Chords:
G 320033
D 000232
Am7 002010
C 032010
C/B 020010
[Verse 1]
G D Am7
Hey, my little baby, pointing at the sky's amazing in the lake now.
G D Am7
All of this sensation and no space on earth to place it where it's safe now.
C C/B Am7
You've got a big day coming. A big day coming now.
[Verse 2]
G D Am7
Gather, crowd, around me, in the gutter where you found me. Help me stand now.
G D Am7
My body, it is aching, and my poor old heart is breaking, and I'm so freaked out.
C C/B Am7
We've got a big chance coming. A big chance coming now.
[Verse 3]
G D Am7
All the little Sadies and the literary ladies wish me well now.
G D Am7
A slob upon a plane that through the air is silver swaying into sun now.
G D Am7
I hightail my cool haircut through the turnstiles of the airport on the run now
G D Am7
Flip a couple hundred pages; I was turning thirty-eight. I was a horrible sight.
C C/B Am7
You've got a bad day coming. A sad day coming 'round.
C C/B Am7
I'll wear a white suit and black sunglasses to the last mass now.
N.C.
Okay.
[Bridge]
C C/B Am7
Then give me one last kiss in your pink silk dress, I guess.
C C/B Am7
Said, "I have lost all will to," with my face pressed against your breast.
C C/B Am7
And I have pilfered the king's pills From the palace medicine chest.
C C/B Am7
I cried a quart of crocodile tears onto Allison Anne's pink champagne glass.
C C/B Am7
I was escorted from the premises for being a mess.
[Verse 4]
G D Am7
And it's just like when John Howe told me how the Force MDs died.
G D Am7
Lou Gehrig's disease laid T.C.D. low. Mercury had a heart attack back in '95.
C C/B Am7
And where DJ Doctor Rock went nobody knows.
[Verse 5]
G D Am7
I see my grandfather, T. Holmes "Bud" Moore laid up in his hospital clothes.
G D Am7
But I think about Judee Sill dying in some trailer park, out of cocaine and codeine all alone.
C C/B Am7
It was a big waste, brother. Such a big waste. Yeah, I know.
C C/B Am7
They had some great songs; must have been a great time, so long ago.
C C/B Am7
But I didn't open up my mouth just to piss and moan.
N.C.
No way.
[Outro]
G D Am7
All the air is glitter and I went and hit the skating rink alone now.
G D Am7
I'll watch the kids all skim across the ice. They look so nice. It was so cold out.
C C/B Am7
And then I coughed into my cupped hands across the rink so I could hear the band.
G D Am7
Two guitars, a drummer, a chick singer with a Kurzweil on a keyboard stand.
C C/B Am7
And I said, "Play that cover," I said, "Play that cover song again."
