D              Em       Bm         A
I'm trying to transmute tap water into wine
          D                     Em       Bm  A
Out here, somewhere in this Las Cruces motel room
    D                 Em         Bm           A
The floor and ceiling vibrate so I can barely stand
     D                              A
Calm down, says the Sky Man, you're injured
  D                       Em             Bm        A
I dreamt last night I was halfway up the ladder to heaven
      D            Em              Bm       A
And I shot up this morning with an attitude

[Chorus 1]

  G                                           Bm
I charged through the city and I wandered the streets
G                                               F#m
Trying to get answers with just my irresistible smile
         G                                           A
Shouting who will provide the celestial blueprint we need?

[Verse 2]

        D         Em         Bm    A
Echoing voices zigzag in the night
        D     Em           Bm        A
In and around forest-view apartments
   D           Em         Bm            A
To crack a bay window and feel the fair winds
    D               Em           Bm           A
She throws back her head and she lifts up her hands
              D            Em
She drives herself into an amphetamine madness
         D             Em            Bm    A
She says Tell me, just tell me I was right
                D             Em
And she's taken all the wrong pills
    Bm           A
Her voice begins cracking
    D                     A
Her eyes open, staring at nothing

       E
Do you get what I'm saying?

[Chorus 2]

  G                                                           Bm
I feel my heart beating. I wonder how I couldn't keep it from coming on
  G                                                   F#m
I want you so much in this wild desert heat that it's scary
      G                                                   A
But I know I have done so much that could be construed as damage
            G                                                    A
And there's something bad within me that makes me want to take advantage

[Verse 3]

            D           Em
When you're tripped up, slipped up
       Bm             A
Blonde hair and black-lipped up
     D                                A
With all those silk straps round your ankles
  D              Em              Bm              A
I feel myself convinced we could do whatever all night
     D            Em               Bm             A
It's high time we broke completely free of all control

E
Hi there! How are you?

Well I feel like my brain just exploded

[Chorus 3]

G                                                           Bm
Tell all your girlfriends I'm beautiful, I'm beautiful, I'm someone
G                                                        F#m
Tell them it's breezy and warm down here in this strange place
       G                                            A
I will wake in the morning displaying the mark of a new man
      G                                                 A
Whose whole world has altered in front of his stupefied face

[Verse 4]

    D         Em                   Bm         A
I recall when things were way more fun around here
        D         Em                    Bm         A
But the Sky Man reminds me I'm almost a ghost of myself
   D           Em         Bm         A
It seems to me everything fine fell away
     D                Em                   Bm              A
I've seen the forests burn and learned you have to arm yourself
                D           Em                    Bm          A
It's gonna be a funky fresh Christmas and I don't think I can handle it
             D                    A
When there's so little dignity in anything

       E
Do you feel what I feel?

[Chorus 4]

    G                                         Bm
And Christ, will you watch my back where I do roam?
     G                                                  A
To a room full of murderous boys with no songs of their own

[Verse 5]

       D            Em          Bm          A
I feel sick, I feel compromised all the way down
        D          Em         Bm               A
Like an eagle with all of its feathers plucked out

        E
Can you see it in your mind?

[Chorus 5]

           G
I was inconsiderate and cold
                                    Bm
But I can change if it's such a big deal to you
  G                                                       F#m
I watch the dying sun sink on those jerk-offs in their convertibles
                G                                            A
I went a little out of control, oh, with the boys out in the parking lot
           G                                    A
Loneliness blinded me, down in the peanut-shell bars

[Verse 6]

     D           Em     Bm      A
Wild wild nights, heavy romance
          D        Em             Bm         A
There was Percodan spilled on the dancefloor
           D                Em                       Bm       A
There were corpses in plain sight and they were just walking around

[Chorus 6]

        G
And the good old boys on their leatherette
                     Bm
Want a woman who was down for whatever
  G                                                           F#m
I learned to be compassionate by watching those working girls smile
           G                                           A
Heaven was lying 'neath my feet like some wall-to-wall carpeting
    G                                                          A
And sometimes I believe that there's actually no such thing as love
    G                                   A
And one of these days I might not be so good to you

        E
Can you see what I'm saying?

[Verse 7]

         D             Em          Bm      A
Come and sit where I'm sitting, oh darling
        D     Em                                Bm           A
Because now I understand that it wasn't you who held me back
           D                Em                  Bm          A
There were forces beyond my control and maybe I held myself down
            D                Em      Bm             A
All of that money it gets so hard to stay yourself around

[Chorus 7]

    G
But girl, give me just one little chance
                   Bm
Well, show me some trust again
       G                                          A
I will sing your soul far away, up to a sparkling star

[Verse 8]

      D           Em             Bm      A
Where all our old frends will be waiting
        D             Em        Bm      A
Hold my hand and sigh in a soft whisper
                    D          Em               Bm       A
That you don't just care about getting what you paid for

[Chorus 8]

           G
And on the day that I finally die
                        Bm
Well I just might start screaming
       G                                             A
In the one private instant I cross over that unseen line

[Verse 9]

                   D          Em            Bm           A
The last remaining species of birds will be singing away
        D             Em             Bm         A
Singing goodbye to my tastes, and my face, and A 
    D          Em          Bm A
Goodbye to New Mexico and Tex as
         D            Em            Bm            A
When I'm gone, I know there will be some things I miss
D                     A
Hold me and help me remember

           E
Cause it's almost time

[Chorus 9]

       G                                                Bm
We are born wired-up and our heads are all flooded with messages
         G                                               A
That get harder to pick out, except at the start and the end

[Verse 10]

    D   Em  Bm             A
And you, my weeping friend
        D          Em                     Bm           A
I can't wait to describe to you what I'll see up there
           D                    A
Though I'm sure it will be an adjustment
          D              Em               Bm      A
There are voices calling me from down the hallway
          D                  Em             Bm      A
There are voices that filter up through the silence
         D                               A
And Calm down, says the Sky Man, you're raving.

[Outro]

   G
So alright
       Bm
Nighty-night
       F#m
Nighty-night