G5                           C5                          G5
We passed 800 miles talking circles about living with loss
C5                                                              G5
You said your sense of humor's always helped you get above & across
G5                                   C5                    G5
Every hurdle, every chasm , every shocking & unspeakable blow
C5                                 
Just proves the universe is chaos so you laugh to clear the lump from your 
  G5       G/f#
throat

E5                              A5
But if you're fixed on being bitter
         G5            A5
Go be bitter on your own
                  C5
We're still two hours from El Paso
       D5                     G5
Arizona's such a long way to go


The chemicals were coursing through our bloodstreams at incongruous rates
I was time-traveling inward through a past life I can never erase
You were hanging out the window, you said: 'We're just a beggar's banquet in space'
You were laughing at the moon, you were cursing it for wearing your face


Me & New Mexico are orphans
Or is it bastards? Either way:
I know a guy in Roswell
We'll hitch a moonride, steal you back your face

Interlude, Repeat Verse

E5                                     A5
You sleep and whistle 'Blackbird' backwards 
           G5                    A5
while my eyes cut her name in clay.
              C5
You wake to Mesa, Arizona
              C5                            G5
Say, 'Let it go. She'll change her mind someday.'
              C5
You took the wheel in Mesa, Arizona.
              D5
Said, 'I got the rest, man.
               G5
You can drift away.'