1955

A   E  B   C#m
A   E  B


[Tom Thum]

N.C.
"If you're feeling low then give it a go! Try Lambert's Sniffing Salts today"

[Suffa:]
N.C.
You know when you're doing a song about a small town
N.C.                                                          A
You gotta start it with a cliche, you know what I'm sayin' like


[Verse]

       E
Time moves a little slower here
      B                       C#m
The paint peels 'cause the summers here are so severe
  A                     E
And we're nowhere near no where you would know of
  B                      C#m
Locals here pride, they show up just to show off
A                         E                        B
Four men take a load off, just to watch the day go by
                          C#m
Philosophizing with their friends like they're Plato
    A                        E                B
They prophecize on the bench by the main road, right
                           C#m
They got advice; I'm like 'Ayo, if you say so guys'
A                      E
But what do they know, Fox News got 'em lit
B                                 C#m
They're shockers, fundamentalists, the new communists
A                              E
A girl with a shopping list, clutch her handbag close
B                             C#m
I'm like "damn man" then it's all backhands, jokes
A                             E
'Cause I'm a gentlemen, but then again most of are
B                             C#m
First name basis in the bank, the post-office, the bar
A                             E                       B
The grocery, parks, hey lady I ain't tryna grab your pension
C#m
The old men on the bench hum


[Instrumental]

A E B C#m A E B


[Tom Thum]

N.C.
"Direct from the transistor radio in your lounge room.It's the entertainment that the whole 
family can enjoy."
N.C.
"Well I say looking slick will do the trick so try Barry's Brylcreem cream today!"


[Montaigne & Suffa]

N.C.
Well lets go, lets go
A                             E
We're living in the days when everybody sayin'
B                     C#m
"What a time to be alive"
Continues after the ad
A                           E
But I'm feeling out of place like I live in outer space
B                      C#m
'Cause it seems I'm stuck in time
A                       E
It's like we ride through life
B                          C#m
Right in the shadow of the cold war
            A            E
It gets so quiet at night
     B                             A
Like martial law took a hold of '55.


[Suffa]

      E
Time moves a little slower here
  B                                 C#m
A day feels like a week, a weekend feels like it could go a year
A                       E
And we're nowhere near nothing, man it's so true
B                                   C#m
I don't tell 'em where I'm from, I tell 'em where I'm close to
A                         E                     B
And I can go through an Atlas and show you on a map but
                 C#m                                    A
You'd still look me sideways and treat me like I'm backwards
                       E
But that's just fine, it so happens I'm
B                          C#m
Happy living in a city that is trapped in time
A                       E
While you're lined up in traffic I'm
B                          C#m
Not panicked 'bout transit, I'm back in time
A                       E
For a TV dinner and an early night
  B                                C#m
'Cause we get dressed to travel, got an early flight
A                               E
Been doing laps of the earth while doing laps of the sun
B                                 C#m
Tryna put where I'm at on the map 'cause where I'm from
A                                E
Would never get a mention, but all that and then some
B                          C#m
Once again the old men on the bench hum


[Instrumental]

A  E  B C#m  A E B


[Tom Thum]

N.C.
"And across the country they came in waves. Thousands upon thousands of flying discs
N.C.
descending from the planet Mars."
N.C.
"For the closest shave try a Wilson's razor today."


[Montaigne & Suffa]

N.C.
Well lets go, lets go
A                             E
We're living in the days when everybody sayin'
B                  C#m
"What a time to be alive"
A                            E
But I'm feeling out of place like I live in outer space
B                      C#m
'Cause it seems I'm stuck in time
A                      E
It's like we ride through life
 B                    C#m
Right in the shadow of the cold war
    A                  E
It gets so quiet at night
    B                           A
Like martial law took a hold of '55


[Montaigne]

                  E
Where I go, where I go
                    B    C#m
This will always be home, no matter
A                   E
Where I go, where I go
                    B    C#m
This will always be home, no matter
A                   E
Where I go, where I go
                    B   C#m
This will always be home, no matter
A                  E
Where I go, where I go
                  B
This will always be home


[Instrumental]

A  E  B  C#m A E B


[Tom Thum:]

N.C.
"If you can't beat the summer heat then what you need is a Wordell's. Wordell
N.C.
Refrigerators: the cooler choice."
N.C.
"The dieting revolution taking the world by storm."


[Montaigne & Suffa]

Well Montaigne lets go
A                             E
We're living in the days when everybody sayin'
B                   C#m
"What a time to be alive"
A                                E
But I'm feeling out of place like I live in outer space
B                             C#m
'Cause it seems I'm stuck in time
A                        E
It's like we ride through life
B                          C#m
Right in the shadow of the cold war
A                   E
It gets so quiet at night
B                              A           E                  B
Like martial law took a hold of '55