The Corner
by Cory Branan

Capo 2

Chords below are relative to capo

   D      A      G      Bm

e|-0-  e|-3-  e|-x - e|-0-
B|-1-  B|-0-  B|-x-  B|-1-
G|-0-  G|-0-  G|-2-  G|-2-
D|-2-  D|-0-  D|-3-  D|-2-
A|-3-  A|-2-  A|-x-  A|-0-
E|-3-  E|-3-  E|-1-  E|-0-

D          A                G         A 
Out on the corner of what I want, and what I intend to get
D                A           G         A
day drinking and dreaming of you, I let
D          A          G      A
the ashtray smoke my last cigarette

Once I had a casual acquaintance with my impending doom
years ago he promised me some day soon
I'd howl at the moon from room to room

        G                    D
I ain't transcending much of nothing
               A              D
I've been down in it, I ain't free

             Bm                     G          D
Weren't no experiment - these seven years they went
       A           D  (progressively down to G)  C#   B    A    G
like a life out of me

Clowning on the corner of almost gone but maybe not just yet
there's still a little left to pawn and the bones aren't set
The cast is slack, the plaster's wet

Stepping up the escalator singing hell I am out of here
past the predetermined terminals of tears
the wings are warm, the runway's clear

I ain't transcending much of nothing
I'm still down in it, I ain't free

Weren't no experiment - these seven years they went
like a life out of me

Maybe all the world's a hollow recreation, my desperate bretheren
hallowed blue hallucination we play to win
put your right foot out, put your right foot in

But it's a useful little illusion that'll lose you for a song
in the beautiful confusion you've been down and counting on

and it's a useful little illusion that'll lose you for a song
in the beautiful confusion you've been down and counting on

I ain't transcending nothing
I'm still down in it, I ain't free
weren't no experiment - hell every tear was ran
like a life out of me

Out on the corner what I want, what I intend to get
day drinking and dreaming of you, I let
the ashtray smoke my last cigarette