1. |
Lose Your Voice
02:29
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Cm D/Cm D#
I won’t waste my time
G# D# A#
Hanging with this crowd
D# G# D# A# D#
‘Cause you lose your voice when you talk so loud
Cm D/Cm D#
Would you follow me?
G# D# A#
When you’re not so proud?
D# G# D# A# D#
When you lose your voice ‘cause you talked so loud
G#m
I’ll paint the walls with your shadow
D# A#
Please never go
G#m
But shadows won’t keep us together
D# A# G# D#
What did I do/ What did I do/ What did I do?
D# A# G#m D#
What did I do/ What did I do/ What did I do?
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2. |
So Long Blondes
03:47
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D# G7 G# G#m G# G#m
D# A#
On with the days
D# G#
In a matching beret
D# A# D# A#7
From a movie that was filmed in black & white
D# A#
She works the floor
D# G#
In a corner bookstore
D# A# G# D#
Since she heard that its the kind of thing you do
A# D#
Late nights spent outside the Bowery Ballroom
G# A# A#7
With some actress without a name
D# G7 G# G#m
Will you listen when I'm gone?
G# G#m D#
So Long Blondes
D# A# D# G# D# A# G# D#
[chords same as above verse]
Won’t leave my head
Was it something I said?
No – it’s something else instead she’ll never say
She was once told
That you never grow old
You just keep on coming up with things to do
Broken hearts in time can be forgotten
Backwards faces racing the clock
D# G7 G# G#m
Will you listen when I'm gone?
G# G#m D# D#7
So Long Blondes
G#
Of nostalgic tales of centuries
G#m
I'm growing gray with guilty pleas
D# D#7
'Cause you always need someone to drive you home
F
The couples play the darts alone
G#
With Madame Ray who's good as gold
A#
'Cause you think you're so smart - too clever by half
A#7
Well its once and never again
D# G7 G# G#m (x2)
D# G7 G# G#m
Will you listen when I'm gone?
D# G7 G# G#m
And do you remember when we used to be young?
D# G7 G#
Will you listen when I'm gone?
G#m G#m
So Long
D# A#7 D#
Blondes
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3. |
Your Summer Song
03:09
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Am
Go on go on - she’s holding train ticket passes
clutching suitcases packed up with purple wayfarer glasses
Bm
When everything is wrong
C#m Am
Your summer song
I’m dodging questions like a Julliard dancer
Moving up to the coast to leave you without an answer
When everything is wrong
Your summer song
I learned the story of a senator’s vices
Said I swear to God - he said “I've never met him”
When everything is wrong
Your summer song
The television tells us what we’ve been missing
you see the homo-eroticism of televised fishing
When everything is wrong
Your summer song
On to the next one
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4. |
Damon Sierocki
01:13
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5. |
The Politician
04:46
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The tape recorder tapes up my quotes
To news reporters with corporate notes
I’m shake-shake-shaking as I’m cutting throats
I’ll kill two men for four men’s votes
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6. |
Losing Your Mind
02:42
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Dm
F Dm F Dm
Moving along Graham Avenue
F Dm A7
Losing your mind in your new place
Dm (Dm7) F
Oh, what a day
All of your friends have since moved away
Losing your mind in your new place
Oh, what a day
A# A#m F
Nobody knows the things that you do - you’re much too fast to be 22
Dm A7
Make some new friends
Dm (Dm7) F
Oh, what a day
F Dm
She reads her lines on the subway
A7
She plays the part so well
A# A#m
Everyone hears
F
The strain in her voice
Dm
The stories she told
A7
Why can’t you hear me now?
A# A#m
I’m screaming to you
F Dm (Dm7)
Losing your mind
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7. |
FM
03:29
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C C# D D#
Lights and urban vegetables - I’m shaking like a skeleton
I dabble with telepathy - I’m playing with adrenaline
A symbol tells me what to say hallucination poetry
The taser wrapped into my skull of literary accolades
Collapse is momentarily to circus freak diplomacy
The jackolantern cosmonauts are floating to the funeral
And I'm not in your living room and I'm not in your minivan
I'm not here to tell you stories I'm a broken fireman
I’m a broken fireman
Driving in a minivan
I’m a broken fireman
Talking like a garbage can
See my past computer screens of future electricity
Of Eastern sensibility of martial law brutality
I’m sick of handgun legacies I’m sick of sensibility
I’m sick of electricity I’m sick sick sick emergency
I’m a broken fireman
Driving in a minivan
I’m a broken fireman
Talking like a garbage can
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8. |
Company Dime
03:41
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G
Walking in on the job at the factory line
C Em7 A Em7 G
With my ears still ringing from the beep beep of the alarm
“Late again,” says the boss as shes counting her change
I got a nice haircut and a briefcase made out of bricks
C D
I can’t work for the company dime no more!
C D
Waste your life - and the rest you can sell
G
Everybody sweats when they burn in Hell
12 o’clock comes the boss - try to look like you care
Costco’s sneaking out the back door exit again
How she brags of her life - isn’t she very cool?
Anything you had has long since moved to the suburbs
I can’t work for the company dime no more!
Waste your life - and the rest you can sell
Everybody sweats when they burn in Hell
C (C#/C)
Eighteen and you got no place you can go
D D7
Sometimes you gotta lose everything that you know
This girl’s from Barcelona
She told me that she knows you
Her brother drinks Corona, now he’s moved to Arizona
Shooting his politics at the passersby
And I can’t work for the company dime no more
[coda with alternating D & G chords]
I don’t want the business - I just want the soul
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9. |
Every Note
03:42
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Gm riff
D
Wired again
Gm D
Seems to be taking my time
Gm Em
Too much the same then you die
A7
D
You die
Gm D
I go to places you won't
Gm Em A7
Doing the things that you don't
Em A7
You don't
D D/C D/B
I don't want to be left in the corner
D D/C G
But I don't want to stop 'till I've won
D D/C D/B
And I hope that one day I'll stop running
D/C D/B D
But I've fought for every note I've sung
Tear me apart
Fort Worth is still on my mind
Brooklyn won't leave me behind / My mind
D D/C D/B
I don't want to be left in the corner
D D/C G
But I don't want to stop 'till I've won
D D/C D/B
And I hope that one day I'll stop running
D/C D/B A
But I've fought for every note I've sung (x3)
[instrumental middle with A G/A A G chords, then chorus]
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10. |
I Don't Want To Grow Old
04:41
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A D Dm
Do you look the same as last November?
A D Dm
When you walked away - I’m half remembered
A G#/A F#/A E/A D
I don’t want to grow old - I just want to stay over
Dm
and be with you tonight
A G#/A F#/A E/A D
When the things that you hold keep on holding you over
Dm7
you won’t remember
A G# G F# F E
A
Now I’m in Los Angeles - living with a journalist
D Dm
I’m not paranoid I’m just misquoted
A
Are you singing to yourself - when you’re in a crowded room?
D Dm
Playing songs that you don’t know the words to?
Bm D A
Think you’ve got me figured out - like the other times before?
E E7
Wake me up when you get here (close)
Bm D A
(You) She had given me the clues written in a magazine
E D/E C/E B/E
That I never learned to read
I don’t want to grow old - I just want to stay over
and be with you tonight
When the things that you hold keep on holding you over
please don’t go tonight
[instrumental bridge before going into E D/E C/E B/E A/E G#/E F#/E E]
[repeat chorus]
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11. |
The Muse
02:36
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C Fm C
Would you ever sing to me
C Fm C
All the things that you can’t say?
C Fm C
Staring at the crowds below
C Fm C
Crowded streets and we’re alone
Fm C
But when we close our eyes
Fm
And I listen to you
Am G/Am F#/Am Fm
When you sing everything means the world
C Fm C
I don’t know what to do
Fm Fm(maj7) C
‘Cause I love / love you
C Fm C
I don’t want to see you go
C Fm C
And you don’t have to let me know
C Fm C
I’m an actor playing a part
C Fm C
Were you even here from the start?
Fm C
But when we close our eyes
Fm
And I listen to you
Am G/Am F#/Am Fm
When you sing everything means the world
C Fm C
I don’t know what to do
Fm Fm(maj7) Am G/Am F#/Am
‘Cause I love / love you
Fm Fm(maj7) C
‘Cause I love / love you
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