King Of Dust
From the album Unseen
[INTRO]
N.C.
[VERSE 1]
C F C G C C7
I dreamed that I was flying above the glittering world,
F C G C
but I woke up in the bar ditch, car ready to explode
F C F C
Hanging upside down in the front seat of my truck
F C G C C7
The scream of grinding metal, 40 cars piling up
[CHORUS]
F C E Am G
Nothing rusts in the desert. The air is full of ghosts
F C G C C7
Cliffs painted with the old gods, rabbit brush full of bones
F C G Am G
Oh, Coronado, king of dust, the desert never cared what you saw
F Fm C
when you stared into the sun
[INTERLUDE]
C
[VERSE 2]
C F C G C C7
Ancient oceans have been lost beneath this shifting clay
F C G C
where conquistadors in silver hunted Cibola across the plains,
F C F C
but there are no golden cities, only trailer parks and dust,
F C G C C7
and angels only fly here when you drive into the sun
[CHORUS]
F C E Am G
Nothing rusts in the desert. The air is full of ghosts
F C G C C7
Cliffs painted with the old gods, rabbit brush full of bones
F C G Am G
Oh, Coronado, king of dust, the desert never cared what you saw
F Fm C
when you stared into the sun
[OUTRO]
C