when the open road is closing in

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A5 ....2.3..2....2.3..2..
E5 3...........3.........
repeat

G5                                C5                  G5
time - measured in dotted yellow lines has past you by
G5                                   C5             G5
and I never said an honest thing to you in all my life
     D5        C5
hard times go slowly
             G5           D5
and the good times never come
               C5              G5            D5
the world is a motor inn in a iowa highway slum
G5             D5               C5
when the open road is closing in
E5                         D5            A5
and you can't say where it ends and you begin
     G5                D5              C5                   B5
when every truck stop dive's another five years off your life
G5             D5               C5
when the open road is closing in
E5                    D5              A5
and the dotted yellow lines begin to spin
         G5             D5            C5                 B5
when the sky begins to fall on everything you like at all
A5           D5            A5   D5 G5
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