Jets To Brazil
King Medicine
Orange Rhyming Dictionary
1998 Jade Tree Records
Submitted by: jeremyunderground41@yahoo.com
Key: E
Tuning: Standard EADGBe
Chords used:
E - 022100
D - xx0232
B - x24442
C#m - x46654
A - x02220
Am - x02210
Intro:
E--D-B-C#m-E--D-B-C#m-A--Am-- x2
E-- x2
Verse 1:
E D
know that you'll soon
B E
go crazy just like a
D B A
whittling stick hit by
Am
the coming daylight cut
up in a quick succession
E D
a pointed confession
B E D
really stripped of all
B A
your armor down to your
Am
very nature beneath
E E
the haze and vapor gaze
Verse 2:
E D
you're such a willing
B E
stick to beckon that
D B
wanting knife you've
A
been looking for it
Am
the right blade all
E D
your life saying who's
B E
gonna cut me down to a
D B
size that suits me?
A
is there a worthy
Am
sculptor among all
E
you fine young knives?
Refrain 1:
D
it's enough to make
A
you take your head
B A E
and put it on a shelf
D
to cut the heart out
A
from your chest
B
now they'll come
A E
for that as well
Chorus 1:
F#m
tell me how you do
Am
that crazy trick
where you walk
E
around asleep
F#m
save it for your
doctor friend the
Am
one who keeps you
E E
under lock and key
Verse 3:
E D
you'll soon go screaming
B E
like a bargain basement
D B A
lunatic who's not so
Am
specialized that they
couldn't just replace
E D
you why don't you start
B E
crying for all that
D B
you've got left here
A
why don't you stop
Am
dying before you
E
go and get it right
Refrain 2:
D
now you're selling off
A B
the house so you can
A E D
buy the farm you cut
the heart out from
A
your chest to let the
B A E
light in through your arm
Chorus 2:
F#m
tell me how you do
Am
that crazy trick
where you walk
E
around asleep
F#m
save it for your
doctor friend the
Am
one who keeps you
E
under lock and key
Refrain 3:
D
it's enough to make you
A B
take your head and put
A E D
it in a bag to cut the
A
teeth out at the pink
B
now there's nothing
A E E C#m B A
in the bag
Interlude: C#m--A--F#m--A-- x2
Outro:
C#m A
foul weather friend you
F#m
are so dying an amateur
A C#m A
chemist now king medicine
F#m
when is it perfect? where
A
is it leading you? there
C#m A
is no cure only reprieve
F#m
some fleeting joy posing
A
as balance nothing is
C#m
sure so every four
A F#m
hours king medicine
A(hold)
this subject loves you