C       F  G
She was walking down the sidewalk
                         C  F  G
Sniffing swiftly in the wind
                           C      F  G
Thinking of everything and nothing
                           C    F  G
Just another flighty human being
                     C     F  G
And satellites where arcing
               C   F  G
Undetected overhead
                    C        F  G
Her cells were busy splitting
                    C   F  G
And jettisoning the dead

[Chorus]
    F  G  C          F
Beauty is as beauty does
       C           G
In the eyes of the beholder
         F                   C
Or collectively in all of us

[Instrumental]
C   F   G  x2

[Verse 2]
                     C     F  G
She was waving to a cyclist
                     C  F  G
As he went coasting by
                  C        F  G
Through a lazy intersection
                             C    F  G
Towards the remainder of his life
                     C     F  G
And a feral cat went diving
                  C    F  G
Behind a dumpster there
                           C   F  G
Which displaced a big brown rat
                                 C    F  G
That went fleeing with a comical flair

[Chorus]
       F     G      C       F
We are trapped, but we are free
    C             G
To go through the motions
               F               C
And be just as happy as we can be.

[Instrumental]
C   F   G  x2

[Verse 3]
               C        F  G
And later on I held her
        C        F  G
In my skinny arms
                         C     F  G
My chapped lips were whispering
            C  F  G
Esoteric alarms
                         C     F  G
But her warm breath assuaged me
                 C    F  G
And the music returned
                C    F  G
Our dancing continued
                         C   F  G
While big forest fires burned

[Outro]
         F      G    C        F
Space is spooky and time is a trip
              C                                   G
Don't let the preachers and teachers and hipsters fool you
               F                   C
There ain't no rips in the fabric.