Am G Em G Am C Em D
[Pre-Chorus]
Am Em G Am D G Am
Aw it's dark outside
Em G Em Am G C
i've been trying to get a ride
D Am G Am D C
While my body waits, my body waits
Bm Am G Am C
America warm my face
Bm Am G C Am
i've been trying to turn the page
[Chorus]
G Bm Am
Once I was a little boy,
G Am
staring at my shoes
G C Am D
You came along and found me in the chicken coop
C Am
But time takes over, I can't say when
C D
Time takes over, may we do it again
[Verse 1]
G Am
Take me to the beachhead let's go over
D
All of those rocks at the end of the road
G Am Em
And take me down to main street with no clothes on with our bare feet on the
C G Am Em
Painted yellow lines with our shadows far behind us
C G Am D
Broke into that summer school and fooled around on the infirmary cot
C G Am Em
And we can be like all those fairies making their rain angels in the eddies
C G Am Em
And I have no expectation just an adolescent heart
[Bridge]
Am C G C Em D Am
[Pre-Chorus]
Am C Am D
Aw it's dark outside
Am Em Am Em C
i've been trying to get a ride
D Am G Am G Am
While my body waits, my body waits
Bm Am G C G C
America warm my face
Bm Am Em C Am
i've been trying to turn the page
[Chorus]
G Am C
Once I was a little boy,
Em G Am
staring at my shoes
G C Am D
You came along and found me in the chicken coop
C Am
But time takes over, I can't say when
C D
Time takes over, may we do it again
[Verse 2]
G Am
Take me to the beachhead let's go over
D
All of those rocks at the end of the road
G D Am
Help me down the seawall let's find Marci
Em C G
See if she got that invitation to the movie,
Am Em
the one where the kids break out of juvie
C G Am D
And then by their own admission they go and turn themselves all in
C G
Just as they get there to the station,
Am Em
The young one wheels and begs the pavement
C G Am D
For brother speed to make arrangements with the spirits of the night
[Verse 3]
G Am
Take me to the race track let's go bet on
C D
Aw the one that no one expects to win and
G Am D Em C
Let's bet on the skinny horse he will surely try the hardest to come in first
G Am Em
I bet you for the winner they put on some kind of fancy dinner
C G
Let's be like those Philadelphia sisters
Am D
That have prayed straight for a hundred years
C G Am Em
I have no expectation, just to be here in the present
C G Am D
And behold you for a second before it all goes away
[Outro]
Em
Haa ah ahh ah ahh ah ahh ah ah
C
Ahh ah ahh ah ahh ah ahh ah ah
Em
Ahh ah ahh ah ahh ah ahh
Am D
Before that all goes away
Em
Haa ah ahh ah ahh ah ahh ah ah
C
Ahh ah ahh ah ahh ah ahh ah ah
Em
Ahh ah ahh ah ahh ah ahh ah ah
Am D Em C
Ahhh ahhh and those painted yellow lines with our shadows far behind
Em Am D
Broke into that summer school and fooled around on the infirmary cot
Em C
We can be like all those fairies making their rain angels in the eddies
Em Am D
And I have no expectation just an adolescent heart
