Are You Out There

INTRO: C


Perhaps I am a miscreation
                                    Am
No one knows the truth, there is no future here
    C
And you're the DJ speaks to my insomnia
                    Am
And laughs at all I have to fear

Laughs at all I have to fear


    Dm              G
You always play the madmen poets
Dm            G
Vinyl vision, grungy bands
    Dm               G
You never know who's still awake
    Dm             G
You never know who understands and


CHORUS:
Am
Are you out there, can you hear this?
F            G
Jimmy Olson, Johnny Memphis
Am                                F                      G
I was out here, listening all the ti-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-e-ime
    Am
And though the static walls surround me
F                  G
You were out there and you found me
Am                                F                      G
I was out here, listening all the ti-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-e-ime


     C
Last night we drank in parking lots
                                Am
And why do we drink? I guess we do it, 'cause
    C
And when I turned your station on
                                    Am
You sounded more familiar than that party was

You more familiar than that party


         Dm                  G
It's the first time I stayed up all night
     Dm               G
It's getting light, I hear the birds
    Dm              G
I'm driving home on empty streets
  Dm             G
I think I put my shirt on backwards


CHORUS:
Am
Are you out there, can you hear this?
F            G
Jimmy Olson, Johnny Memphis
Am                                F                      G
I was out here, listening all the ti-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-e-ime
    Am
And though the static walls surround me
F                  G
You were out there and you found me
Am                                F                      G
I was out here, listening all the ti-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-e-ime


BRIDGE:
    Am
And what's the future, who will choose it?
F           G
Politics of love and music
Am
Underdogs who turn the tables
F            G
Indie versus major labels
Am
There's so much to see through
         F               G
Like our parents do more drugs than we do
Am
Oh, ooh, oh, ooh, oh
F           G
Oh, oh, oh


C
Corporate parents, corporate town
                         Am
I know every TV set that has them lit
     C
They preach that I should save the world
                                   Am
They pray that I won't do a better job of it

Pray that I won't do a better job


      Dm                  G
So, tonight I turned your station on
Dm             G
Just so I'd be understood
  Dm            G
Instead another voice said I was
Dm                G
Just too late and just no good_____


CHORUS:  (## key change - up 2 semitones ##)
Bm
Calling Olson, Calling Memphis
G             A
I am calling, can you hear this?
Bm                                G    A
I was out here, listening all the ti-e-ime
    Bm
And I will write this down and then
  G            A
I will not be alone again, yeah
Bm
I was out here, listening
         G               A
Oh yeah, I was out here, listening
         Bm                               G        E     A       D
Oh yeah, I am out here, listening all the ti-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-e-ime