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1.
Far Off Places 03:36
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Bb Gm Cm7 Bb Gm Cm7 I might be drunk, I might be stupid. I might be bout mad enough to do it F7 Or I might be too far gone Bm Gm Cm7 Bm Gm Cm7 Gotta run, but I can’t walk straight, nowhere to be but I’m running late F7 Hope I didn’t keep you waiting long Eb Washed up stars, coming out too soon, the moon shine a little out of tune Bb Eb Bb Whole of heaven’s coming undone Eb Nothing to do and I haven’t even started, I write jokes for the brokenhearted Bb Eb Bb Everybody’s gotta have some fun Dm Cm I’ve got my sights set on far off places Bb Eb But I could close my eyes and probably still walk home Dm Cm There’s wild music in wide open spaces Bb Eb Bb And I talk to you even when I’m alone Tried to get rich, but here I am instead, I walk down the road shaking my head Talk to myself but I can’t agree You’ve got problems same as mine, we can solve half of them in twice the time You’re lucky you ran into me Look me in the eye and don’t you laugh, you can’t even sit still for a photograph Maybe I’ll never know what you look like I get caught up and can’t catch my breath, If everybody’s wrong I’m the only one left And that’s how I know that I’m right
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Getaway Car 03:59
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A A/Gsharp A/Fsharp B E You’re my getaway car A So I sure hope you show up A E Or you’ve got now until tonight to make up your mind A Gsharpm Lean across and open the door Fsharpm E On the passenger side just like before Gsharpm E A I won’t move from the place we said we’d meet A Gsharpm Fsharpm ‘Cause when I’m wondering where you are, E A Standing in the street A E I know I give myself away every time If I was a big movie star I’d know how to laugh on demand I could take your hand without messing up my line I would tell stories to the host And act like they were just anecdotes True professional, I’d never miss a beat But then pretending always is hard And with everyone I meet I know I give myself away every time D A Critics, please be kind DE Don’t pick on easy prey D A I never thought I’d find B B7 Myself up here today You’re my getaway car ‘Cause you could get away with anything At least if it was me I’d always let you off any crime Bring me a change of clothes And I’ll be someone nobody knows Doesn’t everybody always know too much? I can hear the beating of my heart Turn the music up a touch Cause I know I give myself away every time
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In Mexico 03:33
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D Bm The night was complex with desire, there was a humming in the wire Fsharpm A Something on the radio left nothing much to be said D Bm It’s hot in the sun, when you’ve done what I’ve done A Bm But I know where I can find some cool water for my head 
Fsharpm A I’ve been looking for you if you want to know where I’ve been A D I’m sorry if my heart has a little delay Fsharpm A In the driest patches, flowers like you never seen A E My voice catches in the draining hours of the day Set out from Oaxaca, headed up to Cuernavaca And we drove back down into Mexico City at dawn If you have trouble breathing in the heat of the evening You could either play guitar or you could pray for a storm Service stations with backdrops of mountains I feel a shaking in the road beneath I’ve been to a city older than us both by my counting And I walked out of there feeling sand between my teeth I’m young, but I’ve been younger, found love out of hunger Fruit pulp is seeping through the pages of my book I’m looking for my seat, wearing linen in the heat I’ve put a flower in my pocket and I can hardly bare to look The rippling city and a bitter taste at the bottom The horizon’s every detail was shadows in flame I saw a valley all full up of stars and a sky all empty of them And a straight line of sunset cross the window of the plane
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Music for Bartenders 04:26
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Bbm Ab I can’t remember most of my memories at all Ab Db I wonder if they still remember me Ab Db Ab But I’m not so lost, You can still find me Ab Bbm Db at the bar with the neon cactus sign If I’m not there it’s cause I’m not taking calls So that’s the only place I’ll ever be And I need someone to split the cost of my beer, thank you kindly Ab Eb Don’t sit behind me, cause that’s where Bbm Ab Db I keep all of my good times Db Ab Db I’m in the house band, we play every other night Ab Db Music for bartenders, then songs for turning out the lights Ab Db Ab Db Ab I dress like a coat stand, cause it’s cold by the door Ab Bbm Eb Db And stare out over what in another life would pass for a dance floor I’m looking through the screen of a vending machine Forgetting what I wanted in the first place If I had a ticket maybe I’d get on a train If I had a good enough reason I’d’ve gone The windows are never clean, but once they might’ve been Once I could’ve read my own face Dances and glances can’t be all the same And if they gave chances out for free, Who’s to say I wouldn’t’ve taken one I’m in the house band, we play every other night Music for bartenders, then songs for turning out the lights I dress like a coat stand, cause it’s cold by the door And stare out over what in another life would pass for a dance floor I sit around for a while, until someone gives me my cut Then the door swings open and the door swings shut But if I fall asleep John, don’t wake me up Cause my dreams are the closest thing to a life I’ve got
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Bear it in Mind 04:23
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Gsharpm Bm A E Like a lit fuse, the fire was eating up the crop rows Fsharpm A E A And the field was still burning when the moon was on the climb Gsharpm Bm A E I saw it from the train with school children taking videos A Gsharpm Fsharpm Csharpm Bm A E A And we watched it out of sight, the firefighters and the blaze I don’t believe how long ago you’re saying it was Come on I know I wasn’t the only one having a hard time It’s your side and mine and there’s never been a way across We’re just trying to make up for it in other ways Turn around face down another year There’s something burning between there and here E A All the lives I passed up on Are you mistaking me for someone? Two parts lucky, one part lonely If you’re sorry, well don’t be Only bear it in mind The television tells us to keep the curtains closed So I’m up before the city gets uncomfortable The shop window says it’s all’s gone when it goes As morning clears its throat for the high pitched notes of the early sun I give you a call cause I haven’t seen you in months You say life without you has just been wonderful (Want to change this line) I say what if I forgive you just this once Maybe I do want to be with you when all’s said and done Hard ground, turn around another year ‘Cause there’s something burning between there and here All the changes I passed up on Wouldn’t know me, now I’m gone Two parts lucky, one part lonely I guess I just thought you’d know me I’ll Bear it in mind
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Wisteria Vine 04:37
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Gm Bb Fm Eb Burnt myself on the hot iron, I went running, schoolbag flying Cm Eb Bb Ab I would tell you half of everything, but I don’t have near enough time Gm Bb Fm Eb Summers last forever, come and go, bad weather Cm Eb Bb Ab Squint my eye when it stings, over my shoulder, wisteria vine Bored half to death in assembly, I dreamt the classroom was empty Hands on the coins in my pocket, waiting here in line If I could make a suggestion, you could try and answer the question I remember the day that we got it, untied thing, wisteria vine Ab F Dm Eb I might’ve known, by the way you changed your tone Ab Eb Bb Ab Three more bends and home, friends I couldn’t tell Ab F Dm Eb Light was unstitching thin curtains in the kitchen Ab Eb Bb Ab The night I tend to alone, a little at a time, fall and climb, The phone it rang like a tremor, always, as I remember Get, I’ll catch you yet, in your boat and row, clear of mine Pull out my chair, open the drawer, as I wander out the door Circumstance, in your own time, hangs and grows, wisteria vine I learned to count by numbers, the endless unfolding summers In the shed, pretend I’m grown, f’I’d’ve known you were here all the time Against the glass, sunlight pushes, declaring war on the bushes Said I’ll be your friend if you leave me alone, return again, wisteria vine If was late but still light, when you said goodnight As the hours went out of sight, lost out in the courtyard I set myself to concentrating, I played at patiently waiting The words I learnt to write, a little at a time, to call them mine
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Sunset Garage 05:41
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C Am/C G/C F/C C I couldn’t watch another car pull in Too long working at the sunset garage So I picked up my life and emptied out everything Only ‘cause everything was all I could manage Got onto a train that didn’t seem to have an end Worked things out so I couldn’t get back I thought of all the things I’d try and never do again But I was very careful to make no promises about that Took a room above the army surplus Took a little too long to find a job And I wandered around tired and nervous And I wandered into a blind spot G C F You all know, if you know anything G F C It’s hard to keep moving and it’s hard to keep still And if you’ve got a man, you’ll know it’s no use telling him Talking doesn’t kill you, like silence will You wouldn’t know it to look at me now But I once went all out looking to make friends I started drinking too much, and laughing too loud And I didn’t worry how the night was gonna end Hey, I’ll meet you on Friday at the lock-up Cause tomorrow the boss is is going away We could both do with some money in our pocket We’ll only take what he’s supposed to pay You ask why don’t I ever call home Well just cause they don’t ever call me You said do you want me to leave you alone, I can do that, Just keep driving if I fall asleep You all know, if you know anything It’s hard to keep moving and it’s hard to keep still And if you’ve got a man, you’ll know it’s no use telling him Talking won’t kill you, but silence will I met somebody and then we were always together And then we weren’t together anymore Never hang up all your hopes on another You need to keep some friends around that’s for sure And so I went all out looking for some I started drinking too much, and laughing too loud But I thought maybe someday somebody else will come And they’ll know exactly what I’m talking about now You took some time to get used to And I know I took some life out of us But now I don’t ever want to lose you And so I’m running to catch that bus
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Staying On 02:00
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Db Ab It’s hardly lighter than dark, and she speaks at last She says when did you wake up? I had the strangest dream “Feel like we already are decades in the past And If they ask, just say I needed a change of scene” Let goodbyes be byegones I reckon I’m reconciled Ab Eb I could never leave cause I’d forget the way I’d gone Anyway she’s going somewhere at least she says for a while Ab Eb Ab And I guess I’ll be staying on Here come the colours, just when nobody’s asking You know it’s unkind to be so clever around me Guess my ass lasted longer than love everlasting But it hasn’t been so bad, at least as far as I can see Sometimes you can have to much of someone’s company If it were up to me I wouldn’t miss a day We’ll we’re in and out of touch as far as I can see We were always sort of close in a kind of distant way

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