• Song:

    Kontiki Album

  • Artist:

    Cotton Mather

F5                Bb5                      G5              C5            F5         Bb5  F5   Bb5   C5
In care of his contraption mad camp hill rail operator woman
F5                         Bb5          C5
Is she speaking from the heart?
            F5                   Bb5          C5
Maybe blasting from another world?
                   A5                           Bb5                                     C5
Or just the emissary of a higher court inside the body of a girl?
F5                           Bb5    C5
Does she want to take control?
                  F5                           Bb5                  G5              C5
When her eight track breaks down will she take my bus home?
     F5                Bb5                      G5              C5            F5         Bb5  F5   Bb5   C5
In care of his contraption mad camp hill rail operator woman

Is this some sort of reverie for the 

One woman Jan and Dean heading for the crash?

Is she half who she ought to be

Or a overdue prodigy

Whose unsolicited view of your present's confused with her past?

At a table by the door

Of my moment but she can't sit still,

And when I crash upon the floor she'll come across the stage

and finish out the bill,

She throws one switch and all trains are in space

What she lays on those tracks you can't ever erase
     F5                Bb5                      G5              C5            F5         Bb5  F5   Bb5   C5
In care of his contraption mad camp hill rail operator woman, yeah





HOMEFRONT CAMEO

Capo 3rd Fret

F5                                    E5                         A5
Everything is better the boss has made a cameo
F5                                    E5                         A5
He has seen the infidel army like a prince of old
A5                                        D5
Listen to him twist her faith, he's been out there all day
C5                        E5                A5           G5     F5
Sleeping on the laurels of a face from long ago
A5                                        D5
As matters complicate, it's a terrible thing to wait
F5                                    E5                        A5
Everything is better the boss has made a cameo
F5                                    E5                        A5
He has seen the infidel army like a prince of old
D5                     Bb5                     F5
She's made the bed three times today

Each a masterpiece in its own way and takes his name in vain

From this vantage point she is making her plans

Kiss good-bye to this your century map

She calls her future back ,takes his wine from the rack
 
He wants a glass of water but she sweetly mouths her no

Then like an arrow she's let go, Arcing from he poison beau

Everything is better the boss has made a cameo 

She has seen the infidel army like a prince of old



SPIN MY WHEELS

D5            G5                   A5                     G5          G     E5
You run away with my sleep and I'm stuck in here so deep
D5          G5          E5              G5     G          E5   E5   A5
I had a terrible dream and I can't wake up it seems
G5                    B5     G5                          F#5
In my parallel field, what's imagined is real
G5             E5                          D5           G5         G       E5   E5   A5
For you I conceal, all that I feel and girl you spin my wheels
D5            G5          A5                    G5          G     E5
I've got a terrible mind, maybe desperate or unkind
D5                G5               E5               G5                     G     E5   E5   A5
Thinking of ways to dispose of the ones we say we love the most
G5                            B5       G5                          F#5
I want to carry you home, I want to see you alone
G5                          E5                        D5           G5         G       E5   E5   A5
For we will never show all that we feel and girl you spin my wheels

MY BEFORE AND AFTER

Capo 1ST Fret

D5    G5                                A5 
She picked me out of the millions
                            F#5
Thumbing an OED
G5                                E5   A5
Dressed me down to civilian
F#5                                  G5 
Cracked the code on the Rosetta Stone
F#5                           G5 
Said the word for alone is "alone"
A5                       E5         A5         D5
My before and after her
D5    G5                                A5 
We found that R Mutt was truly
                            F#5            G5                                          E5           A5
some work of genius       she helped my best friends see through me
F#5                             G5
Said the church of his holiness lied
F#5                                 G5                              A5
This world's no dead end it's park and ride
A5                       E5         A5         D5
My before and after her
F#5                             G5
Now I'm dangerously reprogrammed man
F#5                                 G5                              A5
Like that guy in the Manchurian
A5                       E5         A5         D5
My before and after her





PRIVATE RUTH


She used to love me and that was such an obstacle

Running around in the bad hand-me-downs of someone else's girl

She's pulling my name and making a face

As if to say all that you've been has been erased

Private Ruth, you hate

She's tired of loving the ones she knows she's better than

Moving the men on a chessboard full of all her so called friends

Or maybe she just wants me a drone

Proclaiming edicts from the queen bee in her cone

Private Ruth, you hate



VEGETABLE ROW

G5                        D5                           C5
I hear when you talk that not much goes on 
G5                              D5                           C5
And now I think you might be the dark right before my dawn
G5                                          G5                                            C5
And the clouds have made a fissure I've arranged that for you mister
C5                 C5                        C5        
So that you can go ahead and prematurely start the process of preserving

You look so afraid and I can see why

You just turned your back on a very dangerous guy

And the bells ring with a vengeance as we witness your ascension

To a land where they can things better than all the "Bells of Rhymny"

On vegetable row, vegetable row. On vegetable row, vegetable row

Think of us in your new haunt

They must have let classes out early those days

And I bet you were the funniest clown at the front of the hip parade

Now you shadows swirl around us take us back to where you found us

Crawl back underneath you couch and tell us things are a little bit skewed

On vegetable row, vegetable row. On vegetable row, vegetable row

I'm thinking of a place where times your boss

And now you just can't wait

To turn in your only key, pass your baton to me,

Sell yourself penny cheap and never stop to total up the cost

Some people give up on the third or fourth try

And some can make a career out of just trying to say good-bye

They've been holding your place someone's here to fill that space

And it's a mighty act of grace you won't have me around

To check you vital signs  On vegetable row...  Think of us in your new haunt

AURORA BORI ALICE

D5                    D5         D5                  D5
Alice can you hear me, tonight the sky's not clearing
D5                        C5   G5
You'll never see Cassiopeia
D5                      D5                      D5                 D5
You're there at your department, I'm here in your apartment
D5                                        C5   G5
Another night I'll spend alone
E5               F5                                      D5
A girl, her telescope, and the great unknown
D5           D5
Alice in ugly weather
D5                      D5             D5                                    C5   G5
You said we'd be together, and not afraid to let it show
D5               D5                  D5             D5
The Pleiades behind her, Orion should remind her
D5                                               C5   G5
Of summer boy she's got at home
E5                     F5                                    D5
She loves her telescope more than I'd known, oh...
G5                                                   A5
Aurora Bori Alice, do you think there's someone out in space for you?
C5                                   F5          G5
I want to be the man to change your point of view
G5                                                   A5
And if your hear me Alice, redirect your looking glass to earthly heights
C5                                                      F5            G5
See a man who loves you so much more than Northern Lights


CHURCH OF WILSON

(use barred chords throughout)

C5            B5                C5
Give yourself away if you want
        G5                                  B5
How did your Daddy get so gaunt
C5                  B5                 C5
It's a pretty face that you know



What's a boy to do when a girl's untrue

Put your bell on your bike

And its not my right to kill son

I'm an acolyte from the mighty

Church of Wilson
C5                            B5               C5
Yeah the world's a mess and I know
                G5                             B5
You don't need me to tell you so
C5                         B5            C5
Who's it gonna hurt to be Kings
G5                            B5
Playing I the shiny things

Want to make my move to 

the throwback groove

While there's stream in the pipes

And its not my right to kill son

I'm an acolyte from the mighty

Church of Wilson

Church of Wilson


LILLY DREAMS ON

D5      G5                         B5             E5
Lily I hope you picture me in your dreams
D5                     G5                   B5                          E5
Put down your King James Bible, You don't need no kings
D5                                 A5
Close you eyes, baby I'll dry mine
B5                           E5
Echoes through the phone
                D5    A5                 G5    E5
Far from this, Lily dreams on
D5                    G5                             B5              E5
Think back to fields of Catherine, you used to play
D5             G5          
I swore I heard you laughing
B5               E5
And almost say
D5                      A5
Pull you mirrors down, Run back to the house
B5                          E5
And let the past be gone
               D5     A5                 G5    E5     
Far from this, Lily dreams on



ANIMAL SHOW DRINKING SONG

C5                  G5            A5
Took an exit sign to a world of motel time
                 F5                       C5                       G5      G5
Where we walk a crooked line and high is low
C5                      G5                A5
Trust your sad MC, time to kill the bar Tele
                 F5                               C5                    G5        G5
When the lights come on you'll see we're still alone
                 F5
Watch the saints weave slow
       C5
From the animal show, animal show, animal show


PASSWORD

A5                           E5                           D5                    A5
Lift your latch and let me pass that's all I'm asking girl
       A5                    E5
and forgive what's unorthodox
  D5                         D5                 E5                               A5
I fashioned this to slip your locks so we might have a word
A5                        E5                           D5                           A5
We had a fight I won last night but who slept outside girl?
A5                            E5                         D5                    D5
What if I'm wrong, help me along to give a bit and still look strong
E5                       F#5
I want to tell the world
F#5          D5               A5     E5  F#5          D5                                           A5    
Key to the lock of the heard Password, is something I believe we've earned
       A5                         E5                               D5                    A5
And If you're told I'm bought and sold and soulless to be sure
A5                                         E5  
Your friends would fight for your advice
D5                               D5                     E5                            F#5
"it must be weird, he looked so nice, you're such a lucky girl"
F#5          D5               A5     E5    F#5            D5                                       A5
Key to the lock of the heard Password, its something I believe we've earned
F#5            D5                                    A5
Password, give us back what we deserve


SHES ONLY COOL

G5                      G5                             G5          G5      G5
She mixes you up and makes you come down
E5                 C5                                G5
And I'm gone enough to fall for that now
C5     D5        G5         C5                  G5             C5 
She's only cool tonight and I've lost your sight
             G5     C5    E5  D5                 G5
But that lullaby can never get me home
G5                       G5                          G5    G5    G5
I've seen a few things I think you could say
E5                       C5                                  G5
My words fail me now and its better that way
C5   D5          G5          C5                 G5            C5
She's only cool tonight and I've lost your sight
             G5    C5    E5   D5                G5
But that lullaby can never get me home
B5                                 E5        B5                          C5
Each night that I spend away is one more I have to behave
    G5                    C5             G5                    D5
But she makes it seem so uncool not to cave, she's only cool tonight...
AUTUMN BIRDS

Intro G5  B5 D5

G5                                       B5   
Prayed for "Endless Summer" made a wish to "Little Wing"
             C5                                                          B5
But you gave the world your number and your phone won't ring
       C5     B5                                                        C5      B5     D5
Uh oh...begging for an early heart attack... Uh oh
G5                                                               B5
You've seen the great migration from the world that's locked in ice
             C5                                                      B5
And you wear your change of station like a faded sticker price
      C5     B5                                                         C5    B5   D5
Uh oh...begging for an early heart attack... Uh oh
C5            G5            D5
Ah surrender she flew
          C5                                  G5                D5
Under sun split sky drenched crystalline blue
            A5                        C5               G5   C5    G5   C5
Where autumn's birds are killing you
C5             
In your long coat down by the song tree
C5                                                               G5
Are you watching a girl no one else can see
C5
From the days of enervation man you need some elevation
G5                                    D5
Would that the explanation were just part of some bad dream
G5                                                                B5
And when you think you're with it still, the girls know who you are
                  C5                                               B5
You could say the sky's the limit, but you'll never be a star
      C5     B5                                                C5       B5   D5
Uh oh...begging for an early heart attack  Uh oh... 
C5            G5            D5
Ah surrender she flew
C5                                             G5              D5 
Under sun split sky drenched crystalline blue
            A5                          C5
Where autumn's birds are killing you
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