Amen Dunes

Skipping School

Amen Dunes


Tom: D

D               F#m
Woke up Sunday feeling good
D                         F#m
Though I'd try maybe stay high forever, yeah
A                       G
Drift along the Mekong, if I could
D                          F#m
Daddy was the coolest kid in school
D                          F#m
He was always in the alley sniffing glue, yeah
A                           G
Did it till his little lips turned blue
D                   F#m
See you in the park at dark
D                              F#m
Talking bad about the dad that you never knew, yeah
A                                 G
Talking about the things you said you'd do
D       F#m
Yes I'm sorry
D                       F#m
There's no use in being closed-hearted, yeah
A                               G
Guess you did the best that you could
D                        F#m
Got held up on my way to North Pigalle
D                              F#m
Must have got off in the wrong arrondissement
A                                         G
He said, one more stop and you would have found God
D                                       F#m
Out here on the road somewhere tonight, I don't know
D                                   F#m
But I'm doing fine, and the weather is good
A                         G
Go back and show you if I could
D                   E
I really got to go, yeah man
G
I already know
D            E
See them go, aw man
G
They already know
D                E
I don't think of it at all
G
'Cause dear, they are gone
D                 E
It's come head on before
G
They already know
D                     E
Yeah, I've been good, yeah
G
Aw, see them go
D
Get out and go
E                G
Fire off another round
D
Still I been gone
E               G
But I'm already gone
D                         E                                  G
Did you go into the door, way out purple kind of person with Perfect eyes
D                    E                   G
I said, well the way I'm going I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-
D            E
I-I-I-I been good man
G
Say I don't really know
D                                   E
Do they always fight until the love turns out to pick em up and
G
Burn them through before they go
D                      E
Now the sky's all red, elevated
G
And that's enough, to know it's time
D
Way I been going
E           G
I'm already gone