RANDOM RULES
C5 E5 F5 C5
In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection.
C5 E5 F5 C5
Slowly screwing my way across Europe, they had to make a correction.
C5 E5 F5 C5
Broken and smokin' where the infrared deer plunge in the digital snake.
C5 E5 F5 C5
I tell you, they make it so you can't shake hands when they make your hands shake.
D5 F5
I know you like to line dance,
D5 F5
Everythings so democratic and cool,
D5 F5 C5
But baby there's no guidance when random rules.
C5 E5 F5 C5
I know that a lot of what I say has been lifted off of men's room walls.
C5 E5 F5 C5
Maybe I've crossed the wrong rivers and walked down all the wrong halls.
C5 E5 F5 C5
But nothing can change the fact that we used to share a bed
C5 E5 F5 C5
and that's why it scared me so when you turned to me and said:
D5 F5
"Yeah, you look like someone
D5 F5
Yeah you look like someone who up and left me low.
D5 F5 C5
Boy, you look like somene I used to know."
[PLAY VERSE CHORDS DURING SOLO]
C5 E5 F5 C5
I asked the painter why the roads are colored black.
C5 E5
He said, "Steve, it's because people leave
F5 C5
and no highway will bring them back."
C5 E5 F5 C5
So if you don't want me, I promise not to linger,
C5 E5 F5 C5
But before I go I gotta ask you dear about the tan line on your ring finger.
D5 F5
No one should have two lives,
D5 F5
now you know my middle names are wrong and right.
D5 F5 C5
Honey we've got two lives to give tonight.
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SMITH & JONES FOREVER
A5 F5
Are you honest when no one's looking?
A5 F5
Can you summon honey from a telephone?
A5 F5
They sat there with their hooks in the water
A5 E5
and their moustaches caked with airplane food.
A5
O come let us adore them
F5
California overboard
A5 F5
when the sun sets on the ghetto all the broken stuff gets cold.
G5 A5
Smith and Jones forever!
G5 A5
Smith and Jones forever!
G5 A5 F5 A5 F5
Smith and Jones forever together forever and ever.
A5 F5 A5
Together, forever and ever
A5 F5
Build a stage for Autumn's bitch.
A5 F5
They walk the alleys in duct tape shoes.
A5 F5
They see the things they need through the windows of a hatchback
A5 E5
The alleys are the footnotes of the avenues.
A5
o come let us adore them
F5
California overboard
A5 F5
holding up their trousers with extension cords.
G5 A5
Smith and Jones forever!
G5 A5
Smith and Jones forever!
G5 A5 F5 A5 F5
Smith and Jones forever together forever and ever.
A5 F5 A5
Together, forever and ever
A5
A5 F5
I've got two tickets to a midnight execution.
A5 F5
We'll hitchhike our way from Odessa to Houston
A5 F5
and when they turn on the chair
A5
something's added to the air
F5
when they turn on the chair
G5 A5
something's added to the air forever
G5 A5
Smith and Jones forever!
G5 A5 F5 A5 F5
Smith and Jones forever together forever and ever.
A5 F5 A5
Together, forever and ever.
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NIGHT SOCIETY
I'm not going to get too deep with this one, it's just riffs and whatnot over this progression:
C5 D5 E5 D5 C5
And you hold the last C. If somebody wants to tab it, go ahead, but I can't really
imagine too many people being pissed that they miss out on playing this one.
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FEDERAL DUST
(slide up to A5 , then G5 )
Bass riff (I just play it on guitar):
| ------------- | ------------- |
| ------------- | --------2---- |
| --------2-4-- | ----------4-- |
| --0-2h4------ | --0-2h4------ | repeat as necessary
C#5 F#5 Bb5 E5 C#5
They don't walk, and they don't talk in Malibu.
F#5 B5 Eb5 A5
They don't vote, they don't even smoke
E5
I know you're blue...
F#5
I know you're blue...
C#5
I know you're blue.
BASS RIFF
C#5 F#5 Bb5 E5 C#5
They don't cream and they don't dream in Kansas City.
F#5 B5 Eb5 A5
They don't crack, they don't, they never act
E5
I know you're ready...
F#5
I know you're ready...
C#5
I know you're ready.
SOLO OVER VERSE CHORDS
C#5 F#5 Bb5 E5 C#5
They don't cry, and they don't die in South Dakota.
F#5 B5 Eb5 A5 E5
They don't match and they don't hatch in South Dakota.
F#5
In South Dakota
C#5
Here comes the coda:
C#5 A5
Not much
E5 F#5 A5
water coming over the hill...
F#5
Not much
A5
Not much
C#5
Not much.
With the verses in this song whenever the Bbm is played there tends to be a
hammering on between a Bbmsus2 and the Bbm. If you know what that means, good. If
you don't, well, it's not really that important.
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PEOPLE
The verse E7M in this song is played as this: xxx444
VERSE
A5 - E5
Moments can be monuments to you
If your life is interesting and true.
It's just the same for a man or a girl,
The meaning of the world lies outside thw world.
People love people and they understand
if you wanna renovate your background mind
(a federal woman needs a municipal man)
people gotta synchronize to animal time.
E5 B5
You can't change the feeling
E5 B5 E5
but you can change your feelings about the feeling in a second or two...
B5
Ahhh
(hold B5 ) E5
People always come around.
E5 B5 E5
I'm studying the ceiling on a little afternoon
B5 E5
and when I paint my dining room
B5
Ahhhh
E5
people gonna come around.
A5 - E5
I love to see a rainbow from a garden hose
lit up like the blood of a centerfold
I love the city and the city rain,
suburban kids with biblical names.
People ask people to watch their scotch.
People send people up to the moon.
When they return, well there isn't much.
People be careful not to crest too soon.
E5 B5 E5
The drums march along at the clip of an I.V. drip
B5 E5
like sparks from a muffler dragged down the strip.
B5
Ahhh
E5
I really hope you'll come around.
E5 B5 E5 B5
It's sunny and 75. It feels so good to be alive.
E5 B5
come on baby don't stay inside.
E5
Everybody's coming out tonight.
And repeat the verse chords.
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BLUE ARRANGEMENTS
UNUSUAL CHORDS:
Eb5 *: x6780x
B5 *: x24445
B5 :x2434x
B5 B5 B5
I see you gracefully swimming with the country club women
E5 C#5 B5
in the Greenwood southside society pool.
A5 E5
I love your amethyst eyes and your protestant thighs
B5 F#5
you're a shimmering socialite jewel.
B5 B5 B5
From the Carbon Dioxide Riding Academy
E5 B5 C#5 B5
to the children's crusade marching through the downtown.
A5 E5
Well I think I'd die see, if you just said hi to me.
B5 F#5
When something breaks it makes a beautiful sound.
E5
Sometimes I feel like I'm watching the world
and the world isn't watching me back.
But when I see you, I know I'm in it too.
B5
The waves come in and the waves go back.
E5
The kids in the corner all covered in dirt.
Caught trespassing under the moon.
My father came in from wherever he'd been
B5
and kicked my shit all over the room.
A5
All over the room
E5
All over the room.
B5 Eb5 * A5 A5 E5
E5 Eb5 *
The room is dark and heavy with what I want to say.
A5 E5
I see murals in the radio static and on your blue blue jeans.
B5 * Eb5 *
What would you say if I asked you to run away?
A5 E5
It's been done so many times I hardly know what it means.
REPEAT THIS PROGRESSION OVER SOLO
E5 Eb5 *
I took these blue arrangements and threw them in the sea
A5 E5
when older waves from older caves brought them back to me.
B5 * Eb5 *
I took these blue arrangements and stored them on a shelf.
A5
With change on the mantle and time in a candle,
E5
in the end a boy raises himself.
REPEAT PROGRESSION OVER SOLO
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WE ARE REAL
UNUSUAL CHORDS:
F#5 : 2x0212
C5 G5 C5 F5
Up the hill past 694, at the stone wall make a left,
C5 G5 F5 G5 C5
and I will see you soon my friend if these old directions still direct.
G5
Oh yeah
F5 G5 C5
If these old directions still direct.
C5 G5 C5 F5
Is the problem that we can't see or is it that the problem is beautiful to me?
C5 G5
The birds of Virginia are flying within you
F5 G5 C5
and like background singers they all come in threes.
F5 G5 C5
And like background singers they all come in threes.
D5
Won't soul music change
C5 C5
now that our souls have turned strange.
F5 F#5
Once a day, twice a day...
D5
And when on and off collide
C5 C5 F5
we'll set our souls aside and walk away.
A5 D5
We've been raised on replicas of fake and winding roads
G5
and day after day up on this beautiful stage
E5
we've been playing tambourine for minimum wage
A5
but we are real,
E5
We are real,
A5
I know we are real.
C5 G5 C5 F5
Repair is the dream of the broken thing.
C5 G5
Like a message broadcast on an overpass
F5 G5 C5
all my favorite singers couldn't sing.
F5 G5 C5
All my favorite singers couldn't sing.
C5 G5 C5
My ski vest has buttons like convenience store mirrors
F5
and they help me see,
C5 G5
that everything in this room right now
F5 G5 C5
is a part of me.
F5 G5 C5
is a part of me.
D5
Won't soul music change
C5 C5
now that our souls have turned strange.
F5 F#5
Once a day, twice a day...
D5
And when on and off collide
C5 C5 F5
we'll set our souls aside and walk away.
A5 D5
Realizing is how it feels inside when it happens to you.
G5
So I took a shot of sugar like snow dumped into the blood
E5
and children wander off into the ultra-economic
A5
but we are real,
E5
We are real
A5 E5
I know we are real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real, real...
A5
I know we are real.
---
SEND IN THE CLOUDS
E5 (chromatic runup) G5
Send in the clouds. Bring down the rain.
D5 C5
Shut all the blinds, turn out the lights:
G5 D5 C5
I feel insane when you get in my bed.
E5 G5
I am the trick my mother played on the world
D5 C5
Seventeen doctors couldn't decide
G5 D5 C5
whether I should be allowed in the game.
C5 - C5 Am4 - A5
F5 C5 D5
Why can't monsters get along with other monsters?
A5 E5 A5
Soi disantra, soi disantra, soi disantra.
E5 G5
I know a puppy who walked form Kentucky.
D5 C5
Made to East Virginia by dawn.
G5 D5 C5
He had seventeen ideas in his head.
E5 G5
Windex tears flow down the robot's face. He never felt a mother's embrace.
D5 C5
My momma named me after a king.
G5 D5 C5
I'm gonna bury my name in you.
C5 - C5 Am4 - A5
F5 C5 D5
Why can't monsters get along with other monsters?
A5 E5
Soi disantra, soi disantra...
A5
they don't wanta.
C5 ( C5 , C#5 ) D5 A5
Why can't monsters get along with other monsters?
F5 D5 A5
Soi disantra, soi disantra, ohh
F5 D5 A5
Soi disantra, soi disantra, whoa!
Repeat.
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LIKE LIKE THE THE THE DEATH
B5 E5
Like like the the the death
G5 C5
Air crickets air crickets air crickets air crickets air
F5 G5
Mother and child with magazine
F5 C5
Into a story, into a dream
F5 G5
Why is there something instead of nothing
F5 C5
And how is the asking built into the hunting?
G5 A5 C5
Do you believe in MGM endings?
G5 A5 C5
Everybody's coming back to Christmas for Texas
G5 A5
Folks who've watched their mother kill an animal know
C5
That their home is surrounded by places to go
G5 A5 C5
(and the west has made a deal with the sun).
B5 E5
My life at home very day:
G5 C5
Drinking Coke in a kitchen with a dog
Who doesn't know his name.
B5 E5
Oh right it could've been anyone
G5 C5
Grass rabbits grass rabbits grass rabbits grass rabbits grass
F5 G5
Nobody cares about a dead hooker
F5 C5
Looking like one, standing for money
F5 G5
Life finds a limit at the edge of our bodies
F5 C5
A stranger begins wherever I see her.
G5 A5 C5
Let's live where the indoors and outdoors meet
G5 A5 C5
All the kids in the commonwealth are free.
G5 A5 C5
Every morning you forgive me, every evening you relive me
And the pattern itself is what you give me
G5 A5 C5
(the morning has cut a deal with the east).
B5 E5
Like like the the the death
G5 C5
Air crickets air crickets air crickets air crickets air
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BUCKINGHAM RABBIT
G5 F5 E5
Back then I had a Buckingham rabbit.
I'd been lonely since she found Christ.
Now is the time to depend on the law:
D5 E5
the nights of my professional life.
G5 F5 E5
I was living in a very young city.
Grand piano, great lakes, good-bye.
If you ask me my name, it's high-low-jack in the game.
D5 E5
I can track a single bee to the hive.
G5 F5 E5
Every single game was a blowout.
And the Nascar blurred into porn.
Scenic this, scenic that,
don't fall for the traps
D5 E5
Of the man who was never born.
F5 A5
And so the rent became whiskey,
F5 A5
and then my life became risky:
F5 A5
And so the rent became whiskey (whiskeyyeyey),
F5 A5
shattered dogs on the rocks.
G5 F5 E5
At the back of the bar there's a couch
where the lonely people go and lie.
They talk to the honky tonk psychiatrist
D5 E5
into the wee hours of the night.
G5 F5 E5
The factories on muscle relaxers.
The pine perfume of hilltown floors.
The lover, the thinker, the talker, the singer
D5 E5
won't be lucid for her anymore.
F5 A5
And so the rent became whiskey,
F5 A5
and then my life became risky:
F5 A5
And so the rent became whiskey (whiskeyyeyey),
F5 A5
shattered dogs on the rocks.
SOLO OVER CHORUS CHORDS
G5 F5 E5
When you know how I feel I feel better
When you're 15 you want to look poor.
Do unto others, and run like a mother
D5 E5
I don't want to look poor anymore
G5 F5 E5
Jesus in a runaway shelter,
said "The deaf have pictures of you."
From the digital fountains to the analog mountains,
D5 E5
let the mirrow express the room.
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HONK IF YOU'RE LONELY
D5
Radio's on, feeling all right
E5
Cruising the strip on a Saturday night.
G5
I smile and I wave and I hide all my pain
D5
but the sign on my bumper gives me away:
G5 A5 D5
Honk if you're lonely tonight
G5 D5
If you need a friend to get through the night
G5 D5
A toot on your horn, a flash of your brights
G5 A5 D5
Honk if you're lonely tonight.
(verse chords)
I know honky-tonk where we can go.
A booth in the back with the lights way down low.
The jukebox is playing a sad melody
for heart-broken lovers like you and me.
We'll laugh and we'll flirt and we'll dance every dance
and before the night's over we'll take a chance.
The morning will find us with a smile on our face
and we'll be together in a lover's embrace.
G5 A5 D5
Honk if you're lonely tonight
G5 D5
If you need a friend to get through the night
G5 D5
A toot on your horn, a flash of your brights
G5 A5 D5
Honk if you're lonely tonight.
(verse chords)
I know it seems sad to be so damn blue
but there's always the chance that you'll meet someone new.
I know that somewhere waiting for me
is a sad lonely lover with a bumper that reads:
G5 A5 D5
Honk if you're lonely tonight
G5 D5
If you need a friend to get through the night
G5 D5
A toot on your horn, a flash of your brights
G5 A5 D5
Honk if you're lonely tonight.
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THE WILD KINDNESS
E5 // C5 // C5 // E5
E5 C5
I wrote a letter to a wildflower
C5 E5
on a classic nitrogen afternoon.
E5 C5
Some power that hardly looked like power
C5 G5
said I'm perfect in an empty room.
D5
Four dogs in the distance
A5
each stands for a kindness.
C5
Bluebirds lodged in an evergreen altar...
G5 D5 A5
I'm gonna shine out in the wild silence
C5
and spurn the sin of giving in.
E5 C5
Oil paintings of x-rated picnics.
C5 E5
Behind the walls of medication I'm free.
E5 C5
Every leaf in a compact mirror
C5 G5
hits a target that we can't see.
D5
Grass grows in the icebox.
A5
The year ends in the next room
C5
It is autumn and my camouflage is dying
G5 D5 A5
instead of time there will be lateness
G5 D5 A5
instead of time there will be lateness
G5 D5 A5
instead of time there will be lateness
C5
and let forever be delayed.
SOLO OVER VERSE AND CHORUS CHORDS
E5 C5
I dyed my hair in a motel void
C5 E5
met the coroner at Dreamgate Frontier
E5 C5
He took may hand said I'll help you boy
C5 G5
ff you really want to disappear
D5
Four dogs in the distance
A5
each stands for a silence.
C5
Bluebirds lodged in an evergreen altar...
G5 D5 A5
I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness
G5 D5 A5
I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness
G5 D5 A5
I'm gonna shine out in the wild kindness
C5
and hold the world to its word.
Aaaand finish on a Bm.
