Lily White Way

 F#                     C#
I need inspiration, I'm so 
disconnected
  D#m                              
I look to the streets, but they're 
B
so disinfected
  F#                       C#
I wish that I came from an edgier 
place
     D#m                  B
With taxis and transients up in my 
face
          D#m                    
Where you write what you know and 
     A#m
you know what you write
        B                        C#
Will be hailed as the second coming
          F#                       
There's a buzz on the streets where
 C#
 you grew up homeless
    D#m
And begging for change
          B
Well, I'm begging for change


[Chorus]
            B                      
Cause we're hung up on crosses and 
F#
obeying bosses
            B                    
And there's no inspiration, just 
F#
appreciation for
B                     D#m
Seventy and sunny and one for the 
money
    B           C#         B    
And two for the show on my lily 
C#    F#
white way


[Verse 2]
F#                           C#
There lives a black man, the seal 
has been broken
         D#m                   B
And they marvel at how he's so very 
well spoken
   F#                   C#
He must be a doctor or something 
productive
    D#m                  B
His body let go, but his color 
seductive
    D#m                    A#m
And all of the women, he's touching 
their lives
              B                    
While they're safe at home touching
        C#
 themselves
        F#                      
And the men, they just love that 
         C#
there's something, anything
D#m                  B
Happening at all, behind bedroom 
walls


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[Chorus]
            B                      
Cause we're hung up on crosses and 
F#
obeying bosses
            B                    
And there's no inspiration, just 
F#
appreciation for
B                     D#m
Seventy and sunny and one for the 
money
    B           C#         B    
And two for the show on my lily 
C#    F#
white way


[Verse 3]
F#                                
There's the sixties throwback who 
C#
misses the Dead
        D#m                 
She's a liberal at heart but 
    B
conservative in bed
        F#                       
And she held out on Starbucks as 
C#
long as she could
        D#m                     B
But the mom and pop store in our 
neighborhood
          D#m                  
Well, the workers all look down 
       A#m
their noses at her
          B                     
She'll go broke trying to please 
           C#
them with tips
       F#                        
So she gets to the corporate run 
C#
coffee shop early
          D#m
Where the smell of it hits
          B
Before it reaches her lips


[Chorus]
      B                     
She's bearing the crosses of 
 F#
neighborhood losses
        B              F#
And the uninspired and semi-retired
      B                           
She's seventy and sunny, but it's 
D#m
one for the money
    B           C#          B    
And two for the show on her lily 
C#    F#
white way


[Instrumental]
B      F#   x4


[Chorus]
      B                      F#
We're hung up on crosses and old 
Pagan bosses
            B                    
And there's no inspiration, just 
F#
appreciation for
B                     D#m
Seventy and sunny and one for the 
money
    B           C#         B    
And two for the show on my lily 
C#    F#
white way


[Verse 4]
F#                          C#m
A little destruction makes way for 
construction
    D#m                  B
The city expansion holds traffic for
 ransom
    F#m                           
And brand new brick buildings, of 
C#m
those I am certain
     D#m                          
Will leave our lives so much more 
B
sterile than urban
    D#m                     A#m
And welcome the progress or be 
overrun
      B                        
Every third house a pool, every 
 C#
second a gun
       F#                    C#
And on Saturday evenings the doors 
open wide
       D#m
It's a neighborhood waltz
           B
That's the neighborhood pride


[Chorus]
    B                       F#
And dresses disheveled from dances 
with devils
     B                      
Once hung up on crosses, now 
 F#
flipping off their bosses
    B                            
And everything is funny and it's one
D#m
 for the money
    B           C#            B   
And two for the show on their lily
 C#    F#
 white way
B                      D#m
One night of living is Sunday 
forgiven
B           C#          B    C# 
All for the show on our lily 
   F#
white way


[Otro]
F#                      C#m
I need inspiration, I'm so 
disconnected
  D#m                              
I look to the streets, but they're 
B
so disinfected