Tom: D
[Intro Lick]
D* G
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B|--------3--5--3--------0----------------|
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D|----4------------4-----0----------------|
A|--5----------------5---2----------------|
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G C G
We passed 800 miles talking circles about living with loss
C G
You said your sense of humor's always helped you get above & across
G C G
Every hurdle, every chasm, every shocking & unspeakable blow
C
Just proves the universe is chaos so you laugh to clear the lump from your
G G/F#
throat
Em A*
But if you're fixed on being bitter
G A7
Go be bitter on your own
C
We're still two hours from El Paso
D* G
Arizona's such a long way to go
G C G
The chemicals were coursing through our bloodstreams at incongruous rates
C G
I was time-traveling inward through a past life I can never erase
G C G
You were hanging out the window, you said: 'We're just a beggar's banquet in space'
C G G/F#
You were laughing at the moon, you were cursing it for wearing your face
Em A*
Me & New Mexico are orphans
G A7
Or is it bastards? Either way:
C
I know a guy in Roswell
D* G
We'll hitch a moonride, steal you back your face
Interlude, Repeat Verse
Em A*
You sleep and whistle 'Blackbird' backwards
G A7
while my eyes cut her name in clay.
C
You wake to Mesa, Arizona
D* G
Say, 'Let it go. She'll change her mind someday.'
C
You took the wheel in Mesa, Arizona.
D*
Said, 'I got the rest, man.
G
You can drift away.'
