Key: E major
Intro 1
E
Verse 1
Bsus4
A
E
She carries baskets of clothes
A
Bsus4
A
to a laundromat
A
E
And they laugh in a language
Bsus4
A
But I love them
A
E
Verse 2
So the neighborhood is dimming,
A
Bsus4
I smoke on the porch
A
G#m
Watch the people as they pass
G#m
B
I could of fer them
Bsus4
A
Bsus4
E
A
A con solation,
E
A
E
what could I offer them?
When they are sad in their suburbs,
A
Bsus4
A
robots water the lawn
Verse 3
A
Bsus4
gets dusted spotless
F#m
A
Bsus4
A
Bsus4
touched anything at all
A
G#m
E
While the cars in the
A
Bsus4
driveway only multiply
A
E
They are lost in their houses
Verse 4
F#m
A
I have heard them sing in the shower
E
G#m
E
making speeches to their
A
E
Saying, "You come home
Woman, you come here
A
Bsus4
Don't stay so far away from me"
A
G#m
This weather
Verse 5
has me wanting
A
Bsus4
A
E
A
Something I can hold
E
A
E
because it's getting cold
F#m
E
I say hold up our fists to
B
Bm
A
the flame in the sky
F#m
E
To block out the light that is reach
Bm
B
A
ing for our eyes
Verse 6
A
us
I have locked my actions in the
A
B
A
Bsus4
grooves of routine
A
E
G#m
So I may never be free
B
Bsus4
of this apathy
Verse 7
F#m
A
for a letter that is coming to me
B
G#m
She sends me pictures of the
B
Bsus4
ocean in an envelope
Yes, I can be healed
B
G#m
In my secret drawer,
in my pockets deep
A
B
You will find the reason s that
E
A
And you will still want me
E
A
But will you still want me?
A
E
Verse 8
F#m
E
Well, I say come for the week
Bm
A
You can sleep in my bed
F#m
E
And pass through my life like
B
Bm
B
A
a dream through my head
E
A
It will, it will be easy
A
E
Verse 9
But all I have for the moment
E
B
A
Bm
A melody to keep me from worrying
Verse 10
F#m
A
Bsus4
A
my fingers busy
E
G#m
E
And words that are sure to
G#m
B
Bsus4
come back to me
B
A
And they will be laughing
E
A
and they will be laughing
My mediocrity
E
Verse 11
A
E
My mediocrity
Outro 1
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E
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E
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