede:
C **       G *       Am *
the relation between Is listening beside me
          Aadd9 *
At night like some seismic machine
     F *         C *
While the metal vibrations of petrified men
  Am *           Dm *
Are etched in translation by pendulum pens
    C **           G **
And the movements of underground plates
       Am *
Do nothing to bridge or exacerbate
Aadd9 *