Long Island Blues

Intro: C Am F Em G

  C
I see a drug bust in your eyes
          F                C
There are bruises on your thighs
        F                  C      
I can tell you're trying to hide, 
        F      Am        G
all the darkness in your mind
    C
You got saw dust on your toes
          F                   C
From that sports bar down the road
          F                   C   
You have beer glass in your feet, 
         F      Am      G
you say kiss me on the cheek

     C
Some people get paid to talk
      F                  C
Some people get paid to listen
      F               C            
Some people buy a ticket and can't 
F      Am       G
wait for intermission

     C
Just like some will love you blindly
      F                   C
Some will love you with conditions
      F                    C      
Some will love you like an unborn 
            F    Am    G
child loves family tradition

   C
Now she is tainted by the syringe
          F                  C
Trying to rhyme a word with orange
        F               C         
I'm a cheap and ugly sinner, to 
        F    Am   G
who soul love is foreign

              F
So if you're sideways
                    C
And if you wanna go my way
                    G
Before a meteoric shower
                               C
Decides the earth should be devoured
                               F
Whether you're locked up in a tower
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                           C
Or you're charging by the hour
                           G
In mama's eyes you are a flower
Forget the after taste if life got 
 C
sour
                           F
Will you finish what you started
                           C
Travel the seas you never parted
                          G
Remember things you disregarded
                        C
Communicate with the departed
Believe in things you thought 
         F
weren't founded
                        C
Prepare to always be astounded
Or keep your dreams and visions 
  G
grounded
                            C
It took a while but then I found it.

  C
No one inspired you in time
        F                C
So you left your love behind
       F                 C        
In a world that can discourage one
           F       Am      G
 who is young and full of courage

   C
You said you'd start at the bottom
    F                       C
But instead you start at the top
    F                     C       
Be careful what you wish for 
             F     Am        G
because on your lap it might just 
drop

   C
So it's a lonely life at the bottom
       F                  C
Can be lonely too at the top
       F                  C   
Make sure your heart is singing 
          F        Am      G
right until the day it stops

    C
They'll say dream but what they mean
   F                C
Is be specific or obscene
     F                 C          
It's time to find some time to 
      F         Am       G
fail at what makes you most happy

    C
Sometimes you concentrate on lovers
    F                  C
To forget everything else
    F                  C       
Sometimes you hate each other to 
    F       Am      G
forget you hate yourself

              F
So if you're sideways
                      C
And if you wanna come my way
                    G
Before a meteoric shower
                               C
Decides the earth should be devoured
Whether you're locked up in the 
F
tower
                              C
Or if you charge 'em by the hour
                             G
To me you'll always be a flower
Forget the after taste if life got 
 C
sour
                          F
Will you finish what you started
                                C
Before you celebrate with a cigar 
lit
                          G
Remember things you disregarded
                        C
Communicate with the departed
                        F
Prepare to always be astounded
Believe in things you thought 
         C
weren't founded
Don't keep those dreams and visions 
  G
grounded
                           C
It took a while but now I found it.