FM7
What jesus can't fix tonight
C
The whiskey certainly might
FM7 C
I must have said the lord's prayer 65 times
Am
And thought of your face
G
Our infinite grace
Am
All of the ways to behold you
G
Until the tide will I wait
C
Even an ugly man
G
Could kiss your lips
F(M7)
As if they were his to demand of
Am G
Or his to destroy like a lover of a demon (x 2)
(Pareil couplet refrain)
What loving won't fix tonight
The whiskey certainly might
I must have whispered your name 65 times
My lips on your face
In our infinite grace
All of those ways to behold you
Until the tide will I wait
Wait
Even an ugly man
Could kiss your lips
As if they were his to demand of
Or his to destroy like a lover of a demon (x 4)
Intro : Em
D C
I wish the telephone had not been invented
G
Cause I keep picking it up to say
D
Stupid things to you
Am
The rain has stopped for now
G
But I know it's not ended
D
No sense in trying
I cannot be protected
C
No sense in worrying
I can't be protected
D
No sense in trying
I cannot be protected
C
Yeah
Em D
Wonderful and sad
Am
How can you be so
G
Wonderful
I wish that happiness could just be pretended
The closest thing to that is
A bottle of whiskey dear
I'd write a letter home
But I don't know where to send it
No sense in trying
I cannot be protected
No sense in worrying
I can't be protected
No sense in trying
I cannot be protected
Wonderful and sad
How can you be so
Wonderful (x 2)
No sense in trying
I cannot be protected
No sense in worrying
I can't be protected
Wonderful and sad
How can you be so
Wonderful (x 2)
Am...
Am
Gather at the church
Say a quiet prayer
F
Hold each other's hands
C G
Praying that you might be there
Am
In honesty and peace
F Dm
With the whispers of your god
F Dm
Falling on your ear
Am
Falling on your ear
Melt your silver down
Kiss your lover's face
The sirens start to sound
And you're caught up in the only place
Where the honesty of fear
Makes a battle like a song
Falling on your ears
Falling on your ears
F
This is anger as beauty
C
Anger as beauty
Dm
Anger as beauty
F
This is anger as beauty
C
Anger as beauty
Dm
Anger as beauty
Fighter soul alive
In a whiskey fueled rage
The tears burn in your eyes
The saddest of the souls to save
Sings lovely in its fear
With a voice that's
Broken/strong
Falling on your ears
Falling on your ears
This is anger as beauty
Anger as beauty
Anger as beauty
This is anger as beauty
Anger as beauty
Anger as beauty (x 2)
Dm...
Bm
Lover don't you wait
Lover you'll be safe
G
Strangest quiet in the streets
D
Fighters for the love
A
Dug deep
Bm
They're under paved ports
G Em
Gently lifting up a song
G Em
Falling on your ears
Bm
Falling on your ears
G
This is anger as beauty
D
Anger as beauty
Em
Anger as beauty...
F, Csus*, Bb
F Csus
The brake lights
Bb
Are really quite lovely
F Csus
Thousands of souls
Bb
All Stopping together
F
On the highway tonight
Csus Bb
There's no reason to cry out your eyes (x 2)
The city
Starts fading behind us
Thousands of souls
Wishing things were better
Sadness
Is waiting to happen
For people like us
Not sure where they're going
On the highway tonight
There's no reason to cry out your eyes (x 2)
C
Watching the fading
Bb
Watch everything go by
Everything go by
Everything go by
C
Watching the fading
Bb
Watch everything go by
Everything go by
Sadness
Is waiting to happen
But we have our eyes
Set dead on the ocean
On the highway tonight
There's no reason to cry out your eyes
(on the highway)...
* : 033010
Intro : Am
F Dm
F
And we kiss alone
In the parked car
At least I think so
Dm
There's a flashlight waving
Out somewhere
You can see it down the road
F
And the saddest part
Is that we mean so well
Don't want to hurt nothing
Dm
Don't want to hurt
This fragile love we know
Cause there is nothing left to hold
F
And we prayed that night
And you said to me
"don't you worry baby
Dm
The worst has come and the worst will go
and there's nothing we don't know"
F
I'll believe you then
But you know me
And I, I always think the worst
Dm
So be satisfied
And it's hard but i'll try
Am F Dm Am
To not romanticize the automobile (x 2)
F
So come with me then
By the lakeside
Smell the death there
Dm
Where a plane did fall
And boat sunk too
You'll be terrified to know
F
That I fantasize
About a way to die
Nothing glorified
Dm
Someone falls asleep
On a late night road
Like a mercy for us both
F
I'll believe you then
But you know me
And I, I always think the worst
Dm
So be satisfied
And it's hard but i'll try
Am F Dm Am
To not romanticize the automobile (x 3)
F
I'll believe you then
But you know me
And I, I always think the worst
Dm
So be satisfied
And it's hard but i'll try
Am F Dm Am
To not romanticize the automobile...
C#m
G#m
F#m
B
C#m G#m
Come, come over here
F#m B
Whisper into my ear
C#m G#m
Don't, don't waste your breath
F#m
On anyone else
B
But me
C#m
And warm
G#m
Your body in bed
F#m C#m
Let us wake up and talk a while
C#m G#m
I, I tell you i'm scared
F#m
I tell you i'd fight for
B
Us both
C#m G#m
But you come from the town
F#m B
Where ghandi was born
C#m G#m
You say I always tough
F#m
When I get drunk
B
So why don't we pray
C#m
Whispering the
G#m
Future language of slaves
F#m
Future language of slaves
B
Future language of slaves
C#m G#m
I should rejoice
F#m B
Maybe give voice to a song
C#m G#m
For what brought me here to your arms
F#m B
Into your painfully true love
C#m G#m
And god maybe close
F#m
God only knows
B
Really to say
C#m G#m F#m
And what, what would we do in our last moments
B
In time
C#m G#m
Would, would we make love
F#m B
Or make haste to a mobile phone
C#m G#m
Or would we break bread
F#m
Drink the blood that is shed
B
And pray to our god
C#m
Whispering the
G#m
Future language of slaves
F#m
Future language of slaves
B
Future language of slaves
C#m
Whispering the
G#m
Future language of slaves
F#m
Future language of slaves
B
Future language of slaves
etc...
F#m Bm
F#m Bm C#
F#m
In your underclothes
You went out for a smoke
Bm
I call you in
Just before the storm begins
F#m
Your last breath of smoke
You let out in the room
Bm
It makes a cloud
Like the greyist
C#
Perfect plume
F#m
Smoke baby, smoke baby
More alcohol baby
Bm
Cocaine in Montreal
And back out on a plane baby
F#m
An early flight will leave
And on it will be me
Bm
I'll be half asleep
C#
And you'll get up at three
F#m Bm
(Who gave you time to cry? Who gave you time to find yourself?)
F#m
Casual as a light
Flickers before it's night
Bm
Sadness comes
And the daylight turns and runs
F#m
As the sun is setting you'll be betting
I'll be getting through
Bm
I'll find a payphone baby
C#
And take a minute to talk to you
F#m
Smoke baby, smoke baby
More alcohol baby
Bm
Cocaine in Montreal
And back out on a plane baby
F#m
An early flight will leave
And on it will be me
Bm
I'll be half asleep
C#
And you'll get up at three
F#m Bm
(Who gave you time to cry? Who gave you time to find yourself?)
F#m Bm
(Who gave you time to cry? Who gave you time to find yourself?)
(F#m)
And I have never felt
Quite this close to hell
Bm
All this rock and roll baby
Only time will tell
F#m
But we're young now, having fun now
On the town now, Get around now
Bm
It's fine for now
But someday we'll settle down
C#
But not now, baby
F#m
Smoke baby, smoke baby
More alcohol baby
Bm
Cocaine in Montreal
And back out on a plane baby
F#m
An early flight will leave
And on it will be me
Bm
I'll be half asleep
C# F#m
And you'll get up at three
E
(Somewhere on the outside.)
Bm F#m E
(Who gave you time to cry? And time to find yourself?)
G D
You can tell by the wind
Am
By fresh cut wood
C
All stacked to dry
G
That autumn's here
D
It makes you sad
Am
About the crumby
C
Summer we had
G
With pine trees creeking
D
The raven's screeching
Am C
Just like the story my grandma tells
G
About when a bird
D
Hits your window
Am
And someone you know
C
Is about to die
G
Autumn's here
D
Autumn's here
Am C
It's OK if you want to cry
G
Cause autumn's here
D
Autumn's here
Am C
Autumn's here
G
So find a sweater
D
And you'll be better
Am C
Until the kindling is tinder dry
G
We can be quiet
D
As we walk down
Am
To see the graveyard
C
Where they are now
G
I wonder how
D
They brought their piano
Am
To haldane hill
C
From old berlin
G
Be hard to keep it
D
Well in tune
Am
With winters like the one
C
That's coming soon
G
Cause autumn's here
D
Autumn's here
Am
It's time to cry now
C
Autumn's here
G
Autumn's here
D
Autumn's here
Am
It's OK if you want to cry
C
Cause autumn's here
Bb
C
Bb
C
G
I think that ghosts like
D
The cooler weather
Am
When leaves turn colour
C
They get together
G
And walk along these
D
These old back roads
Am
Where no one lives
C
And, and no one goes
G
With all their hopes set
D
On the railway
Am
That never came
C
So no one stayed
G
I guess that autumn
D
Gets you remembering
Am
And the smallest things
C
Just make you cry
G
Autumn's here
D
Autumn's here
Am C
Autumn's here...
G
Cause Autumn's here
D
It's time to cry
Am
Autumn's here
C
Wooh ooh ooh
G
Cause Autumn's here
D
It's OK now
Am C
Autumn's here
etc...
C G Am
I'm tired of all the snow and the cold
F C G
I think that I might take us both to Mexico
C G Am
The term is now we're getting old
F C G
We should just hop on a plane to Mexico
F C
Wear some flowers in your hair
F C
Dug from the dirt there would be a prayer
F C G
Oh, we'll all take time to die in Mexico
C....
F
In Mexico
C G
Where the warmth can be a healing
F
In Mexico
Am G
Oh the ocean breathes a feeling
F
In Mexico
C G
Where our body's unconcealing
F Am G
In Mexico oh...........
I'm tired of seing you
Bundled up in all those clothes
I think we might look sexier
In Mexico
But it's the sadness of being where
Confessions are made to bear
All the darkness and the light
That we both know
But in Mexico
Where the warmth can be a healing
In Mexico
Oh the ocean breathes a feeling
In Mexico
Where our body's unconcealing
In Mexico
We'll all take time to die in Mexico
