Rips In The Fabric chords by Vic Chesnutt

Chords with lyrics

Intro:
C majorC  FF  G+G x3

Verse 1:

             C majorC    FF G+G
She was walking down the sidewalk

             C majorC FF G+G
Sniffing swiftly in the wind

              C majorC   FF G+G
Thinking of everything and nothing

              C majorC  FF G+G
Just another flighty human being

           C majorC   FF G+G
And satellites where arcing

        C majorC  FF G+G
Undetected overhead

          C majorC    FF G+G
Her cells were busy splitting

          C majorC  FF G+G
And jettisoning the dead

Chorus:

  FF G+G C majorC     FF
Beauty is as beauty does

    C majorC      G+G
In the eyes of the beholder

     FF          C majorC
Or collectively in all of us

Instrumental:
C majorC  FF  G+G x2

Verse 2:

           C majorC   FF G+G
She was waving to a cyclist

           C majorC FF G+G
As he went coasting by

         C majorC    FF G+G
Through a lazy intersection

               C majorC  FF G+G
Towards the remainder of his life

           C majorC   FF G+G
And a feral cat went diving

         C majorC  FF G+G
Behind a dumpster there

              C majorC  FF G+G
Which displaced a big brown rat

                 C majorC  FF G+G
That went fleeing with a comical flair

Chorus:

    FF   G+G   C majorC    FF
We are trapped, but we are free

  C majorC       G+G
To go through the motions

        FF        C majorC
And be just as happy as we can be.

Instrumental:
C majorC  FF  G+G x2

Verse 3:

        C majorC    FF G+G
And later on I held her

    C majorC    FF G+G
In my skinny arms

             C majorC   FF G+G
My chapped lips were whispering

      C majorC FF G+G
Esoteric alarms

             C majorC   FF G+G
But her warm breath assuaged me

         C majorC  FF G+G
And the music returned

        C majorC  FF G+G
Our dancing continued

             C majorC  FF G+G
While big forest fires burned

Outro:

     FF   G+G  C majorC    FF
Space is spooky and time is a trip

       C majorC                  G+G
Don't let the preachers and teachers and hipsters fool you

        FF          C majorC
There ain't no rips in the fabric.