Static On The Radio

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[Intro]
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Dm   Bb   Gm  Bb A (x2)

[Verse]
           Dm              Bb
           3 A.M. I’m awakened
           Gm           Bb A
By a sweet summer rain
           Dm            Bb
Distant howling of a passing
Gm              Bb A
     Southbound coal train

           Dm               Bb    
Was I dreaming or was there 
                 Gm
someone just lying here
                 Bb A
Beside me in this bed?
        Dm                     Bb
Am I hearing things? Or in the next 
room
      Gm                        Bb
Did a long forgotten music box 
         A
just start playing?

      Gm           C              
And I know (it’s a sin putting 
             F*
words in the mouths of the dead)
      Gm             C            
And I know (it’s a crime to weave 
              F*
your wishes into what they said)
       Gm           C         
And I know (only  fools venture 
               F*
where them spirits tread)
        Gm            C       
Cause I know (every word, every 
                     F*
sound bouncing around my head)

[Chorus]
                       Gm
Is just static on the radio
               Bb                  
(Static on the radio)
F              Eb

               Gm
Static on the radio
               Bb                  
(Static on the radio)
 F              Eb

               Gm
Static on the radio
Continues after the ad
               Bb                  
(Everything I think I know is just 
F              Eb
static on the radio)
               Gm
Static on the radio
               Bb                  
(Everything I think I know is just 
F              Eb
static on the radio)

[Verse]
            Dm             Bb
Midnight rendezvous with a pretty 
girl
           Gm                    
Wearin' a torn and tear-stained 
Bb    A
gown
            Dm                     
Like a ghost ship, she appeared 
   Bb
from nowhere
            Gm                     
On a lonely highway and flagged me 
    Bb   A
down
               Dm                
I gave her a lift downtown to the 
     Bb
Greyhound station
                Gm            
And in the flicker of the neon 
       Bb A
lights
           Dm                   
She kissed me goodbye and in the 
  Bb
mirror of her eyes
  Gm             Bb   A
I saw my own reflection

       Gm       C                 
And I know (The blind will 
     F*
sometimes lead the blind)
       Gm            C            
And I know (Through shadow lands 
        F*
and troubled times)
       Gm      C                  
And I know (Forsaking love, we seek 
F*
the signs)
       Gm       C             F*
Ans I know (Of truths forever hid 
behind)

[Chorus]
                       Gm
Is just static on the radio
               Bb                  
(Static on the radio)
F              Eb

               Gm
Static on the radio
               Bb                  
(Static on the radio)
 F              Eb

               Gm
Static on the radio
               Bb                  
(Everything I think I know is just 
F              Eb
static on the radio)
               Gm
Static on the radio
               Bb                  
(Everything I think I know is just 
F              Eb
static on the radio)

[Solo]

[Verse]
(A bit quieter in the next four 
lines, you could try palm muting or 
other techniques to your taste.)
                  Dm               
Now there's a church house about a 
 Bb
stone's throw down
          Gm                       
From this place where I been 
Bb A
staying
            Dm                 Bb
It's Sunday morning and I'm sittin' 
in my truck
Gm                          Bb A
Listening to my neighbor sing
      Dm                    Bb
Ten years ago I might have joined in
          Gm                   Bb 
But don’t time change those 
  A
inclined
          Dm                Bb
To think less of what is written
            Gm                    
Than what’s wrote between the 
Bb  A
lines?

         Gm    C                  
Cause I know (dreams are for those
          F *
 who are asleep in bed)
       Gm           C             
And I know (it's a sin putting 
            F *
words in the mouths of the dead)
        Gm                  C     
Cause I know (for all my 
             F *
ruminations I can't change a thing
        Gm              C      
Still I hope (there's others out 
                     F *
there that are listening)

[Chorus]
                      Gm
To the static on the radio
                Bb                 
(Static on the radio)
 F              Eb

               Gm
Static on the radio
               Bb                  
(everything I think I know is just 
 F              Eb
static on the radio)
               Gm
Static on the radio
                     Bb         
(Ain't praying for miracles, I'm 
       F          Eb
just down on my knees)
                       Gm
Is just static on the radio
                    Bb        
(Listening for the song behind 
    F                 Eb
everything I think I know)

(Static on the radio)
Gm                    Bb         
Everything I think I know is just
   F             Eb
 static on the radio