Sweet Payne chords by
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Verse 1
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Payne Avenue lives up to its name
Some nights it's painful
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and strange
The whole city seemed
sane in the day
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But some nights it seems

Verse 2
distressed and deranged
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Em Em 
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The east side's where
we met with those guys
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That said they'd get us high,
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but that changed
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Now they're down in the
basement
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And they're bashing out his brains
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Kids are getting cut up with the
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mo torcycle chains

Verse 3
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And St. Paul had it all when we called
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And they were maxing out
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on medicine
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Shaved head and the blood on the bed
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And those guys you recognize,
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they got the same tattoos as Gideon

Verse 4
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Strong stuff and she had
more than enough
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And she was slumping over smiling
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C C 
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and  sailing off with cherubim
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The cityscape skins are kinda
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G G 
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kicking it again
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They're gonna show these

Verse 5
kids some discipline
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Gideon's been living up in Bay City,
Michigan
And he's been working at the Michelin
He got messed up with some messed
up magicians
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Verse 6
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We got so high some nights Michigan
looked just like a mitten
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Some nights we got fried
Strung out on residuals and
visuals and laser shows
Reach into the speaker and try
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to hold on to the quarter notes

Verse 7
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C C 
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I
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C C 
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always dream about a unified scene
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I  always dream about a unified scene
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Hey, there's James King and there's
King James and that's James Dean
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At a table in the corner of my unified scene

Verse 8
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They want a double order of
love and respect
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They said they just got back from up in Hostile,
Massachusetts
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And girl, I've seen your friend,
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she looks nothing like Jada Pinkett
I think you got something in those cigarettes
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Verse 9
Em Em 
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Gideon was living up in
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South Minneapolis
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He was the cowboy on the crosstown bus
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And all the little phillies at
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the Yukon Club
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Are gunning for the goldrush

Verse 10

We got tangled in electrical fences

We got wrapped up in the Indian fringes

All the little phillies at the Yukon Club

Are gunning for the goldrush

Outro 1
Yeah, they just can't get enough
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