[Intro]
C F G x3
[Verse 1]
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.
Source: https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/vic_chesnutt/rips_in_the_fabric_chords_2619564