Standard (EADGBE)

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this riff is repeated throughout the song

here's the intro riff after the band comes in (it's also repeated later)

Cherry picking through the stars

And falling cannonballs

Waiting for the break of dawn

To start its morning crawl

Polluted rays of filtered light

Tropical and warm

Making shadows through

The snow white resin covered skulls

Happy birthday to the war

Standing by the wall

A rainbow made of stars

Under seven different shades of grey

Spreading out across the arc

Days of wonder spent

Out there killing time

Now this may not leave a mark on me

But I sure as hell was there

(intro G, and the intro lick thing)

Caravanning on the moonlit

Locust covered trail

We came out like a stream of bats

Exploding from the well

Slipping through the whirlpools

Of trees and floating cars

Behind a winter coated mule

Down record breaking falls

Into oblivion's open jaws

Standing by the wall

A rainbow made of stars

Under seven different shades of grey

Spreading out across the arc

Days of wonder spent

Out there killing time

Now this may not leave a mark on me

But I sure as hell was there

Happy Birthday to the war

Days of wonder spent

By a rainbow made of stars

Under seven different shades of grey

Spreading out across the arc

Standing by the wall

Out there killing time

Now this may not leave a mark on me

But I sure as hell was there

(piano interlude..chords same as guitar solo then..)

Educated under God

To walk a neutral line

Give me neither poverty

Nor riches in my time

Take my body and my mind

My heart is far behind

With a dozen poems in my ears

Ricocheting wild

(Intro chords and lick to fade out)

Permission now to let this thing land

I'm too far gone to know where I am

Conditions are worse than we planned

Permission now to let this thing land

Heading straight into the blackness

Beyond the point of ever turning back

Slipping off the radar through a hole in space

Goes the passenger sitting backwards

Adam took the apple, I was not involved

I'm not responsible for how lost we are

Batten down the hatches, extinction calls

But Adam took the apple, I was not involved

Heading straight into the blackness

Way beyond the point of ever turning back

Slipping off the radar through a hole in space

Goes the passenger sitting backwards

May be a rumble

Maybe nothing more

Maybe a thunder

There before she blows

Maybe not a big bang

But just a little white noise

Into the furnace of red twilight

Threading like a needle through searchlights

Fading further and spinning right

Into the furnace of red twilight

Heading straight into the blackness

Too far gone, now there's no turning back

Slipping off the radar into a hole in space

Goes the passenger sitting backwards

Tomorrow is gonna make you cry

It's gonna make you kneel

Before it breaks you from inside

Still pressing on

Arm over arm

Still trying to get both feet back on to the ground

They are harvesting these fields in autumn

We're different now than when we started

I am ready to wake up

There in the exodus

On the beautiful side of somewhere

There on the pavement underneath the yellow moon

I think of you and just how easily we bruise

A folded address in my pocket I have stopped

Trying to believe for you that the bottom didn't drop

I am on the platform, covered with dust

I pray they take the both of us

I am ready to wake up

There in the exodus

On the beautiful side of somewhere

I am ready to come down

And see us both somehow

On the beautiful side of somewhere, someday

I am lighting matches for the rescue

Some are candles, some are fuses

Acting on my best behavior

Switching over every breaker

As we're plowing through these laws of nature

Disregarding every acre

I'm lying in my Sunday best

Assuming this was not a test

I am ready to wake up

There in the exodus

On the beautiful side of somewhere

I am ready to come down

And see us both somehow

On the beautiful side of somewhere, someday

On the beautiful side of somewhere, someday

Chords (mostly power chords, but I'll list the full chord)

Intro .........................(to verse) this intro isn't

exact, i don't think they use double stops on the record but it sounds

kind of good to me, you can just take the top note to get the melody

Here comes your drunken marionette

Dragging his mess of threads

There at the bar pulling smoke to his lungs

He says, "Who will ignore me when you're gone?"

Come on lift me up

I wanna dance by your tin cup

A tower of beauty with a split in your tongue

"Who will ignore me when you're gone?"

He says, "Who will ignore me when you're gone?"

Here he comes

Here he comes

Be still the wooden heart

That wouldn't ever part

With the drunken marionette

Been mainlining bad thoughts

Been drinking things I wish I'd not

Intoxicated with sad songs

"Who will forgive you when I'm gone?"

They sing Auld Lang Syne

I've got mutiny on my mind

A guilty conscience means at least you've got one

"Who will forgive you when I'm gone?"

He says, "Who will forgive you when I'm gone?"

Here he comes

Here he comes

Be still the wooden heart

That wouldn't ever part

Who's waiting on a spark that hasn't happened yet

For the drunken marionette

Carry on and turn the lights low when you go

In the hours left

I hope you feel

The things that I know I won't

What you give is what you get

These days I worry about your debt

Who carries evil out

Evil will come

"Who will defend you when I'm gone?"

He says, "Who will defend you when I'm gone?"

Here he comes

Here he comes

Be still the wooden heart

That wouldn't ever part

Who's waiting on a spark

that hasn't happened yet

Here he comes

Here he comes

Be still the wooden heart

That wouldn't ever part

Who's waiting on a spark that hasn't happened yet

For the drunken marionette

Chords (this song is mostly that, there are a few lead parts but doing

all of them would require lots of patience)

Quarter moon on a city grown thick

With good advice that won't stick

From the ballrooms to the suburbs

And the abandoned mines

Atlantis may be rising but we're all out of time

Colored lights on the fire escape

Bodies move behind drapes

The light is uneven and we're safer in pairs

And we're no match for what's waiting

For each of us out there

Whistle baby, while we walk

Don't say anything, do not talk

The journey is over, it is time to exhale

Wherever we were going

We're already there

It's over the turnstiles and through the guardrails

And into Washington Square

Cause no amount of nightmares would ever compare

To the thought of only silence in this ghost filled air

Whistle baby, while we walk

Don't say anything, do not talk

The journey is over, it's too late to prepare

Why can't you see that, baby

We're already there

Here comes your silhouette

And more pillow talk

Here comes the ticking of these clocks

They say the quickest way to end a war is just to lose

Another chamber locks and I already withdrew

Here comes the booming and the hunger of each night

Here comes the burden of might

This day was not divinely made to leave you impressed

We may become someone someday, but we haven't yet

Whistle baby, while we walk

Don't say anything, do not talk

The journey is over, it's time to repair

Whatever we were building

We're already there

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Seems like the world's gone underground

Where no gods or heroes dare to go down

As teardrops from a hole in heaven come

Overhead like ravens dropping down like bombs

(G/g#)

Through the morning silver-frosted glow

God says nothing back but I told you so

I told you so

God bless the void of my daydreams

Head back in the snow making angel wings

As slow motion dancing lights at dawn

Sail beneath a burning yellow sun

I'm calling out from the deep ends of my bones

Time says nothing back but I told you so

I told you so

Still waters rising in my mind

Black and deep, smoke behind my eyes

Last night I could not sleep at all

I hallucinated that you were in my arms

To be in your heart I failed my own

Love says nothing back but I told you so

I told you so

(acoustic guitar solo, maybe someday i'll attempt it. Theres a lot

of double stops and it eases into a pentatonic i think)

Still here reclimbing every rung

Someone saw something

Someone speak up

Back over the rotted bridge I cross

Open up these graves, let these bodies talk

Buried under leaves blood red and gold

Death says nothing back but I told you so

I told you so

Notes: This song sounds great if you use arpeggios during the chords

Chords:

........ (x4) to verse

Feels like a ghost here in this room

Not the kind that rides a saddle in a costume

All around me, all around you

In from the window for a drag of your perfume

Let's move back to California

Let's make a promise, baby

Let's both be there

Put our feet deep in the sands

This garden's only got four corners

Back to your trenches, back to California

The days keep coming and the years overlap

Been crawling all over each other like wet cats

I hear the rebels yelling out in the dunes

And I don't think it's half as funny as I used to

Let's move back to California

Let's make a promise, baby

Let's both be there

Put our feet deep in the sands

Let's leave behind these maps and handguns

We're on our way back to California

We've got California in our eyes

Come on and catch us if you can

With California in our eyes

(intro)

Passing down through a valley full of lost sheep

Straight is the gate, narrow is the walkway

Mercury rising and poppies in bloom

This is the kind of thing that I can get used to

Let's move back to California

Let's make a promise, baby

Let's both be there

Put our feet deep in the sand

There's still no shortage in creating bad blood

We're on our way back to California

We've got California in our eyes

Come on and catch us if you can

With California in our eyes

Fast as we can

Back to California

Come on and catch us if you can

Back to California

Fast as we can

Back to California

Chords:

I'm here by my window

I am waiting for your parade

I will salute you

From above the crowd

As you make your way

You won the battle

You've won the war

I admit it now

I could not give any more

My condition is your reward

I building

Here without doors

The altitude is now

Getting to me

As they applaud you

On the boulevard

The whole valley looks like

Someone's body

All the people look like

Little scars

This day is taking

Forever

I will never say

Never say never again

The flesh around me

Is only pretend

Return to sender

Every letter

That is yours

I am sure

That I am a building

Here without doors

Fire blazing

On the overpass

Cattle grazing

In fields of dead grass

Last summer was earthquake weather

By November

This too should have passed

I am not moving

I am landlocked

I am looking through

A thousand windows spread across

A thousand floors

There in a landfill

Where Eden was before

But not anymore

I building

Here without doors

Did you see me waving to you from above

Things are looking clear now

My eyes are wide enough to see the way a sniper does

(back to verse chords)

Behind the barrel of a good gun

For worse or better

I surrender

It may not matter

But I'm sadder than you'll ever know

I am your inferno

Here all in yellow

With embers blowing north

No sense in returning

I'm not worried anymore

I building

That is here without doors

Chords

Fire on the porch on a summer's night

All of my things are there inside

Black smoke rise up, burn on burn higher

I smell leaves and burning tires

Dogs in the meadows barking wild

Blackbird rise up, tell me what have you done

I'm not drunk and I'm not sad

There's nothing inside that I want back

Let me touch your lips, let me see where you're at

Do you wonder how I am tonight

Then don't lose time looking in my eyes

Not every tear means you're gonna cry

From the bottom of my heart

Comes a cold dark feeling

There is nothing but dust

In the layers I'm peeling

From the bottom of my heart

Beats a rattling drum

Coming up from the depths

Into the rays of the sun

Now under crushing skies of grays

Paralyzed with phantom pains

Before this room became just a place

Where I just sleep through endless days

Spinning webs and carving names

Where thoughts break up, exploding in space

But I once crossed a quarter mile

Through black pools of razor wires

And cut through steel with the edge of a file

While singing rhapsodies in stride

Hell-bent and dignified

Now my time has come, "now who you fooling and why?"

From the bottom of my heart

Comes a cold dark feeling

There is eminent death

To the promise I'm keeping

From the bottom of my heart

Comes an army of one

Marching back up the steps

Into the rays of the sun

Pale-faced and hollowed eyes

Buried under ruptured skies

Not every smile means I'm laughing inside

Two-faced and compromised

I've enraptured you with lies

Everything means nothing and tonight everything is mine

From the bottom of my heart

Comes a cold dark feeling

I have buried so much

In the layers I'm peeling

From the bottom of my heart

A battle will come

Coming up from the depths

Into the rays of the sun

From the bottom of my heart

Comes a cold dark feeling

Wrapped around tight

With no sign of leaving

From the bottom of my heart

A ballad is sung

Through a whisper she comes

Into the rays of the sun

Note: The chords are the same throughout, if there is a specific

lick or lead part you want to know, just leave a message and i'll add it

Chords

(intro)

Last night I dreamt one thousand lies

I could see the dawn through a different set of eyes

There in my slumber passing time

Long live the world resting on its side

I walked the orchard with you

Your hand in my mine

In the evergreens drinking wine

I saw the snow fall in black and white

From the auburn sky

Last night I lived more than one thousand lives

Not one of them survived

Up through the earth and at dawn I came

I crossed the kingdom through venom pouring rain

In the vacuum of my own brigade

Resurrected to make you mine again

Orpheus looked back once

She sailed the underworld

No second chances will be earned

I have returned as a phantom now

To walk the bow and stern

Last night I lived more than one thousand lives

Not one of them survived

If we could do better I know that we would

Maybe admit it now, we're not that good

We keep the needle between zero and one

You play your fiddle, baby, I'll play dumb

(piano solo use verse chords)

Into the pastures of our minds

Goes my nearly beloved and I

Blazing two parallel white lines

Through this broken heart spilt open wide

Time might be on my side

But it's mostly far behind

I was the apple of your eye

Now I'm the boy spinning on a wheel there

Stuck with knives

Last night I lived more than one thousand lives

Not one of them survived

Note: There are variations of the intial intro throughout the song

Chords (essentially the same throughout)

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You'd have a wonderful day

If you could see how lucky you are

Now don't get carried away with your heart

You're better where you are

You're not the only one

Who's failed to hang on to a moving star

Now don't be sorry, what's done now is done

And this is who you are

These days feel numbered and long

There's no one to speak of

There's no one at all

But you're not the reason that everyone's gone

That's not how they are

There is no system to change

No conditions are made

No permissions to start

Now don't go drawing lines in the sand

That's not who you are

Sometimes a high wall is just a wall

Sometimes it's only there to make sure you feel small

Or may be there to save you from the depths of a much deeper fall

The truth will not set you free

It's okay to believe that you're not good enough

God is not angry, not blind, deaf or dumb

He knows how far you've come

Chords: (verses mostly the same, and end chorus is just extended)

New heaven over a brand new sky

New breed of wonder on the vine

Among the living

There is new promise in this night

New arms to hold back the revolution

New eyes to recognize what you've become

New blood to recover

A new will to honor all God's creations

All things are new again

Within and without

All things are new again

New shepherd roaming through the tall grass

A new temple rising through the falling ash

That buries the tracks

Of millions of boots marching in packs

Clearwater rolling through the dam's collapse

Out to the harbor where they're sailing back

New flag on the mast

Without any secrets, without any past

All things are new again

Within and without

Sooner or later the ending begins

Just then it can be said that all things are new again

New ghost returning to the earth beneath the haze

New poets burning through the lines of every page

I'm an unpainted portrait

I am staring at a new sunset

Without any memories yet

All things are new again

Within and without

Sooner or later the ending begins

Just then it can be said that all things are new again

Within and without

Sooner or later every season ends

Then forever it can be said that all things are new again