Key: B major
Verse 1
New
York when I was 18.
The week before I left, there was a
Stephen
King
TV movie on.
The story was very apocalyptic.
Disease has taken over the human
race and
turned people crazy and there was mass hysteria,
and most everyone dies.
Part of the story
takes place in
New
York
City. I remember watching stampeding hordes of
people trying to escape
their inevitable death.
The tunnels and bridges clogged,
and I'll find
During the same
time, I read a book called
Black
Dawn by
Day.
I bought the book in a shop
in downtown
Baltimore after school one
day.
The hippie cashier saw the book, touched my head, and solemnly said,
You know, you're never going to live to be
my age.
Do you know what that book is about,
he asked.
I nodded yes.
Some day I'll write of the
Native
American prophecies that state the passage
of this world into the next.
There's a map in the book that shows where the safest places will be and also places in the country where there will be things like toxic waste spills,
rioting, drought, floods, and disease.
I came to
New
York believing the situation
did not look good.
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After high school I told people my plan was to get the hell out before the year 2000,
before all this shit went down.
G
New
York believing these things come true slowly
day by day as I spend and expend.
The root difference now is I believe more in the importance
of my inner reality than I do in escape plans.
I also believe more and more that this idea of a pure place,
untouched by the mistakes of our human race, does not exist anymore.
Over the time I find it and scrounge up enough cash to go there,
it will already be extinct.
That this idea of a pure place, untouched by the mistakes of our human race,
does not exist anymore.
But by the time I find it,
I'm scrammed at the next task.
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Jump first and don't ask questions
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First place to all who come
This is the town of futures
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We're the starting gun
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F#m
A
Am
D
We don't pray to a high power
Am
F#m
A
Am
We just watch out for fallen
D
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towers
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Bm
You're a song that keeps me holy
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The greatest love of all
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I'll miss the ceremony
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Of
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every spring an d fall
F#m
Am
D
We don't pray to our power
Am
F#m
Am
We'll just watch out for
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Em
G
Fallen towers
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C
Am
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E
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C
Em
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C
Am
Bm
E
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C
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Em
G
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First place to all who come
G
Bm
This is the town of futures
G
Bm
We're
G
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the starting gun
F#m
A
Am
D
We don't pray to a high power
Am
F#m
A
Am
We just watch out for
Bm
Em
G
fallen towers
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You
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