TUNING
Tune down one half-step.
CHORDS
Note: Chords are diagrammed as played.
C/G: 332010
G: 320xxx
Em: 022xxx
Am7: xx201x
Em/B: x220xx
D/F#: 200xxx
Am/D: xxx21x
G/B: x2000x
C: x32010
D3: x54xxx
INTRO
eb|---------------------|
Bb|--1------------------|
Gb|--0------------------|
Db|--0------------------|
Ab|--2-------------5----|
Eb|--3----3--3/7--------|
C/G C/G G G Em Em C/G C/G G
VERSE 1
G C/G G
Leave the house, your lover and children
Em C/G G
Take the car, drive it down to the ocean
G C/G G
Cut your cards, burn the letters you were given
Em C/G G
With every word, they swore true love was hidden
Am7 C/G G
Tear apart your black suit, cut your hair to its roots
Em/B C/G G
Smoke your last cigarette, one last comforting breath,
CHORUS 1
C/G Em
Then you howl down that road
G D/F# Em
Where all your brothers and your sisters wouldn't go
Am/D G/B C
Dream of girls that made you feel fifteen
Am7 G/B C
With the palest skin and her mother's sympathy
D3 G
But that trail remains unseen.
C/G G Em Am7 C/G G
Woo - oo .. woo - oo - oo - oo
VERSE 2
G C/G G
Take the urn, spread its ash on the garden
Em C/G G
Every leaf will carry her love in summer
G C/G G
Turn the dial, let the long wave flutter
Em C/G G
Fighting static and song beneath the ether
Am7 C/G G
Under clear crescent moon, you hum along out of tune
Em/B C/G G
Every doubt is erased, spills out the car into space
CHORUS 2
C/G Em
Then you howl down that road,
G D/F# Em
Where all your brothers and your sisters wouldn't go
C/G G
As the fields turn to coast
G D/F# Em
Let the water scare away all of your ghosts
Am/D G/B C
Of the girls that you held at seventeen
Am7 G/B C
They had skinny waists and teenage liberty
D3 G
All these things that you have seen
Ab|-----------5----
Eb|--3--3/7--------
C/G G Em Am7 C/G G
Woo - oo .. woo - oo - oo - oo
VERSE 3
C/G Em
Every star, every stone
G C/G
Every soul you'll never know
C/G G
Spiraled out that great spark
G D/F# Em
To let us know that once we weren't so far apart
CHORUS 3
Am/D G/B C
Like the girls that made you feel sixteen
Am7 G/B C
How your brother's t-shirts hung above her knees
D3 G
All these things that you have seen
Ab|-----------5----
Eb|--3--3/7--------
C/G G Em Am7 C/G G
Woo - oo .. woo - oo - oo - oo