Verse 1:
A Emaj7 E
Shakedown nineteen seven nine
A Emaj7 E
Cool kids never have the time
A F#m7
On a live wire right up off the street
B
You and I should meet
Verse 2:
A Emaj7 E
Junebug skipping like a stone
A Emaj7 E
With headlights pointed at the dawn
A
We were sure we'd never see
F#m7 B
An end to it all
Chorus 1:
E Emaj7 Amaj7 E
And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues
Emaj7 Amaj7 E
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
Emaj7 Amaj7
To dust I guess
F#m7 B E
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
Verse 3:
A Emaj7 E
Double cross the vacant and the bored
A Emaj7 E
They're not sure just what we have in store
A F#m7 A
Morphine city slippin' dues down to see
Chorus 2:
E Emaj7 Amaj7 E
That we don't even care as restless as we are
Emaj7 Amaj7 E
We feel the pull in the land of a tousand guilts
Emaj7 Amaj7
And poured cement
B
Lamented and assured
Bridge:
C#m A
To the lights and town below
B C#m B
Faster than the speed of sound
B C#m A F#m7 B
Faster than we thought we'd go beneath the sound of hope
Verse 4:
A Emaj7 E
Justine never knew the rules
A Emaj7 E
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls
A Emaj7 E
No apologies ever need be made
E F#m7 B
I know better than you fake it to see
Chorus 3:
E Emaj7 Amaj7 E
That we don't even care to shake these zipper blues
Emaj7 Amaj7 E
And we don't know just where out bones will rest
Emaj7 Amaj7
To dust I guess
F#m B Emaj7 E
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
Coda:
A Emaj7 E
The street heats the urgency of now
A E
As you see there's no-one around