Standard (EADGBE)
Intro
0:00- 0:23
Verse
0:24- 1:09
"Joliet," she says, "is the darkest part of a man..."
It's angry and slick
into those letters writes through herself each time
that she thinks of him
Trips her way down south, into mystery's mouth
and he follows her there
It's what she doesn't say that makes you want to stay
and try to comfort her
Chorus
1:10- 1:32
I talked to the cousins of people who knew you
I asked them the questions they expected to hear, like
maybe a killing went down in your town
maybe it's the prison or the birth of barbed wire
1:33- 1:44
Verse
1:45- 2:30
"Joliet," she says, "is the darkest part of a man..."
It's shaped like liberty's bell
it's cracked and common law, stretched out over it's flaws
just like an ink-less well
The hanging judge in town records her comments down
she saves the crowd the truth
and deals with it herself, fills that hollow well,
with nothing left to prove
Chorus
2:31- 2:53
I talked to the mountains and streams that pushed through there
I talked to the trees that had no fruit to bear
to the colorless people that sat there beneath her
curled up and stared
2:54- 3:17 (SOLO)
3:18- 3:51 (SOLO & band)
Chorus
3:52- end
I talked to the cousins of people who knew you
I asked them the questions they expected to hear, like
maybe a killing went down in your town
maybe it's the prison or the birth of barbed wire... Joliet
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