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Intro 1

C
C
F
F

Verse 1
C
C

F

Shakedown 1979,
C
C

F

cool kids never have the time
C
C

F
Dm

On a live wire right up off the street
G

You and I should meet
C
C

F

June bug skipping like a stone
C
C

F

With the headlights pointed at the dawn
C
C

F

We were sure
Dm
G

we'd never see an end to it all
Chorus 1
C
F

And I don't even care
C

to shake these zipper blues
F

And we don't know
C

just where our bones will rest
F

To dust I guess
Dm

Forgotten and absorbed
G

into the earth below
C
C
F
F

Verse 2
C
C

F

Double cross the vacant
C
C

and the bored
F

They're not sure
C
C

just what we have in store
F
D

Morphine city slippin' dues,
F

down to see
Chorus 2
C
F

That we don't even care,
C

as restless as we are
F

We feel the pull
C

in the land of a thousand guilts
F

And poured cement,
Bridge 1
G

lamented and assured
Am
F

To the lights and towns below
G
Am
F

Faster than the speed of sound
G
Am
F

Faster than we thought we'd go,
Dm
G

beneath the sound of hope
Verse 3
C
C

F

Justine never knew the rules
C
C

F

Hung down
C
C

with the freaks and ghouls
F

No a pologies ever need be made
C
C

F

I know you
Dm
G

better than you fake it, to see
Chorus 3
C
F

That we don't even care
C

to shake these zipper blues
F

And we don't know
C

just where our bones will rest
F

To dust I guess
Dm

Forgotten and absorbed
G

into the earth below
Verse 4
C
C

F

The street heats the urgency of now
C
C

F
C
As you see there's no one around

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  • Dm

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  • D

  • Am

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