Pretty Hair
Human Highway

A
Your mother helped you move
D
Made your transition smooth
A
Your community was there
D			B#min		    	
The youthful faces, 	pretty hair
A		D		E
You were 	surrounded,	by your peers

A
Then one day you saw it
D
You went home and tried to draw it
A 
You couldn't get it quite right
D				B#min
Its luminescence was so 	strangely bright
A		D
Living in a	fantasy
F#		D		A
Of toxicity	(toxic-ly)

Dm9	Am9	E	Am9
Dm9	Am9	F	E

Am9			Dm9		E		Am9
You're rubbing up	against the 	veneer of	disease
Dm9			Am9			E		Am9
You didn't know,	you didn't ask you	know that its	easy
Dm9			Am9			F		E
But you don't care	you like it that way Being	taken by 	surprise
Am9			Dm9			E		Am9
And narrowly narrowly 	narrowly		Avoiding your 	demise

Am9	Dm9	Am9	E	Am9 x2
C#

A		F#
A year later,	early one morning
D				A	C#
You woke up coughing you 	poor thing
A				F#
Turned on the radio, but 	it wasn't active
D				A		C#
There was a blackout, it	was radioactive


A	C# X3
D

A
So your mother came to get you
D
Because that's what mothers do
A
Left your neighborhood in pieces
D			B#min
Reduced to rubble and debris
A		D		E
Driving back to the suburbs in her SUV

A
Watched it on TV
D
In your fathers den of iniquity
A
And you changed the channel
D			B#min
When you saw your old	 friend
A		D		E
It was burning pretty hair was melting off your skin 

A