I can't have no objection to the world outside I don't have no complaints against life's one way ride I know I'm sleeping with an angel and this devil
What does it take to shut your cruel, cruel lips How could I have mistaken the kiss for a kiss? Of all the things you said to me, of all things to let
A man smokes and a dog stretches a woman works and a kid kvetches I'm ridin' on a road that stretches over the border to america Over the border to america
It worked much better in a fantasy Imagination's one thing that comes easy to me 'Cause this is nothing else if not unreal When I pretend to touch you
Pre intro e d (4 times) (played as barre chords 7th, 5th fret) Verse E d e d Yeah it's cold and hot and the rain came tumbling down like a wild
Pre intro - country picking oohs g em c d G em c am7 g Stuff comes down from the golden triangle on ferries from denmark to helsingborg
Pre this is reported to be played with open tuning but what tuning Exactly I don't know. I have created a simple version which Gets me by. it involves
I can feel it in the air I can smell you everywhere I don't know if you're receptive So l will play the love detective 'Cos when the bees buzz in the
Pre g 355433 G/b 335433 Intro g g/b c G g/b c G g/b c F g c G g/b c d I'll wait for someone to tell me what I already know G g/b c
Nothing can be further removed Not everybody wants to be soothed Ooh, they're out there now In their padded cells and armchairs Waiting for the nervous
Cold night air everywhere, holes in my feet and bats in my hair TV meals scattered 'round, glazed up eyes rolling through town And when night, black me
I wanna walk out the door I want to take the next bend This makes the nuclear war Seem like a personal friend The whites won't let you live The blacks
Pre the latest I looked at this was the live version on "the last rock and roll tour" - graham parker and the figgs. This version works fairly
You got to be kidding when you say your line is cast You got to be kidding when you say that this will last You got to be putting me on, you got to be
Don't let your head hang down like that As if there was something on the ground Something you are looking for You already found Whatever it is you're
Pre Verse G c g g c d g When you get inside my head it just goes emp ty G c g g c d g With all that junk I've been fed you'd think
Too late, the smart bomb I've got to beat the machine Too late, the smart bomb (Too late, the smart bomb) Too late, the smart bomb Too late, the smart
You have to do your best to come up to par From straight off the production line like a car Till everything you put on is a put-on And you don't know