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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 14:40:21 +0100
From: Benjamin Flynn 
Subject: m/magnetic_fields/when_the_open_road_is_closing_in.crd

magnetic fields:charm of the highway strip

song copyrighted 1993 by Stephin Merritt

crd by Benjamin Flynn
cflynn@haverford.edu


when the open road is closing in

intro:
A ....2.3..2....2.3..2..
E 3...........3.........
repeat

G (320003@1)                              C (x32010@1)                Gtime (320003@1)- measured in dotted yellow lines has past you by
G (320003@1)                                 C (x32010@1)           Gand (320003@1)I never said an honest thing to you in all my life
     D (xx0232@1)      Chard (x32010@1)times go slowly
             G (320003@1)         Dand (xx0232@1)the good times never come
               C (x32010@1)            G (320003@1)          Dthe (xx0232@1)world is a motor inn in a iowa highway slum
G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1)             Cwhen (x32010@1)the open road is closing in
Em (022000@1)                       D (xx0232@1)          Aand (x02220@1)you can't say where it ends and you begin
     G (320003@1)              D (xx0232@1)            C (x32010@1)                 B7when (x21202@1)every truck stop dive's another five years off your life
G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1)             Cwhen (x32010@1)the open road is closing in
Em (022000@1)                  D (xx0232@1)            Aand (x02220@1)the dotted yellow lines begin to spin
         G (320003@1)           D (xx0232@1)          C (x32010@1)               B7when (x21202@1)the sky begins to fall on everything you like at all
Am (x02210@1)         D (xx0232@1)          Am (x02210@1) DG
you won't be coming home again

ciao you keep on drowning in the roads between the towns
now i have been closing all the shutters in the house
well i know you'll be back when every tree is turning brown
you'll find the house is empty and the swingset's fallen down