D5 A5 B5 E5 F#5 G#5 {intro; play four times} D5 A5 B5 E5 F#5 G#5 At the Half Moon Cafe, we drank to our lives D5 A5 B5 E5 F#5 G#5 Like pseudo-believers in love D5 A5 B5 We've been through our holes in the walls and the dives B5 B5 E5 Where you drink to recall what you once had a vision of C#5 C#5 C#5 C#5 And we talk of our lives in a prison B5 B5 B5 E5 Though we both know it's better to be A5 A5 D5 B5 Safe within our indecision A5 A5 E5 E5 F#5 G#5 Than taking the risk to be free And you were to be a great poet And I'd find my fame in song But we somehow saw failure more closely Than fame all along And now you manage a hamburger stand And I haven't found steady work yet And we meet here to talk and pretend That we know no regret D5 E5 A5 But how much is chance, how much would you decide? A5 D5 D5 G5 How much is murder of our dreams G5 B5 B5 E5 E5 How much is suicide? So you ask of my latest Top 40 And I ask of your latest great fiction As I step outside I see that the moon is full I have to laugh at the contradiction Well, at least we can laugh at our dreams Though it's really much more bitter than sweet Sometimes through all of this fragmentation I imagine what it feels to be complete But how much is chance, how much would you decide? 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How much is Dsus9 Dsus9 Gmaj9 Gmaj9 E ------0----- | ------0----- | ------2----- | ------2----- | B ----3-----3- | ----3-----3- | ------------ | ------------ | G --2-----2--- | --2-----2--- | ----2-----2- | ----2-----2- | D 0----------- | 0----------- | --0-----0--- | --0-----0--- | A ------------ | ------------ | ------------ | ------------ | E ------------ | ------------ | 3----------- | 3----------- | ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . murder of our dreams, how much is suicide Bm Bm E E E ------------ | ------------ | ------------ | ------------ | B ------3----- | ------3----- | ------0----- | ------0----- | G ----4-----4- | ----4-----4- | ----1-----1- | ----1-----1- | D --4-----4--- | --4-----4--- | --2-----2--- | --2-----2--- | A 2----------- | 2----------- | ------------ | ------------ | E ------------ | ------------ | 0----------- | 0----------- | ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . So you ask... - Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com
