Chords with lyrics
[Intro]
B minorBm Bb majorBb G# minorG#m B minorBm
G# minorG#m G+G Bb majorBb G# minorG#m
Bb majorBb E MajorE B minorBm
[Verse]
B minorBm
The great grey sky, flat and wide,
A augmentedA
shivers above the heat
B minorBm A augmentedA
And silver rain lays like razor blades into the wounded miles of wheat
G+G F#F#
And the road resists with the rubbery kiss of meat
B minorBm
A augmentedA solitary tower, beaconed and boned,
A augmentedA B minorBm
strobes red as the liquid wind blows like blood in a river,
A augmentedA
and I turn to the driver, say, "This is a dead end road."
G+G F#F#
And the driver nods he knows.
G+G F#F#
But the muscle car never slows.
[Instrumental]
E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE
E minorEm E minorEm
[Chorus]
B minorBm D MajorD
Sit down and soak in the rain and the woe
G+G F#F#
Stoke your fire in the mire of the dead end road
B minorBm D MajorD
Take a drink, steal a light in the stultifying night
G+G F#F#
Think of anything that could disguise your life...
B minorBm D MajorD
But don't dream of the girl with the golden hair,
G+G F#F# B minorBm
cause that dream is old, and there's nothing there for you.
[Verse]
B minorBm
A augmentedA great black lie blacked the ride
A augmentedA
and the devil stole your seat
B minorBm A augmentedA
And all about outside were circumscribed signs of your imminent defeat
G+G F#F#
But the driver never speaks
B minorBm
Still you traverse that hide like a cursed pariah,
A augmentedA
but who's the one who uttered the oath?
B minorBm A augmentedA
You got your diatribe and your assorted messiahs, but what if you're deprived of both?
G+G F#F#
And your homely little hoax.
G+G F#F#
And your homely little hoax.
[Instrumental]
E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE E MajorE
E minorEm E minorEm
[Chorus]
B minorBm D MajorD
Sit down and soak in the rain and the woe
G+G F#F#
Stoke your fire in the mire of the dead end road
B minorBm D MajorD
Take a drink, steal a light in the nullifying night
G+G F#F#
Think of anything that could negate your life...
B minorBm D MajorD
But don't dream of the girl with the golden hair.
G+G F#F# B minorBm
'cause that dream is old, and there's nothing there for you...
[Bridge]
F#F#
Something rises by the side of the road
F#F#
beneath the sky's judging sty where your view explodes
G+G
to reveal the peeled head of a buzzard in your bed
F#F#
and it smiles at all your wiles with a lover's dread
G+G
and it's preaching to you with its clacking maw
F#F# G+G
that your provision of a service as a fodder for the fraud is like a tiny abyss,
F#F#
not what it appears, but all your artifice fits,
E MajorE
so if you can hear, hear me, hear me:
E minorEm
You are nothing, like you should be
[Chorus]
B minorBm D MajorD
Sit down and soak in the rain and the woe
G+G F#F#
Stoke your fire in the mire of the dead end road
B minorBm D MajorD
Take a drink, steal a light in the nullyfying night
G+G F#F#
Think of anything that could disguise your life
B minorBm D MajorD
Sit down and soak and piss and moan
G+G F#F#
Stoke your fire in the mire of the dead end road
B minorBm D MajorD
Take a drink, steal a light in the sadistic night
G+G F#F#
Think of anything that could have saved your life...
[Outro]
B minorBm D MajorD
...but don't dream of the girl with the golden hair,
F#F# F#F# B minorBm