The Counting Crows Song Book 1.0

Versione 1.
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a Stefano Pasqualini production
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Versione 1.0
a Stefano Pasqualini production
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Counting Crows
Adam Duritz Dan Vickrey Matt Malley Ben Mize Charlie Gillingham David Bryson
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Canzoniere scritto ed elaborato a soli scopi didattici.
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Versione 1.0 – Maggio 2002

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A M
A Long December...................... 46 Mercury.............................. 44
A Murder Of One...................... 20 Miller's Angels...................... 36
All My Friends....................... 58 Monkey............................... 42
Amy Hit The Atmosphere............... 54 Mr. Jones............................ 6
Angels Of The Silences............... 24 Mrs. Potter's Lullaby................ 52
Anna Begins.......................... 10
Another Horsedreamer's Blues......... 38
O
C Omaha................................ 4
Catapult............................. 22
Children In Bloom.................... 32 P
Colorblind........................... 62
Perfect Blue Buildings............... 8
D
R
Daylight Fading...................... 26
Rain King............................ 14
Raining in Baltimore................. 18
F Recovering The Satellites............ 40
Round Here........................... 2
Four Days............................ 56
S
G
Speedway............................. 66
Ghost Train.......................... 17 St. Robinson In His Cadillac Dream... 68
Goodnight............................ 30 Sullivan Street...................... 16
H T
Hangin' Around....................... 50 Time And Time Again.................. 12
Have You Seen Me Lately?............. 34
High Life............................ 60
W
I Walkaways............................ 48
I Wish I Was A Girl.................. 64

I'm Not Sleeping..................... 28
1
Round Here
August and Everything After - 1993
Riff dell'intro e della strofa: (Arpeggio alternativo)
E|-----5-p3-----5-p3-----3---| E|-----5--------5------------|
B|---3--------3--------3-----| B|-------8--------8------8---|
G|---------------------------| G|---7--------7--------7-----|
D|---------------------------| D|---------------------------|
A|---------------------------| A|---------------------------|
E|---------------------------| E|---------------------------|
(Bisognerebbe suonare il riff sulla strofa, piuttosto che gli accordi, ma volendo suonare gli accordi si possono usare questi:
G 320033 - D xx0232 - Em 022033 - C x32033)
G D
Step out the front door like a ghost
Em G
into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white.
C D
And in between the moon and you, the angels get a better view
Em G
of the crumbling difference between wrong and right
C D
I walk in the air between the rain, through myself and back again
Em G
Where? I don't know.
C D
Maria says she's dying. Through the door, I hear her crying
Em G
Why? I don't know.
(C x32010 - D xx0232 - Em 022000 - G 320033)
C D Em G
Round here we always stand up straight
C D Em G
Round here something radiates
C D
Maria came from Nashville with a suitcase in her hand
Em G
She said she'd like to meet a boy who looks like Elvis
C D
She walks along the edge of where the ocean meets the land
Em G
Just like she's walking on a wire in the circus
C D
She parks her car outside of my house, takes her clothes off
Em G
Says she's close to understanding Jesus
C D
She knows she's more than just a little misunderstood
Em G
She has trouble acting normal when she's nervous
2
C D Em G
Round here we're carving out our names
C D Em G
Round here we all look the same
C D
Round here we talk just like lions
Em G
But we sacrifice like lambs
C D Em A D A
Round here she's slipping through my hands / / Oh...
(C6 x02010)
C6 D A C6 D A
Sleeping children got to run like the wind, out of the lightning dream
C6 D A C6 D
Mama's little baby better get herself in, out of the lightning
C D Em G
She says, "It's only in my head."
C D Em G
She says, "Shhh... I know it's only in my head."
C
But the girl on the car in the parking lot
D
says: "Man, you should try to take a shot
Em G
Can't you see my walls are crumbling?"
C D
Then she looks up at the building, and she says she's thinking of jumping
Em G
She says she's tired of life; she must be tired of something.
C D Em G
Round here she's always on my mind
C D Em G
Round here I got lots of time
C D
Round here we're never sent to bed early
Em G
And nobody makes us wait
C D Em G
Round here we stay up very very very very late
C D Em G
I can't see nothing, nothing around here
C D
You catch me if I'm falling, you catch me if I'm falling
Em G
Will you catch me 'cause I'm falling down round here
C D Em
I said I'm under the gun... round here
C D Em
I'm innocent, I'm under the gun round here
C D Em
I can't see nothing, nothing round here...
3
Omaha
(I Crows suonano questa canzone con il capotasto sul secondo tasto)
Em D Em C
Em Bm
Start tearing the old man down
D A Em
Run past the heather and down to the old road
Bm C
Start turning the grain into the ground
Em
Roll a new leaf over
Bm D
In the middle of the night there's an old man
A Em
Treading around in the gathered rain
Bm D
Well mister if you want to walk on water
C G
Could you drop a line my way
D Em
Omaha
C
Somewhere in middle America
G D C
Get right to the heart of matters
G D
It's the heart that matters more
Em A C
I think you'd better turn your ticket in
G Em C Am
And get your money back at the door
Em Bm
Start threading a needle
D A Em
Brush past the shuttle that slides through the cold room
Bm C
Start turning the wool across the wire
Em
Roll the new life over
Bm D
In the middle of the night there's an old man
A Em
Threading his toes through a bucket of rain
Bm D
Hey mister you don't want to walk on water
C G
You're only going to walk all over me
D Em
Omaha
4
C
G D C
G D
Em A C
G Em C Am
G Em C D
G Em C Am (x2)
Em Bm
Start running the banner down
D A Em
Drop past the color come up through the summer rain
Bm C
Start turning the girl into the ground
Em
Roll a new love over
Bm D
In the middle of the day there's a young man
A Em
Rolling around in the earth and rain
Bm D
Hey mister if you're going to walk on water, you know
C G
You're only going to walk all over me
D Em
Omaha
C
G D C
G D
Em A C
G
D Em
Omaha
C
G D C
G D
Em A C
G Em C D
And get your money back at the door... oh...
G Em C
Sweet Omaha... Sunday morning...
D G
I’m coming home today.
5
Mr. Jones
Am F Dm G Am F G
sha la la la la la la uh huh...
Am F Dm G
I was down at the New Amsterdam staring at this yellow-haired girl
Am F G
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation with this black-haired flamenco dancer
Am F Dm G
She dances while his father plays guitar. She's suddenly beautiful
Am F G
We all want something beautiful. I wish I was beautiful
Am F Dm
So come dance this silence down through the morning
G Am F G
sha la la la la la la la yeah uh huh...
Am F Dm G
Cut up, Maria! Show me some of them Spanish dances
Am F G
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Am F Dm G
Believe in me. Help me believe in anything
Am F G
(cause) I want to be someone who believes
C F G
Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales
C F
Stare at the beautiful women
G C
"She's looking at you. Ah, no, no, she's looking at me."
F G
Smiling in the bright lights, coming through in stereo
C F G
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely
Am F Dm G
I will paint my picture, paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
Am F G
All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful
Am F Dm G
(yeah you know) gray is my favorite color I felt so symbolic yesterday
Am F G C
If I knew Picasso I would buy myself a gray guitar and play
F G
Mr. Jones and me look into the future
C F
Stare at the beautiful women
G C
"She's looking at you. Uh, I don't think so. She's looking at me."
F G
Standing in the spotlight, I bought myself a gray guitar
6
C F G Am
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely
F
I will never be lonely
Am G
So I never gonna be lonely
Am F
I want to be a lion, everybody wants to pass as cats
Am G
We all wanna be big big stars, but we got different reasons for that.
Am F
Believe in me because I don't believe in anything
Am G
and I want to be someone to believe, to believe, to believe.
C F G
Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio
C F
Yeah we stare at the beautiful women
G C
"She's perfect for you, Man there's gotta be somebody for me."
F
I want to be Bob Dylan
G
Mr. Jones wishes he was someone just a little more funky
C F G C
When everybody loves you, son, that's just about as funky as you can be.
C F G
Mr. Jones and me staring at the video
C F G
When I look at the television, I want to see me staring right back at me.
F G
We all want to be big stars, but we don't know why, and we don't know how.
C F G C
But when everybody loves me, I'm gonna be, just ‘bout as happy as I can be.
F G
Mr. Jones and me... We're gonna be big stars...
7
Perfect Blue Buildings
Dm C Bb Am
Just down the street from your hotel, baby
Dm C Bb
I stay at home with my disease
Dm C Bb Am
And ain't this position familiar, darling
Dm C Bb
Well, all monkeys do what they see
G Bb
Help me stay awake, I'm falling...
Dm C Bb
Down on Virginia and La Loma
Dm C Bb
Where I got friends who'll care for me
Dm C Bb Am
You got an attitude of everything I ever wanted
Dm C Bb
I got an attitude of need
G Bb
So help me stay awake, I'm falling...
F C Gm
Asleep in perfect blue buildings
F C Gm
Beside the green apple sea
F C Gm Bb
Wanna get me a little oblivion, baby
F C Bb Dm
Try to keep myself away... from me
Dm C Bb
It's 4:30 A.M. on a Tuesday
Dm C Bb
It doesn't get much worse than this
Dm C Bb Am
In beds in little rooms in buildings in the middle
Dm C Bb
of these lives which are completely meaningless
G Bb
Help me stay awake, I'm falling...
F C Gm
F C Gm
F C Gm Bb
Wanna get me a little oblivion, baby
F C Bb F
Try to keep myself away from myself and me
F C Gm Bb
F C Gm Bb
Dm
8
Dm C Bb Am
I got bones beneath my skin, and mister...
Dm C Bb
There's a skeleton in every man's house
Dm C Bb Am
Beneath the dust and love and sweat that hangs on everybody
Dm C Bb
There's a dead man trying to get out
G Bb
So please help me stay awake, I'm falling...
F C Gm
F C Gm
F C Gm Bb
I wanna get me a little oblivion, baby
F C Bb F
Try to keep myself away from me
C Gm
perfect blue buildings
F C Gm
F C Gm Bb
I wanna get me a little oblivion, baby
F C Bb F C Gm
Try to keep myself away from myself and me
F C
In perfect blue buildings
Gm F C Gm
I can’t keep myself away from me
Bb F C
In perfect blue buildings
Bb
So I am gonna keep myself away...
I am gonna keep myself away from me...
Keep myself away...
Keep myself away...
9
Anna Begins
(Am* x02200)
Am*
My friend assures me, "It's all or nothing."
G Am*
I am not worried, I am not overly concerned
My friend implores me, "For one time only,

G
make an exception." I am not worried
Am*
Wrap her up in a package of lies, send her off to a coconut island
G
I am not worried, I am not overly concerned
Am*
With the status of my emotions, "Oh," she says, you're changing
G
But we're always changing. It does not bother me to
(Em 022000 - Cmaj7 x32000 - D13 x54000)
Em
Say this isn't love
Cmaj7 D13 Em
Because if you don't want to talk about it then, it isn't love
Cmaj7 D13
And I guess I'm going to have to live with that
Em Cmaj7
But I'm sure there's something in a shade of gray
D13
Or something in between
Em Cmaj7 D13
And I can always change my name if that's what you mean
Am*
My friend assures me "It's all or nothing"
G Am*
But I am not really worried I am not overly concerned
You try to tell yourself the things you try to tell yourself
G
To make yourself forget, to make yourself forget, I am not worried
Em
"If it's love," she said,
Cmaj7 D13 Em
"then we're gonna have to think about the consequences."
Em Cmaj7 D13
She can't stop shaking, I can't stop touching her and..
(G 320033 - C x32033 - Am7add4 x02233 - D xx0232 - E x22033)
10
G C Am7add4 D G
This time when kindness falls like rain it washes her away
C E D G
And Anna begins to change her mind
C Am7add4 D G C
"These seconds when I'm shaking leave me shuddering for days"
E D Am*
And I'm not ready for this sort of thing
But I'm not gonna break

G
And I'm not going to worry about it anymore
Am*
I'm not going to bend, and I'm not going to break and I'm
G
not going to worry about it anymore
Am* G
It seems like I should say, “As long as this is love...”
Am*
But it's not all that easy so maybe I should
G
Snap her up in a butterfly net, pin her down in a photograph album
Em
I am not worried - I've done this sort of thing before
Cmaj7 D13 Em
But then I start to think about the consequences
Cmaj7 D13
I don't get no sleep in a quiet room and..
G C Am7add4 D G
This time when kindness falls like rain it washes me away
C E D G
And Anna begins to change my mind
C Am7add4 D
And every time she sneezes I believe it's love
G C E D G
and Oh Lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing
C Am7add4 D G
She's talking in her sleep, it's keeping me awake
C E D G
And Anna begins to toss and turn
C Am7add4 D
And every word is nonsense but I understand
G C E D G
and Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing
C Am7add4 D G
Her kindness bangs a gong, It's moving me along
C E D G
And Anna begins to fade away
C Am7add4 D
It's chasing me away it disappears
G C E D G
and Oh lord, I'm not ready for this sort of thing...
11
Time And Time Again
Intro & strofa:

F/C + + + C + + +
E---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
D---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
A-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-3-|-----3-----3-----3-----3-----3-3-|
E-3h5-----5-----5-----5-----5-----|-3-------3-----3-----3-----3-----|
(Bisognerebbe suonare il tab sulla strofa, piuttosto che gli accordi, ma volendo suonare gli accordi si possono usare questi:
F/C x33210 - C x32010)
Intro pattern x2
F/C C F/C C
I wanted so badly Somebody other than me
F/C C F/C C
Staring back at me But you were gone, gone, gone
F/C C
I wanted to see you walking backwards
F/C C
And get the sensation of you coming home
F/C C
I wanted to see you walking away from me
F/C C
Without the sensation of you leaving me alone
Dm C
Time and time again
Dm C
Time and time again
Dm C
Time and time again
F
I can't please myself
Intro pattern x2
F/C C
I wanted the ocean to cover over me
F/C C
I wanna sink slowly without getting wet
F/C C
Maybe someday, I won't be so lonely
F/C C
And I'll walk on water every chance I get
Dm C
Time and time again
Dm C
Time and time again
Dm C
Time and time again
12
F
Gm Bb F
Gm Bb F
So when are you coming home Sweet angel?
Gm F Bb F C Dm
You leaving me alone? / All alone?
Gm C Bb F/C
Well if I'm drowning darling, you'll come down this way on your own
Intro pattern x 2
F/C C
I wish I was traveling on a freeway
F/C C
Beneath this graveyard western sky
F/C C
I'm gonna set fire to this city
F/C C
And out into the desert we're gonna ride
Dm C
Time and time again
Dm C
Time and time again
Dm C
Time and time again
F
Dm C (x3)
F
I can't please nobody else and...
Dm C
...time again
Dm C
Time and time again
Dm C
Time and time again
F
I can't please myself...
13
Rain King
(A/C# 042220)
D A/C# Bm A (x2)
D A/C#
When I think of heaven
Bm A D
Deliver me in a black-winged bird
A/C# Bm A D A/C#
I think of flying down into a sea of pens and feathers and
Bm A D A/C#
other instruments of faith and sex and God
Bm A
In the belly of a black-winged bird.
Bm G
Don't try to feed me
Bm G
Cause I've been here before
D E
And I deserve a little more
A Bm D E A
I belong in the service of the Queen
Bm D E A
I belong anywhere but in between
Bm D E
She's been crying and I've been thinking
A Bm D E
And I am the Rain King
D A/C# Bm A
And I said mama, mama, mama, why am I so alone?
D A/C#
I can't go outside
Bm A
I'm scared I might not make it home
D A/C#
But I'm alive, I'm alive
Bm A
But I'm sinking in
D A/C#
If there's anyone at home at your place, darling
Bm A
Why don't you invite me in?
Bm G
Don't try to bleed me
Bm G
Cause I've been there before
D E
14
A Bm D E A
Bm D E A
Bm D E
She's been lying and I've been sinking
A Bm D E
And I am the Rain King
Bm D A
Hey, I only want the same as anyone
Bm D A Bm
Henderson is waiting for the sun
D A
Oh, it seems night endlessly begins and ends
Bm D A
After all the dreaming I come home again
D A/C# Bm A (x2)
D A/C#
When I think of heaven
Bm A D
Deliver me in a black-winged bird
A/C# Bm
I think of dying
A D A/C#
Lay me down in a field of flame and heather
Bm A D A/C#
Render up my body into the burning heart of God
Bm A
In the belly of a black-winged bird
Bm G
Don't try to bleed me
Bm G
Cause I've been there before
D E
A Bm D E A
Bm D E A
Bm D E
She's been dying and I've been drinking
A Bm D E
And I am the Rain King, and I say
A Bm D E
I am the Rain King, and I say
A Bm D E
I, I, I...
A Bm D
I am... the Rain King... Yeah...
15
Sullivan Street
(Gmaj7 320032)
D Gmaj7 (x4)
D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7
Take the way home, that leads back to Sullivan Street
D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7
Cross the water, and home through the town
D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7
Past the shadows, that fall down wherever we meet
D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7
Pretty soon I won't come around
G A Em
I'm almost drowning in her sea
G D
She's nearly fallen to her knees
Gmaj7 D Gmaj7
Take the way home ba, ba, ba, ba
D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7
D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7
Where all the bodies, hang in the air
D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7
If she remembers, she hides it whenever we meet
D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7
Either way now, I don't really care, cause I'm gone from there
G A Em
G D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7
She's nearly crawling on her knees
D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7
She’s down on her knees... Down on her knees
D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7
D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7
I'm just another rider, burned to the ground, come tumbling down
G A Em
A Em
She's nearly crawling on her knees
G D Gmaj7
It's almost everything I need
D Gmaj7 D Gmaj7 D
I'm down on my knees I'm down on my knees
Gmaj7 D Gmaj7 D
I'm down on, down on my on my knees I'm down on my on my knees
Gmaj7 D
I'm down on my knees...
16
Ghost Train
(Dm/F x03231 – Fmaj7 x03210)
Dm Dm/F
Dm Dm/F
Dm G
Dm Dm/F Dm Dm/F
I took the cannonball down to the ocean
Dm Dm/F Dm Dm/F
Across the desert from sea to shining sea
Dm Dm/F Dm Dm/F
I rode a ladder that climbs across the nation
Dm Dm/F Dm Dm/F C
Fifty million feet of earth between the buried and me
Fmaj7 Em7
"How do you do?"
Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 Em7 Fmaj7
She said, "Hey, how do you do?"
Dm Dm/F Dm Dm/F
She buys a ticket cause it's cold where she comes from
Dm Dm/F Dm Dm/F
She climbs aboard because she's scared of getting older in the snow
Dm Dm/F Dm Dm/F
Love is a ghost train rumbling through the darkness
Dm Dm/F Dm Dm/F C
Hold on to me darling I've got nowhere else to go
Fmaj7 Em7
"How do you do?"
Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 Em7 Fmaj7
She said, "Hey, how do you do?" Hey...
Fmaj7 G Am Am (x4)
Dm / Dm / G
Dm Dm/F
I took the cannonball down to the ocean
Dm Dm/F Dm Dm/F
Watched the diesel disappear beneath the tumbling waves
Dm Dm/F Dm Dm/F
Love is a ghost train howling on the radio
Dm Dm/F Dm Dm/F C
"Remember everything." she said, "when only memory remains."
Fmaj7 Em7
"How do you do?"
Fmaj7 C Fmaj7 Em7 Fmaj7 C
She said, "Hey, how do you do? Hey..."
Fmaj7 Em7 Fmaj7
"How do you do?"
C Fmaj7 Em7 Fmaj7
She said, "Hey, how do you do?"
17
Raining In Baltimore
Dm Bb C F
This circus is falling down on its knees
Dm Bb C
Big top is crumbling down
Dm Bb C F
It's raining in Baltimore fifty miles east
Dm Bb C
Where you should be, no one's around
Bb F
I need a phone call
Bb F
I need a raincoat
Bb F
I need a big love
Bb F
I need a phone call
Dm Bb C F
These train conversations are passing me by
Dm Bb C
And I don't have nothing to say
Dm Bb C F
You get what you pay for, but I just had no
Dm Bb C
intention of living this way
Bb F
I need a phone call
Bb F
I need a plane ride
Bb F
I need a sunburn
Bb F
I need a raincoat
C Bb C
And I get no answers
Bb C
And I don't get no change
Bb F
It's raining in Baltimore, baby
C F C
But everything else is the same
Dm Bb C F
There's things I remember and things I forget
Dm Bb C
I miss you, I guess that I should
Dm Bb C F
Three thousand five hundred miles away
Dm Bb C
But what would you change if you could?
18
Bb F
I need a phone call
Bb F
Maybe I should buy a new car
Bb F
I can always hear a freight train
Bb F
Baby if I listen real hard
Bb F
And I wish, I wish it was a small world
Bb F
Cause I'm lonely for the big towns
Bb F
I'd like to hear a little guitar
Bb F
I guess it's time to put the top down
Bb F
I need a phone call
Bb F
I need a raincoat
Bb F
I really need a raincoat
Bb F
I really really need a raincoat
Bb F
I really really really need a raincoat
Bb F
I really need a raincoat...
19
A Murder Of One
(I Crows suonano questa canzone con il capotasto sul secondo tasto)
E A E A
B
Blue morning, blue morning
A
Wrapped in strands of fist and bone
B
Curiosity, Kitten,
A
Doesn't have to mean you're on your own
B
You can look outside your window
A
He doesn't have to know
B
We can talk awhile, baby
A
We can take it nice and slow
E A
All your life is such a shame, shame, shame
E A
All your love is just a dream, dream, dream
B
Are you happy when you're sleeping?
A
Does he keep you safe and warm?
B
Does he tell you when you're sorry?
A
Does he tell you when you're wrong?
B
I've been watching you for hours
A
It's been years since we were born
B
We were perfect when we started
A
I've been wondering where we've gone
E A
E A
B A
Well, I dreamt I saw you walking, up a hillside in the snow
B E
Casting shadows on the winter sky, as you stood there counting crows
B
One for sorrow, two for joy
20
F#m
Three for girls and four for boys
G#m
Five for silver, six for gold and
A
Seven for a secret never to be told
B
There's a bird that nests inside you
A
Sleeping underneath your skin
B
When you open up your wings to speak
A
I wish you'd let me in
E A
E A
E A
Open up your eyes, you can see the flames, flames, flames
E A
Of your wasted life, you should be ashamed,
E
you don't want to waste your life, baby
A
you don't want to waste your life, my darling
E
A
E
A
E
A
you don't want to, you don't want to waste your life, my darling
E
Change, change, change...
A
E
I walk along these hillsides in the summer 'neath the sunshine
A
I am feathered by the moonlight falling down on me, I said (x3)
E
I walk along these hillsides in the summer 'neath the sunshine
A
I am... feathered by the moonlight...
E
A
Change, change, change... (x bunch of times)
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Catapult
Recovering the Satellites - 1996
E D A (x2)
E D A
All of a sudden she disappears,
E D A
just yesterday she was here
E D A
somebody tell me if I am sleeping
E D
someone should be with me here
A
cause I don't wanna be alone
B A E B
I wanna be the knife that cuts into my hand and I
A E B
wanna be scattered, from here in this catapult
A E B
What a big baby, won't somebody save me please
A
won't find nobody home
E D A
All of these quiet battered voices
E D A
wait for the hunger to come
E D A
we got little revolvers and stupid choices
E D
and no one to say when we're done
A
Well I don't wanna bring you down
B A E B
I wanna be the light that burns out your eyes, cause I know
A E B
little things about me, that would sing in this silence of
A E B
so much rejection in every connection I make
A
I can't find nobody home
E D A (x4)
B A E B
I wanna be the light that burns out your eyes, cause I know
A E B
little things about me, that would sing in this silence of
A E B
so much rejection in every connection I make
A E B
I wanna be the last thing you hear when you're falling asleep...
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B A E B
I wanna be the knife that cuts into my hand and I
A E B
wanna be scattered, from here in this catapult
A E B
What a big baby, won't somebody save me please
A
I can't find nobody home...
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Angel Of The Silence
G#m A E B (x2)
G#m A E B
Well I guess you left me with some feathers in my hand
G#m A E B
Did it make it any easier to leave me where I stand? I guess there
G#m A E B
might not be too many who would stand beside you now
G#m A
Where'd you come from? Where am I going?
E B
Why'd you leave me 'till I'm only good for...
E C#m
Waiting for you
G#m B
All my sins...
F#m A
I said that I would pay for them if I could
E C#m
come back to you
G#m B F#m A
All my innocence is wasted on, the dead and dreaming
G#m A E B
Every night these silhouettes appear above my head
G#m A E B
Little angels of the silences that climb into my bed and whisper
G#m A E B
Every time I fall asleep. Every time I dream
G#m A
"Did you come? Would you lie?
E B
Why'd you leave us 'till we're only good for...
E C#m
Waiting for you
G#m B
All my sins...
F#m A
E C#m
come back to you
G#m B F#m A
G#m A E B (x4)
G#m A E B
I dream of Michelangelo when I'm lying in my bed
G#m A E B
Little angels hang above my head and read me like an open book, and
G#m A E B
Suck my blood, break my nerve, offer me their arms
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G#m A E
Well, I will not be an enemy of anything
B
I'll only stand here
E C#m
Waiting for you
G#m B
All my sins...
F#m A
E C#m
come back to you
G#m B F#m A
( E x7999x - E/D# x6999x)
E...
E/D# C#m A E
I'm gone... I'm gone... I'll leave today, I'm gone
E/D# C#m A E
I'm gone... I'm gone... Take me away, I'm gone
E/D# C#m A
I'm gone... I'm gone... I'll leave today
E E/D# C#m A
I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone, I'm gone...
E
I'm gone...
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Daylight Fading
G G Em7 C A
G
Waiting for the moon to come and light me up inside
Em7 C A
And I am waiting for the telephone to tell me I'm alive
G
Well I heard you let somebody get their fingers into you
Em7 C A
It's getting cold in California, I guess I'll be leaving soon
D
Daylight fading
Em7 C
Come and waste another year
Em7 C G D
All the anger and the eloquence are bleeding into fear
D Em7 C
Moonlight creeping around the corners of our lawn
Em7 A C
When we see the early signs that daylight's fading
D G
We leave just before it's gone...
G Em7 C A
G
She said "everybody loves you", she says, "everybody cares"
Em7 C A
But all the things I keep inside myself, they vanish in the air
G
If you tell me that you'll wait for me, I'll say I won't be here
Em7 C
I want to say goodbye to you, goodbye to all my friends
A D
Goodbye to everyone I know
D
Daylight fading
Em7 C
Em7 C G D
D Em7 C
Em7 A C
D G
D Em7 C Em7 Am C D
La la la la...
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G G Em C A (x2)
D
Daylight fading
Em7 C
Em7 C G D
D Em7 C
Em7 A C
D G
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I’m not sleeping
E E E E E... A E...
E E E E E... A E...
D A E
She comes to me at night when I'm sleeping
D A E
She comes to me when I'm alone
D A E
She comes to me, she holds my head when I'm crying
D A
She comes to me, she shuts my eyes
E
She brings me home
E E E E E... A E...
But I'm not sleeping anymore... anymore
E E E E E... A E...
D A E
She tells me when you look at me, she tells me when you're lying
D A E
She tells me when you talk about me, she lays me on the floor
D A E
She tells me when you're whispering, she lies beside me naked
D A
She tells me when you laugh at me
E
and she locks all the doors
E E E E E... A E...
E E E E E... A E...
(E 079997 - E5maj7 079877 - D* 077777)
E E5maj7
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven a.m.
All alone again

D* A
But I've been through all this shit before
E
Spend my nights in self-defense
E5maj7
Cry about my innocence
D* A
But I ain't all that innocent anymore
E E5maj7 D* A
E E5maj7 D* A E
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D A E
I see her on the TV, I see her in the movies
D A E
I see her in these animals that dance beside my bed
D A E
I'll follow you down baby, down into this valley
D A E
I'll follow you down baby, but I won't come up again
E E E E E... A E...
E E E E E... A E...
E E5maj7 A E
I'm not sleeping, I'm not sleeping, I'm not sleeping... no, no, no, no...
E E5maj7 A E
I'm not sleeping, I'm not sleeping, anymore, anymore, a-anymore...a...a...
E
I said rain rain go away
E5maj7
come again some other day,
A
cause I got all this shit to say
E
but I've gone back to find my way.
E
My sister's mother's favorite son
E5maj7
lost among the chosen one,
A
but I've got news for everyone
E
cause I'm going - out - that - door
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Goodnight Elizabeth
(Gadd6 320030 - Dsus2 xx0230)
A E Gadd6 Dsus2 (x2)
A E Gadd6 Dsus2
I was wasted in the afternoon, waiting on a train
A E Gadd6 Dsus2
I woke up in pieces and Elizabeth, had disappeared again
A E Gadd6 Dsus2
I wish you were inside of me, I hope that you're ok
A E Gadd6 Dsus2
I hope you're resting quietly, I just wanted to say
A E G D
Good-goodnight Elizabeth, goodnight Elizabeth, goodnight
A E G D
A E Gadd6 Dsus2
We couldn't all be cowboys, so some of us are clowns
A E Gadd6 Dsus2
and some of us are dancers on the midway, we roam from town to town
A E Gadd6 Dsus2
I hope that everybody, can find a little flame,
A
and me, I say my prayers,
E
then I just light myself on fire
Gadd6 Dsus2
and I walk out on the wire once again, and I say
A E Gadd6 D
A E Gadd6 D
A E Gadd6 Dsus2 (x2)
A E Gadd6 Dsus2
I will wait for you in Baton Rouge, I’ll miss you down in New Orleans
A E
I’ll wait for you while she slips in something comfortable
Gadd6 Dsus2
and I’ll miss you when I’m slipping in between
A E Gadd6 Dsus2
if you wrap yourself in daffodils, I will wrap myself in pain
A E
and if you're the queen of California,
Gadd6 Dsus2
baby I am the king of the rain, and I say
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A E Gadd6 D
A E Gadd6 D
Good-goodnight Elizabeth, the moon's a satellite yeah
A E Gadd6 D
now wont you fall down, on me now, wont you fall down on me
A E Gadd6 D
now wont come fall down, on me now, wont you fall down on me
A E
cause I’m all alone, you ain’t coming home,
Gadd6 D
you just settle down down down into bones
A E
I said I’m all alone, you ain’t coming home,
Gadd6 D
you just settle down down down into bones
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Children in bloom
(I Crows suonano questa canzone con le chitarre accordate 1/2 tono sotto: Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb)
(Dmaj7sus2 xx0220 - Dsus2 xx0230)
D Dmaj7sus2 E (x2)
E D Dmaj7sus2
Children in bloom cooking in the sun
E D Dmaj7sus2
waiting for a room of our own
E D Dmaj7sus2
leave my sister alone, she don't deserve this
E D Dmaj7sus2 Bm
she is a flower and I am a flower and we are all alone
A E Dsus2 Bm
I gotta get out on my own
A E Dsus2 Bm
I gotta get up from this waiting, waiting at home
A E Dsus2 Bm
I gotta get out of this sunlight, it's melting my bones
A E Dsus2
I gotta get up from this slumber and get myself home
E D Dmaj7sus2
All these wasted dreams, just waiting for the sun
E D Dmaj7sus2
to open, to open up my heart to anyone
E D Dmaj7sus2
bring me some rain, cause I'm
E D Dmaj7sus2 Bm
dying, I’m dying and I can't get this damn thing closed again
A E Dsus2 Bm
A E Dsus2 Bm
A E Dsus2 Bm
A E Dsus2
I gotta get up from this slumber and get myself home
Bm A E D (x4)
E D Dmaj7sus2
Where's the funhouse this year?
E D Dmaj7sus2
The fairground's deserted and the skies don't seem as near
E D Dmaj7sus2
Nicole's my oldest friend
E D Dmaj7sus2 Bm
but the altar is empty and she'll never be a little girl again
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A E Dsus2 Bm
A E Dsus2 Bm
A E Dsus2 Bm
A E Dsus2
I gotta get up from this slumber and get myself...
Bm A E Dsus2 (x4) Bm
Home...
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Have you seen me lately
(E* x79997)
E E* (x4)
F#m A E
E
Get away from me,
F#m
just get away from me this isn't gonna be easy
A E
but I don't need you, believe me
E
you got a piece of me,
but it's just a little piece of me, but I don't need anyone
F#m A E
and these days, I feel like I'm fading away
F#m A E
like sometimes when I hear myself on the radio
A F#m
Have you seen me lately?
A F#m
A F#m
D Bm E A D
I was out on the radio starting to change
Bm E A D
somewhere out in America it's starting to rain
Bm E A Bm
could you tell me the things you remember about me
A E
and have you seen me lately?
E
I remember me
and all the little things that make up a memory

F#m A E
like she said she loved to watch me sleep
F#m
like she said,
A E
"it's the breathing, it's the breathing in and out and in and..."
A F#m
A F#m
A F#m
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D Bm E A D
Bm E A D
Bm E A Bm
A E
E E* (x4)
F#m A E
E E* (x4)
F#m A E
E
You know I thought that someone would notice
I thought somebody would say something
F#m A
if I was missing
E
can't you see me?
E E*
come on color me in
E E*
come on color me in
E E*
come on color, come on, come on, come on, come on
F#m
give me your blue rain
A
give me your black sky
E
give me your green eyes
F#m
come on give me your white skin
A
E
(Esus4 x 7 9 9 10 7)
E* / E* / Esus4 / Esus4
D Bm E A D
Bm E A D
Bm E A Bm
A E
Bm A E
Bm A E
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Miller’s angels
Gm Bb F
Miller's angels in black and white
Gm Bb F
Welcome everyone in
Gm Bb F
Children dreaming of wrong and right
Gm Bb F
Wrapped in grace and in sin
Cm Bb Eb
They come out of the blue sky
Cm Bb Eb
They come out of the blue
Cm Bb Eb
Gm C
But you never know where they're gonna go
Eb F Gm
Hey Romeo
Gm Bb F
Miller's fingers are traveling
Gm Bb F
down the length of her thigh
Gm Bb F
But Miller's mind is still wandering
Gm Bb F
Staring up at the sky
Cm Bb Eb
Cm Bb Eb
Cm Bb Eb
Gm C
Eb F Gm
Hey Romeo
Gm C
Eb F Gm
Hey Romeo
D C A G
Don't... Don't don't... Don't don't don't don't don't come around here
D C A G
Don't... Don't don't... Don't don't don't don't don't come around here
D C A G F
Please don't... Don't don't don't don't don't come around here
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Gm Bb F
Miller's angels are hovering
Gm Bb F
in between the earth and the sun
Gm Bb F
In the shadow of God's unwavering love
Gm Bb F
I am a fortunate son
Cm Bb Eb
Cm Bb Eb
Cm Bb Eb
Gm C
Eb F Gm
Hey Romeo
Gm C
Eb F Gm
Hey Romeo
Gm C
No you never know where you're gonna go
Eb F Gm
Hey Romeo
Bb Eb Bb Eb
Can't you hear me? 'cause I'm screaming
Bb Eb Bb Eb
I did not go outside yesterday
Bb Eb Bb Eb
Don't wake me please...Don't wake me
Bb Eb
Cause I was dreaming
Bb Eb Bb Eb
And I might just stay inside again today
Bb Eb Bb Eb
I don't go out much these days
Bb Eb Bb Eb
Yes sometimes I stay inside all day
Bb Eb Bb Eb
Won't you leave me leave me leave me leave me alone
Bb Eb Bb Eb
Bb Eb Bb Eb
Bb Eb Bb Eb
Bb Eb Bb
Won't you leave me alone?
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Another Horsedreamer's Blues
(Bbmaj7 113231 - C6 x02010)
Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6 Gm C6 (x2)
Para.. Parara...
Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6
Margery's dreaming of the middle of the day
Bbmaj7 C6 Gm C6
Tiyuri to win, perfect Dozen to place
Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6
money is the matter that's been on her mind
Bbmaj7 C6 Gm C6
time ticks by her one race at a time
Gm C
She's tryin' to be a good girl
F Dm
And give 'em what they want
Gm C Bb
But Margery's dreaming of horses
Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6
Lookin' at a green sky, sun like a red eye
Bbmaj7 C6 Gm C6
Bright blue horses are the fortune she lives by
Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6
She's tired and lonely, scared and depressed
Bbmaj7 C6 Gm C6
Her visions of one day go racing the next
Gm C
F Dm
Gm C Bb
But Margery's dreaming of horses
(Fmaj7 x03210)
Fmaj7 Gm Fmaj7 Bb C
Margie doesn't say anything all the way home
Fmaj7 Gm Fmaj7 Bb C
So afraid she'll awake to find she's all alone
Gm Fmaj7 Bb C (x5) Bb
Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6
Margery's wingspan's all feathers and coke cans, and
Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6
TV dinners and letters she won't send, and
Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6
Every race night is shot through with sunlight
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Bbmaj7 C6 Gm C6
Trying to hit the big one one last time tonight for...
Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6
Drunken fathers and stupid mothers and
Bbmaj7 C6 Gm C6
Boys who can't tell one girl from another
Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6
So she takes her pills, careful and round
Bbmaj7 C6 Gm C6
One of these days she's gonna throw the whole bottle down
Gm C
F Dm
Gm C Bb
But Margery's dreaming of...
Gm C
F Dm
Gm C Bb
But Margery's dreaming of... horses
Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6 Gm C6 (x4)
Para.. Parara...
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Recovering the satellites
A G D
A D D
A D
Gonna get back to basics
A D
Guess I'll start it up again
A D
I'm fallin' from the ceiling
A D
You're falling from the sky now and then
A D
Maybe you were shot down in pieces
A D
Maybe I slipped in between
A D A
But we were gonna be the wildest, the wildest, the wildest people they ever hoped to see
Just you and me
E D E D
So why'd you come home, to this sleepless town
E D E
It's a lifetime commitment, recovering the satellites
D
All anybody really wants to know is...
A G D
when you gonna come down
A D
A D
Your mother recognizes
A D
all your desperate displays
A D
and she watches as her babies
A D
drift violently away
A D
'til they see themselves in telescopes
A D
Do you see yourself in me?
A D
We're such crazy babies, little monkey
A
We're so fucked up, you and me
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E D E D
So why'd you come home, to this faithless town
E D E
It's a lifetime commitment, to recovering the satellites
D
All anybody really wants to know is...
A G D
when you gonna come down, down, down...
A D
A D
She sees shooting stars and comet tails
A D
She's got heaven in her eyes
A D
She says I don't, I don't, I don't need to be an angel
A D
But I'm nothing, I'm nothing if I'm not this high
A G D
We only stay in orbit
A D
For a moment of time
A D
And then you're everybody's satellite
A
I wish that you were mine
D
I wish that you were mine
E D E D
So why'd you come home, to this angel's town
E D E
Well it's a lifetime commitment, to recovering the satellites
D
and all anybody really knows for sure is...
A G D
that you're gonna come down
A
that you're gonna come down
G D A
La la la la... (x bunch of time)
41
Monkey
(Asus4 x02230)
Asus4 A Asus4 A (x2)
D
All dressed up, no place to go
Bm
Hey monkey, when you gonna show
E A
your face around me?
D
I know all the wrongs and rights
Bm E A Bm
And I just want a little light to fall on me
D A E Bm
Hey monkey, where you been?
D A E Bm
This lonely spiral I've been in
D A E Bm
Hey monkey, when can we begin?
D A
D
Well I'm all messed, that's nothing new
Bm
Hey monkey, when you open up
E A
your blue eyes, I
D Bm
Don't know if I'm wide awake or dreaming
E A Bm
But all I ever need is everything
D A E Bm
D A E Bm
D A E Bm
D A
E A D
Just get the world off your shoulders
E A D
and close your pretty blue eyes
E Bm D
Hey monkey, what's life without an
A
occasional surprise?
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D Bm E A (x2)
D
Got nowhere but home to go
Bm E
Got Ben Folds on my radio right now
A D
Now I'm in trouble for the things I need
Bm E A Bm
Hey monkey don't you want to be needed too?
D A E Bm
D A E Bm
D A E Bm
D A
Bm D A
Bm D A
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Mercury
(I Crows suonano questa canzone con le chitarre accordate in Eb aperto: Eb Bb G Bb Eb.

Gli accordi sono quindi: E 00000 - F# 22222 - G 33333 - A 55555 - B 77777))
E F# / G / F# / E (x4)
E A E
She is trapped inside a month of gray
E A E
And they take a little every day
A
She is a victim of her own responses
E
Shackled to a heart that wants to settle
A E
And the runs away
B A
It's a sin to be fading endlessly
E F# / G / F# / E
Yeah, but she's alright with me
E A E
She is leaving on a walkaway
E A E
She is leaving me in disarray
A
In the absence of a place to be
She stands there looking back at me

E A E
Hesitates, and then turns away
B
She'll change so suddenly
A
She's just like mercury
E F# / G / F# / E
E A E
Keep some sorrow in your hearts and minds
E A E
For the things that die before their time
A
For the restlessly abandoned homes
The tired and weary rambler's bones

E A E
And stay beside me where I lie
E A
She's entwined in me, crazy as can be
E F# / G / F# / E
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A
Yeah, but she's alright
E F# / G / F# / E
she's alright with me
E F# / G / F# / E
E F# / G / F# / E
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A Long December
Recovering the Satellites – 1996
F Bb Gm Bb
F Bb Gm
Bb F C Gm
A long December and there's reason to believe
Bb F Bb
Maybe this year will be better than the last
Gm Bb F C Gm
I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leavin'
F Bb
Now the days go by so fast
F Bb Gm
And it's one more day up in the canyons
F Bb Gm
And it's one more night in Hollywood
F Bb Gm F
If you think that I could be forgiven... I wish you would
Bb
Na na na na
Gm Bb F
Na na na na na na na na na
Bb Gm
Na na na na yeah
Bb F C
The smell of hospitals in winter
Gm Bb F Bb
And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
Gm Bb F C
All at once you look across a crowded room
Gm F Bb
To see the way that light attaches to a girl
F Bb Gm
F Bb Gm
F Bb Gm F
If you think you might come to California... I think you should
Bb
Na na na na
Gm Bb F
Bb Gm
Na na na na yeah
F Bb Gm Bb
F Bb Gm
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Bb F C Gm
Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m.
Bb F Bb
And talked a little while about the year
Gm Bb F C
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,
Gm F Bb
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her
Bb F C Gm
And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe
Bb F Bb
Maybe this year will be better than the last
Gm Bb F C Gm
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself to hold on
F Bb
To these moments as they pass
F Bb Gm
F Bb Gm
F Bb Gm F
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean... I guess I should
Bb
Na na na na
Gm Bb F
Bb Gm F
Na na na na yeah
Bb
Na na na na
Gm Bb F
Bb Gm F
Na na na na yeah
Bb
Na na na na
Gm Bb F
Bb Gm F
Na na na na yeah
Bb
Na na na na
Gm Bb F
Bb Gm
Na na na na yeah... yeah... yeah... yeah...
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Walkaways
Recovering the Satellites – 1996
(G 320033 - Dsus4 xx0233 - Am7add4 x02233 - C x32033)
G Dsus4 Am7add4 C
G Dsus4 Am7add4
"I gotta rush away," she said
C G
"I been to Boston before,
Dsus4
and anyways
Am7add4
this change I been feeling
C G
doesn't make the rain fall"
Dsus4 Am7add4
No big differences these days
C G
just the same old walkaways
Dsus4
and someday
Am7add4
I'm gonna stay
C
but not today
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Hanging Around
This desert life – 1999
F C G C F C G (x2)
F C G
She sat right down on the sofa
C F C G
She said "Where have you been? I've been waiting for you."
F C G
Cause last night I had something so good
C F C G
These days get so long and I got nothing to do
F C G
I've been hanging around this town on a corner
C F C G
I've been bumming around this old town too long
F C G
C F C G
I've been bumming around this old town for way too long
F C G
We spend all day getting sober
C F C G
Just hiding from daylight, watching TV
F C G
We just look a lot better in the blue light
C F C
You know I gotta get out, but I'm stuck so tight,
G
weighed by the chains that keep me
F C G
C F C G
F C G
C F C G
I've been bumming around this old town for way too long
F C G C F C G (x2)
F C G
This girl listens while the band plays
C F C G
She says "Where have you been? I been lying right here on the floor"
F C G
I got all this time to be waiting
C F C G
For what is mine to be hated what I am after the light has faded
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F C G
C F C G
F C G
C F C G
I've been bumming around this old town for way too...way...
F C G
C F C G
F C G
C F C
I've been bumming around this old town for
G F C G
way, way, way, way, way too long
F C G
way, way, way, way too long
F C G
way, way, way, way too long
F C G
way, way, way, way too long...
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Mrs. Potter’s Lullaby
(Asus4 x02230 - Asus2 x02200)
(Il riff va suonato in tutte le strofe durante l’accordo A)
(Riff: A A Asus4 Asus4 A A Asus2 Asus2 )
Riff (x4)
A D E A
Well I woke up in mid-afternoon cause that's when it all hurts the most
D E A
I dream I never know anyone at the party and I'm always the host
C#m D A
If dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts
E D A
You can never escape, you can only move south down the coast
A D E A
Well, I am an idiot walking a tightrope of fortune and fame
D E A
I am an acrobat swinging trapezes through circles of flame
C#m D A
If you've never stared off in the distance, then your life is a shame
E D A
And though I'll never forget your face, sometimes I can't remember my name
C#m D A E
Hey Mrs. Potter don't cry
C#m D A E
Hey Mrs. Potter I know why but
C#m D E D A(riff)
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me
Riff (x4)
A D E A
Well, there's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing
D E A
And the price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings
C#m D A
And there is always one last light to turn out and one last bell to ring
E D A
And the last one out of the circus has to lock up everything
A D E A
Or the elephants will get out and forget to remember what you said
D E A
And the ghosts of the tilt-a-whirl will linger inside of your head
C#m D A
And the Ferris wheel junkies will spin them forever instead
E D A
When I see you a blanket of stars covers me in my bed
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C#m D A E
Hey Mrs. Potter don't go
C#m D A E
I say, hey Mrs. Potter I don't know but
C#m D E D A(riff)
A D E A
All the blue light reflections that color my mind when I sleep
D E A
And the lovesick rejections that accompany the company I keep
C#m D A
All the razor perceptions that cut just a little too deep
E D A
Hey I can bleed as well as anyone, but I need someone to help me sleep
A D E A
So I throw my hand into the air and it swims in the beams
D E A
It's just a brief interruption of the swirling dust sparkle jet stream
C#m D A
Well, I know I don't know you and you're probably not what you seem
E D A
But I'd sure like to find out, so why don't you climb down off that movie screen
C#m D A E
Hey Mrs. Potter don't turn
C#m D A E
Hey Mrs. Potter I burn for you
C#m D E D A(riff)
A D E A
When the last king of Hollywood shatters his glass on the floor
F#m E C#m
and orders another, well, I wonder what he did that for
C#m D A
That's when I know that I have to get out cause I have been there before
E D A
So I gave up my seat at the bar and I head for the door
A D E A
We drove out to the desert just to lie down beneath this bowl of stars
D E A
We stand up at the Palace like it's the last of the great Pioneertown bars
C#m D A
Now we shout out these songs against the clang of electric guitars
E D A
You can see a million miles tonight, but you can't get very far
E D A
You can see a million miles tonight, but you can't get very far
C#m D A E
Hey Mrs. Potter I won't touch and
C#m D A E
Hey Mrs. Potter it's not much but
C#m D E D A(riff)
Hey Mrs. Potter won't you talk to me <--(x3)
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Amy hit the atmosphere
F Bb C Bb (4x)
F Bb Gm Bb
If I could make it rain today
F Bb
And wash away this sunny day
Gm C
down to the gutter,
F Bb Gm Bb
I would, Just to get a change of pace.
F Bb Gm C
Things are getting worse but I feel a lot better
Eb Bb F
And that's all that really matters to me
F Bb Gm Bb
Amy hit the at-mos-phere
F Bb Gm C
Caught herself a rocket ride out of this gutter and
F Bb Gm C
She's never coming back, I fear
F Bb Gm C
But any time it rains, she just feels a lot better
Eb Bb F
Dm Am
We've waited so long
Bb F C
For someone to take us back home
Am Dm
It just takes so long
Bb F Bb F
And meanwhile the days go drifting away
Gm F Dm G
And some of us sink like a stone
Bb C F
Waiting for mothers to come
F Bb Gm Bb
There has to be a change, I'm sure
F Bb Gm C
Today was just a day fading into another
F Bb Gm Bb
And that can't be what a life is for
F Bb Gm C
The only thing she said was she feels a lot better
Eb Bb F
Dm Am
We've waited so long
Bb F C
For someone to take us back home
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Am Dm
It just takes so long
Bb F Bb F
And meanwhile the days go drifting away
Gm F Dm G
And some of us sink like a stone
Bb C F
Waiting for mothers to come
F Bb C Bb (x2)
F Bb C Bb
I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know, I don't wanna know
F Bb C Bb
I wanna know, I wanna know, I wanna know, I don't wanna know
F Bb C Bb
And all I really know, I wanna know, and all I really know, is I don't wanna know
F Bb C Bb
F Bb C Bb
F Bb C Bb
F Bb C Bb
F Bb C Bb F
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Four days
(Gmaj7 320032)
D D Em G (x2)
D Em
All I want is something good
G D
It gets harder every time
Em
She is leaving here tonight
G Em G
Take a breath, take your time
D
Spread your wings and rise
D Em
Make a mark upon the wall
G D
Paint your face and pass the time
Em
Close your eyes as she ascends
G Em G
Hold your breath and ease your mind,
D
Forty thousand times
Em G D
Time... fades into the night
C Em
They descend and then they climb
C Em
Feathers falling through the night
C Em
Have you seen Ohio rise?
C Gmaj7 C Em
It has been four days and nights
D Em
All I want is something fine.
G D
It gets harder every time.
Em
She is sleeping far away.
G Em G
Take a breath, take your time
D
Spread your wings and rise
Em G D
Rise... into the black Ohio skies.
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C Em
They descend and then they climb
C Em
Feathers falling through the night
C Em
Have you seen Ohio rise?
C Gmaj7 C
It has been four days and nights
Gmaj7 C
Nights...
Em Gmaj7 (x2)
Em C G C Em
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All my friends
Dm Bb
Thought I might get a rocket ride
F C Dm
When I was a child but it was a lie that I
Bb F A
told myself when I needed something good
Dm Bb
At seventeen, had a better dream.
F C Dm
Now I'm thirty-three and it isn't me but I’d
Bb A
think of something better if I could
Gm A Dm G
All my friends and lovers leave me behind
Bb F A
I'm still looking for a girl
Gm A Dm G
One way or another, I'm just hoping to find
Bb
A way...
F Bb
To put my feet out in the world
Dm Bb
Caught some grief from a falling leaf
F C Dm
As she tumbled down to the dirty ground, said I
Bb F A
should have put her back there if I could
Dm Bb
But everyone needs a better day
F C Dm
And I'm trying to find me a better way to get
Bb A
from the things I do to the things I should
Gm A Dm G
All my friends and lovers leave me alone
Bb F A
To try to have a little fun
Gm A Dm G
One way or another I just wish I had known
Bb F Bb F
To go out walking in the sun
Bb F Ab Bb
And find out if you were the one...
Ab Bb
Does it make you wanna come a little closer now?
Ab Bb
And did you wanna dance with me?
Ab Bb
Did you wanna hum a little harder now?
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C6 Gm
Can you see her waiting there?
C6 Gm
Can you see her? Cause I'm almost there
C6 Gm
Can you see her waiting there for someone
F Bb F Bb
like me?
Dm Bb
All you want is a beauty queen
F C Dm
Not a superstar but everybody's dream machine
Bb F A
All you want is a place to lay your head
Dm Bb
You go to sleep dreaming how you would
F C
Be a different kind if you thought you could
Dm Bb A
But you come awake the way you are instead
Gm A Dm G
All my friends and lovers shine like the sun
Bb F A
I just turn and walk away
Gm A Dm G
One way or another, I'm not coming undone
Bb F Bb
I'm just waiting for the day
Gm Am Dm G Bb F A
All my friends... Ooh... Ooh...
Gm Am Dm G Bb F Bb F
All my friends... Ooh... Ooh...
Bb F Bb F
Ooh... Ooh... (x bunch of time)
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High life
(Gmaj7 x20032 - C x32033 - G x20033 - Am7add4 x02233)
D Gmaj7 C G (x4)
D Gmaj7 C
Such a life... Such a life... Such a life...
G D Gmaj7 C
I'm a comet... honestly
G
I don't know why...
D Gmaj7 C G D Gmaj7 C G
But all my friends got flowers in their eyes, but I got none this season.
All of last year's blooms have gone and died. Time doesn't give a reason.
But hey, maybe you ask yourself sometimes what you need to be forgiven
Everything that you ever done wrong, is the reason that I'm driven
F#m
straight to tears.
Waiting here for you. Wanting to tell you.

C G Am7add4 F#m
How I get my ends and my beginnings mixed up too.
Just the way you do. I thought if I told you,

C G Am7add4
You might want to stay for just another day...
D Gmaj7 C G (x2)
...or two.
Waiting for the trains that just never come, beginning to believe in
The disappearing nature of the people we have been. We have – begun - to change
Into the worst kind of people. So what kind
D Gmaj7 C G D Gmaj7 C G F#m
of apology? No apologies. This apology doesn't describe the way it feels to feel for you.

C G Am7add4 F#m
How I find myself slowly disappearing, too.
Just the way you do. I thought if I told you,

C G Am7add4
You might want to help me to remain
D Gmaj7 C
...with you.
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G D Gmaj7 C G
I just wanna stay for a little while
I wanna stay a little while... come on, come on, come on, come on...
D Gmaj7 C
Cause there's a night light just falling down on me.
G D Gmaj7 C G
I just feel like a change,
But if the southern summer sea of flowers won't bloom without the rain,
But, oh, this desert life. This high life. Here at the dying of the day,
D Gmaj7 C G
I wasn't made for the scene, baby, but I wasn't made in this scene, baby,
D Gmaj7 C
It's just my way. I don't wanna go home alone.
G F#m
I wanna come on home to you.

C G Am7add4 F#m
How I line my sky with all the silver I can get.
Just the way you do. I thought if I told you

C Am7add4
You might want to stay for just another day...
D Gmaj7 C G
...or two.
D Gmaj7 C G (x bunch of time) D
Parlato: Isn't that just like disappearing into the sum of yourself,
And the person you are disappearing into?
It's like one plus one equals nothing at all.
One plus two equals nothing at all.
One plus me equals nothing at all.
One plus you equals one plus you equals you equals.
You and you and you and
Nothing at all.
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Colorblind
Am Bb F Bb (x2)
Am Bb F Bb
I am color blind
Am Bb F Bb
Coffee black and egg white
Am Bb F Bb
Pull me out from inside
Am Bb
I am ready
F
I am ready
Bb
I am ready, I am...
Am Bb F Bb
Taffy stuck, tongue tied
Am Bb F Bb
Stuttered shook and uptight
Am Bb F Bb
Am Bb
I am ready
F
I am ready
Bb
I am ready, I am...
F Bb F Bb
...fine
Am Bb F Bb
I am covered in skin
Am Bb F Bb
No one gets to come in
Am Bb F Bb
Am Bb
I am folded,
F
and unfolded,
Bb
and unfolding, I am...
Am Bb F Bb
...colorblind
Am Bb F Bb
Coffee black and egg white
Am Bb F Bb
Am Bb
I am ready
F
I am ready
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Bb
I am ready, I am
F Bb F Bb
...fine
F Bb F Bb
I am fine
F
I am fine
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I wish I was a girl
(Esus4 022200 - F#sus4 244422)
E E Esus4 Esus4 E Esus4 E (x2)
E Esus4 E Esus4 E
The devil's in the dreamin', he tells you I'm not sleepin', in my hotel room alone
Esus4 E Esus4
With nothing to believe in, you dive into the traffic rising up,
E
And it's so quiet. You're surprised, and then you wake
G#m A
For all the things you're losing
E Esus4 E
You might as well resign yourself to try and make a change
G#m A
And I'm going down to Hollywood.
B
They're gonna make a movie from the things that they find crawling round my brain...
A B C#m B A
I wish I was a girl, so that you could believe me
B C#m B A
And I could shake this static every time I try to sleep
B C#m B
I wish for all the world, that I could say
Esus4 E F#sus4 F#
"Hey, Elizabeth, you know I'm doing all right
A B
These days."
E E Esus4 Esus4 E Esus4 E
E Esus4 E
The devil's in the dreamin', you see yourself descending
Esus4 E
From the building to the ground,
Esus4 E Esus4
And you watch the sky receding, And you spin to see the traffic, rising up
E
And it's so quiet. You're surprised, and then you wake
G#m A
E Esus4 E
G#m A
B
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A B C#m B A
B C#m B A
B C#m B
Esus4 E F#sus4 F#
A B
These days."
E E Esus4 Esus4 E Esus4 E
A E
And one of these dreams, you forgive me.
F#m
It makes me think of the bad decisions
A
That keep you at home.
E A
How could anyone else have changed,
F#m
But these are wrong conclusions
A
That leave you alone.
E A
How could everyone rearrange?
E A
How could everyone else have changed?
F#m A E
What I see I believe.
Esus4
E Esus4 E
G#m A
B
A B C#m B A
B C#m B A
B C#m B
Esus4 E F#sus4 F#
A B
These days."
F#m E B (x3)
F#m E B
Well I can't sleep at night... (x4)
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Speedway
D Em G D
D Em
I get so nervous, I'm shaking
G D
It's so I got no pride at all.
Em
It gets so bad but I just keep coming back for more.
G D
Guess I just get off on that stuff.
Am G D
Thinking 'bout taking some time.
Am G D
Thinking 'bout leavin’ soon.
D Em
I got some things I can't tell anyone.
G D
I got some things I just can't say.
Em
There the kinda things that no one knows about.
G D
I just need somebody to talk to me.
Am G D
I'm thinking about leaving tomorrow.
Am G D
I'm thinking about being on my own.
Am G D
Think I've been wasting my time
Am G D
Thinking 'bout getting out
Am G D
Thinking 'bout getting out
Em G
And all this time, the bottom line,
D A
You don't know how much I feel.
Em F#
You say you see, but I don't agree.
G Em D
Don't know... Don't know how I feel.
Em G D
Em
Just trying to get myself some gravity.
G D
You're just trying to get me to say.
Em
Sometimes I sit here looking down upon Los Angeles
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G D
Sometimes I'm floating away
Am G D
Thinking about breaking myself
Am G D
Thinking about getting back home
Am G D
Think I've been waiting way to long
Am G D
thinking 'bout getting out
Am G D
thinking 'bout getting out
Am G D
thinking 'bout getting out...
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St. Robinson and his Cadillac Dream
(I Crows suonano questa canzone con il capotasto sul primo tasto)
G D C (x4)
D G C
Staring out of his window as the world rushes by,
D G C
Our friend Robinson closes the glass and replies,
D G C
"I dream of ballerinas and I don't know why?
D G C
But I've seen Cadillac's sailing.
D G C
And I was born on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay,
D G C
Maryland and Virginia have faded away
D G C
And I keep thinking tomorrow is coming today
D G C
So I am endlessly waiting.
G D C
The comet is coming between
G D C
Me and the girl who could make it all clean
G D C
Out there in the shadow of the modern machine
G D C
Walks St. Robinson in his Cadillac dream
D G C
Carries down in her basement all toe shoes and twin
D G C
Where the girl in the mirror screams when she speech,
D G C
"Where you think you will end up to state that you’re in
D G C
Your reflection approaches and recedes again"...
G D C
G D C
G D C
G D C
G D C (x4)
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D G C
I had a dream of a black car that shimmers and drives
D G C
Down the length of the evening to the carnival’s side
D G C
In a house where regret is a carousel ride
D G C
We are spinning and spinning and spinning and
D G C
Now there’s a hole in the ceiling down through which I fell
D G C
There’s a girl in the basement coming out of her shell
D G C
And there are people who will say that they knew me so well
D G
"I may not go to heaven,
G
I hope you go to hell."
G D C
G D C
G D C
G D C
G D C
In his dream.
G D C
St. Robinson in his dream.
G D C
Some people are never ever what they seem.
G D
Come on baby come on darlin’, come on
C G D C G D
Lets just get into my car and drive.
C G D
Come on and get into my car and drive.
C G D C
She said "I always do the same things over and over."
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I Wish I Was A Girl.................. 64

Riff dell'intro e della strofa: (Arpeggio alternativo)

(C x32010 - D xx0232 - Em 022000 - G 320033)

(I Crows suonano questa canzone con il capotasto sul secondo tasto)

I am gonna keep myself away from me...

Keep myself away...

I am gonna keep myself away from me...

Keep myself away...

I am gonna keep myself away from me...

My friend implores me, "For one time only,

(Em 022000 - Cmaj7 x32000 - D13 x54000)

(G 320033 - C x32033 - Am7add4 x02233 - D xx0232 - E x22033)

But I'm not gonna break

Intro & strofa:

(Dm/F x03231 – Fmaj7 x03210)

(I Crows suonano questa canzone con il capotasto sul secondo tasto)

( E x7999x - E/D# x6999x)

(E 079997 - E5maj7 079877 - D* 077777)

All alone again

(Gadd6 320030 - Dsus2 xx0230)

A E Gadd6 Dsus2 (x2)

A E Gadd6 Dsus2 (x2)

and all the little things that make up a memory

(Bbmaj7 113231 - C6 x02010)

Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6 Gm C6 (x2)

Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6 Bbmaj7 C6 Gm C6 (x4)

Just you and me

Asus4 A Asus4 A (x2)

(I Crows suonano questa canzone con le chitarre accordate in Eb aperto: Eb Bb G Bb Eb.

She stands there looking back at me

The tired and weary rambler's bones

she's alright with me

(G 320033 - Dsus4 xx0233 - Am7add4 x02233 - C x32033)

(Gmaj7 x20032 - C x32033 - G x20033 - Am7add4 x02233)

Waiting here for you. Wanting to tell you.

Just the way you do. I thought if I told you,

Waiting here for you. Wanting to tell you.

Just the way you do. I thought if I told you,

Waiting here for you. Wanting to tell you.

Just the way you do. I thought if I told you

D Gmaj7 C G (x bunch of time) D

(Esus4 022200 - F#sus4 244422)

E E Esus4 Esus4 E Esus4 E (x2)

E E Esus4 Esus4 E Esus4 E

E E Esus4 Esus4 E Esus4 E

(I Crows suonano questa canzone con il capotasto sul primo tasto)

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