(To the tune of "Lil' Red Riding Hood" by Sam Sham and the Pharaohs) Capo 4 shapes: Section 1: Em G Am C7 B7 Em Section 2: G Em Am D7 it's been halloween ever since 2016 trump makes freddy seem like a nice daydream (boo) talk about doom & gloom when you can't afford the emergency room and you're terrified w/ chills cause your wages won't pay the bills what big lies they tell i'd rather live at the bates motel than watch my country slip away to the nra & the kkk what big hypocrites getting rich for the apocalypse i gotta say, it's a scary day now that putting kids in cages is the christian way it's been halloween ever since 2016 trump makes freddy seem like a nice daydream (boo) talk about horrifying putting predators in power and ignoring science when every fox news line sends a shiver up & down my spine (boo) what big lies they have i'd rather jason chase me in a hockey mask than watch rights get stripped away for brown, trans, female, homeless, poor, or gay what big hypocrites placing blame on the journalists aspiring to be like our enemies & conspiring to murder our democracy it's been halloween ever since 2016 trump makes freddy seem like a nice daydream (boo) here's what we're gonna do listen up now i'm talking to you this red's gonna kill us dead so please vote blue
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Verse: Bm (F#) G // A Bm A G Chorus: D A Bm G // A Bm G A why you trying so hard to rein me in? you whistle when i trot, but not when i’m galloping is it getting out of hand, am i getting too wild? is it a shame i’m so untamed, so unbridled? i climbed up on my high horse cause it wasn’t safe to come down but i kinda miss the feeling of my feet running on the ground i don’t have no remorse cause now i've got a better view i’ll gladly dismount when i can start counting on you until you stop hurting me, i’ve been saddled with a burden you see that’s the only reason why i climbed up on my high horse you think i’m chomping at the bit i’m just trying to help you out you’re trying to throw me off trying to kick me in the mouth you wish i would just stay in the stable laying in the hay you don’t want no trouble long as i’m not in the way Capo 1 shapes: Verse: C Dm Em F G // F Em F G C Chorus: Am Em F G // C Dm Em F G C my thumb is one indecisive prick don’t show him your swatches cause he’ll never pick he’s got all these rules and sticks out when he’s sore but he cradles the neck of his taylor guitar he likes the road and the road likes him too but he’s always hitching the first ride back to you index is on deck, he directs and selects he’s got brilliant ideas for what should come next the grandiose one in the air for the win blessed with hearing the soul and steering the pen like god to adam in michaelangelo’s hue he’s making a point to create a life with you i always done what i could with the hand i was dealt i raised it and shook it, wrote down what I felt never won with a straight, just a face here and there kept hoping for two of a kind for a pair i’m down on one knee so you know where i stand would have folded by now if it weren’t for your hand the third’s like a bird, so careless and wild a chip on her shoulder, the mad middle child she’s mastered the art of the cold hard goodbye when she turns her back proud with her head held up high but index the peacemaker always steps in if you ever see her, my love, you’ll also see him the ring finger’s all heart, she’s made it her mission to cry at commercials and value tradition she won’t claim religion but her finger’s right on it her prayers take the shape of rumi’s love sonnets she’ll stand in a crowd and happily swear to wear any ring you place there last but not least, small but not weak everyone stops to hear him when he speaks his reach may surprise you, for it’s far and long he’s got a tiny physique but he’s character-strong not a word out of place, not a letter untrue he’s pinky promising all his love to you Verse: Bb Gm Cm F Chorus: Bb Gm Cm F Bridge: Cm Bb Gm F i look good in a photo album from the past i look pretty in your memories cause my colors don't fade fast when you turn your head and look behind i look like an accomplishment that was worth your time but how do you like me now? if there was no soon or then how do i look in this moment that we're standing in? i need to feel the presence of your love somehow cause that's all we have my dear how do you like me now? i look good in a to-do list cause i'm organized i look pretty in your hopes and dreams, silver hair and family ties when you fix your gaze on down the line i look like an accomplishment, well worth your time the love that you have memorized is looking you straight in the eyes the love that you look forward to is standing right in front of you your chest, my head is pressed the place i go to rest (feel the rhythm of you) i can’t tell you how much i love the sound of you living heart beats through an hourglass don’t breathe too hard, don’t breathe too fast we can make each heart beat last take a second, take you in memorize your rhythm we can make each heart beat last heart beats through an hourglass don’t breathe too hard too fast heart beats through an hourglass your breath, a quiet song enters, exists your lungs (feel the rhythm of you) i can’t tell you how much i love the sound of you living Section 1: C Dm Em Dm C Section 2: F C Dm Em G her face is burned in my brain, in my brain what makes it worse is i just learned her name we broke some bread i passed her plate thought in my head, your old friends are great then i skipped town and you slipped down and she was just enough of everything i'm not no thoughts of me with blond hair in your hands so carelessly you gave way to circumstance you're on your knees and I'm on the floor i'd grab my keys if i wanted to find the door are we strong enough i hope we are to erase her face in my place before it scars Verse: E A7 E F Chorus: E A7 E A7 (end on F) it is the season, the season of hunting i’ve got a target on my back I’m getting ready, getting my guns out cause i’m the one who will attack i’ve got a sharp shot, i’ve got a keen eye i’m gonna take you down this time but i am a slow beast, wounded already alone in the meadow of my mind i’m hunting myself now i’m putting myself down running away from my own gun i’m open fire here there’s no getting away dear hunting myself, there’s nowhere to run four in the am, still wide awake and letting the tape spin in my head what if i lose her all over again what if the cancer kills him dead why can’t i fix it, why can’t i forget why am i scared and sad and stunned the night is a vast sea, the water is glassy and i am a pacing, sitting duck Verse: Em Bm C Chorus: C G A7 i’m just a flower doing my best to grow you’re just a bee surrounding me naturally i give you my nectar, it’s all I know it’s the least i could do you found it in me when will we taste the honey that we both made? when will we taste the honey, babe? i’m just an ember in your life trying not to go out without a fight no matter how hard i prod and poke you only give me secondhand smoke when will we feel the fire? when will you warm me up? when will we feel the fire, love? when will we touch tomorrow? when will someday be here? when will we touch tomorrow, dear? there’s something about humans and fire strike ‘em up, blow ‘em out look what i made, look what i made expire we’re so obsessed with life and death we don’t know where we come from we don’t know where we’ll go next the difference between me and a tree is this i wonder if I’ll ever be wonderful and a tree just is Verse: Cm Fm G# A# Chorus: Fm Cm Fm Cm G# A# Cm G# A# Cm G G# G couldn't live inside my head, i never made the bed my brain complained and never seemed to learn my thoughts would stay up humming my ears would stay up drumming those roommates made it hard to stay long term if homeless is a state of mind and HL is the postage sign i live in fear, i must confess it will remain my return address i don't wanna stay here in homelessness couldn't live inside my heart slept in tents filled up with art on every wall there hung a ticking clock i had no time to pack i left that bloody shack and when i did i heard they had to change the lock couldn't live inside my guts it was a maze, it drove me nuts every room i stayed in was for testin' i couldn't stomach my own mess it was too much to digest and i left on account of never resting |
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