Reconstruction Site chords by The Weakerthans

Chords with lyrics

Verse:
  F#F#     BsusBsus
I'm lost, I'm a frayed
C#C#
Rope tying down a leaky boat
    F#F#          BsusBsus
To the roof of a car on the road in the dark
     C#C#
And it's snowing
    F#F#      BsusBsus
If I'm more, then it means less
C#C#
Last call for happiness
     F#F#             BsusBsus
I'm your dress near the back of your knees
         C#C#
And your slip is showing
   F#F#     BsusBsus   C#C#
I'm a float in a summer parade
           F#F#    BsusBsus       C#C#
Up the street in the town that you were born in
    F#F#     BsusBsus    C#C#
With a girl at the top wearing tulle
           F#F#
And a Miss Somewhere sash
BsusBsus        C#C#
Waving like the queen

Chorus:
D#mD#m           BB
Beauty's just another word
             G# minorG#m
I'm never certain how to spell
               F#F#
Go tell the nurse to turn the TV back on
D#mD#m          BB
And throw away my misery
               C#C#
It never meant that much to me
             N.C.
It never sent a Get Well card


Verse:
 F#F#      BsusBsus C#C#
I broke like a bad  joke

Somebody's uncle told
   F#F#          BsusBsus C#C#
At a wedding reception in 19  72
    F#F#         BsusBsus          C#C#
Where a little boy under a table with cake in his hair
F#F#           BsusBsus          C#C#
Stared at the grown-up feet as they danced and swayed
    F#F#         BsusBsus          C#C#
And his father laughed and talked on the long ride home
    F#F#         BsusBsus          C#C#
And his mother laughed and talked on the long ride home
    F#F#        BsusBsus       C#C#
And he thought about how everyone dies someday
  F#F#      BsusBsus              C#C#
And when tomorrow gets here where will yesterday be
  F#F#         BsusBsus         C#C#
And fell asleep in his brand-new winter coat


Chorus:
D#mD#m          BB
Buy me a shiny new machine
             G# minorG#m
That runs on lies and gasoline
              F#F#
And all those batteries we stole from smoke-alarms
D#mD#m          BB
And disassembles my despair
           C#C#
It never took me anywhere
             N.C.
It never once bought me a drink