Bad Books - Mesa, AZ

      
 
 Bad Books - Mesa, AZ
 
 A -X- (Basically slide up from G) A7 -0-
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 -5- -X-
 
 G                           C                          G  
 We passed 800 miles talking circles about living with loss
 C                                                              G   
 You said your sense of humor's always helped you get above & across
 G                                   C                    G  
 Every hurdle, every chasm, every shocking & unspeakable blow
 C                                                                         
 Just proves the universe is chaos so you laugh to clear the lump from your
   G   G/F# 
 throat
 
 E                              A   
 But if you're fixed on being bitter
          G            A7 
 Go be bitter on your own
                   C               
 We're still two hours from El Paso
        D                     G 
 Arizona's such a long way to go
 
 The chemicals were coursing through our bloodstreams at incongruous rates
 I was time-traveling inward through a past life I can never erase
 You were hanging out the window, you said: 'We're just a beggar's banquet in space'
 You were laughing at the moon, you were cursing it for wearing your face
 
 Me & New Mexico are orphans
 Or is it bastards? Either way:
 I know a guy in Roswell
 We'll hitch a moonride, steal you back your face
 
 Interlude, Repeat Verse
 
 E                                     A    
 You sleep and whistle 'Blackbird' backwards
            G                    A7 
 while my eyes cut her name in clay.
               C          
 You wake to Mesa, Arizona
               C                            G     
 Say, 'Let it go. She'll change her mind someday.'
               C                     
 You took the wheel in Mesa, Arizona.
               D            
 Said, 'I got the rest, man.
                G    
 You can drift away.'