THE WASP (TEXAS RADIO & THE BIG BEAT)

EmI (022000@1)want to tell you about Texas Radio and the big beat.
It comes out of the Virginia swamps,
cool and slow with rugged precision,
with a backbeat narrow and hard to master.
 
 
EmSome (022000@1)call it heavenly in its brilliance,
others, mean and rueful of the Western dream.
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft.
We have constructed pyramids in honour of our escaping.
This is the land where the Pharaoh died.
 
E, F, E, F, G, E, F#, E, F#, A, A#, B,
E, F#, E, F#, E, F#, G#, G, F#, E, Em.
 
EmThe (022000@1)negroes in the forest, brightly feathered, and they are saying:
"Forget the night! Live with us in forests of azure,
out here on the perimeter, there are no stars.
Out here we is stoned immaculate."
 
 
   E (022100@1)         F# (244322@1)     E (022100@1)           F# (244322@1)                 GListen (320003@1)to this I'll tell you about the heartaches;
      E (022100@1)          F# (244322@1)   E (022100@1)            F# (244322@1)      A (x02220@1)  A# (x1333x@1) BI'll (x2444x@1)tell you about heartache and the loss of God.
     E (022100@1)           F# (244322@1)        E (022100@1)           F#I'll (244322@1)tell you about the hopeless night,
          C# (x43121@1)     A (x02220@1)          C# (x43121@1)      Athe (x02220@1)meager food my soul forgot,
F# (244322@1)                                                   G# (xx1114@1)       G (320003@1)F# (244322@1)E (022100@1)    Emtell (022000@1)you about the maiden with the wrought i - ron soul.
 
 
EmI (022000@1)want to tell you about Texas Radio and the big beat,
soft driven, slow and mad like some new language.
 
 
   E (022100@1)         F# (244322@1)     E (022100@1)           F# (244322@1)     GListen (320003@1)to this I'll tell you about Texas;
      E (022100@1)          F# (244322@1)  E (022100@1)     F# (244322@1)A (x02220@1)  A# (x1333x@1)BI'll (x2444x@1)tell you about Texas       Ra - di - o.
     E (022100@1)           F# (244322@1)        E (022100@1)           F#I'll (244322@1)tell you about the hopeless night,
          C# (x43121@1)  A (x02220@1)           C# (x43121@1)          Athe (x02220@1)wanderin' the Western dream,
F# (244322@1)                                                   G# (xx1114@1)       G (320003@1)F# (244322@1)E (022100@1)    Emtell (022000@1)you about the maiden with the wrought i - ron soul