Frontman In Heaven

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I'm trying to transmute tap water
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 into wine
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Out here, somewhere in this Las 
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Cruces motel room
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The floor and ceiling vibrate so 
Bm           A
I can barely stand
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Calm down, says the Sky Man, you're
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 injured
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I dreamt last night I was halfway 
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up the ladder to heaven
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And I shot up this morning with an 
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attitude

[Chorus 1]

  G                             
I charged through the city and I 
              Bm
wandered the streets
G                                 
Trying to get answers with just my
              F#m
 irresistible smile
         G                   
Shouting who will provide the 
                        A
celestial blueprint we need?

[Verse 2]

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Echoing voices zigzag in the night
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In and around forest-view 
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apartments
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To crack a bay window and feel 
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the fair winds
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She throws back her head and she 
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lifts up her hands
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She drives herself into an 
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amphetamine madness
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She says Tell me, just tell me I 
   Bm    A
was right
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And she's taken all the wrong pills
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Her voice begins cracking
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Her eyes open, staring at nothing

       E
Do you get what I'm saying?

[Chorus 2]

  G                              
I feel my heart beating. I wonder 
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how I couldn't keep it from coming 
on
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I want you so much in this wild 
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desert heat that it's scary
      G                            
But I know I have done so much that
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 could be construed as damage
            G                      
And there's something bad within me
 that makes me want to take 
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advantage

[Verse 3]

            D           Em
When you're tripped up, slipped up
       Bm             A
Blonde hair and black-lipped up
     D                          
With all those silk straps round 
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your ankles
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I feel myself convinced we could 
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do whatever all night
     D            Em               
It's high time we broke completely 
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free of all control

E
Hi there! How are you?

Well I feel like my brain just 
exploded

[Chorus 3]

G                           
Tell all your girlfriends I'm 
beautiful, I'm beautiful, I'm 
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someone
G                                 
Tell them it's breezy and warm 
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down here in this strange place
       G                  
I will wake in the morning 
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displaying the mark of a new man
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Whose whole world has altered in 
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front of his stupefied face

[Verse 4]

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I recall when things were way more 
Bm         A
fun around here
        D         Em         
But the Sky Man reminds me I'm 
           Bm         A
almost a ghost of myself
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It seems to me everything fine 
    A
fell away
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I've seen the forests burn and 
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learned you have to arm yourself
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It's gonna be a funky fresh 
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Christmas and I don't think I can 
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handle it
             D                    
When there's so little dignity in 
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anything

       E
Do you feel what I feel?

[Chorus 4]

    G                              
And Christ, will you watch my back 
           Bm
where I do roam?
     G                          
To a room full of murderous boys 
                        A
with no songs of their own

[Verse 5]

       D            Em          
I feel sick, I feel compromised 
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all the way down
        D          Em       
Like an eagle with all of its 
  Bm               A
feathers plucked out

        E
Can you see it in your mind?

[Chorus 5]

           G
I was inconsiderate and cold
But I can change if it's such a big 
Bm
deal to you
  G                                
I watch the dying sun sink on those
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 jerk-offs in their convertibles
                G                  
I went a little out of control, oh,
                          A
 with the boys out in the parking 
lot
           G                       
Loneliness blinded me, down in the 
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peanut-shell bars

[Verse 6]

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Wild wild nights, heavy romance
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There was Percodan spilled on the 
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dancefloor
           D                Em    
There were corpses in plain sight 
                   Bm       A
and they were just walking around

[Chorus 6]

        G
And the good old boys on their 
leatherette
                     Bm
Want a woman who was down for 
whatever
  G                             
I learned to be compassionate by 
                              F#m
watching those working girls smile
           G                       
Heaven was lying 'neath my feet 
                    A
like some wall-to-wall carpeting
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And sometimes I believe that 
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there's actually no such thing as 
love
    G                              
And one of these days I might not 
     A
be so good to you

        E
Can you see what I'm saying?

[Verse 7]

         D             Em          
Come and sit where I'm sitting, oh 
Bm      A
darling
        D     Em               
Because now I understand that it 
                 Bm           A
wasn't you who held me back
           D                Em    
There were forces beyond my 
              Bm          A
control and maybe I held myself down
            D                Em   
All of that money it gets so hard 
   Bm             A
to stay yourself around

[Chorus 7]

    G
But girl, give me just one little 
chance
                   Bm
Well, show me some trust again
       G                           
I will sing your soul far away, up 
               A
to a sparkling star

[Verse 8]

      D           Em             
Where all our old frends will be 
Bm      A
waiting
        D             Em        
Hold my hand and sigh in a soft 
Bm      A
whisper
                    D         
That you don't just care about 
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getting what you paid for

[Chorus 8]

           G
And on the day that I finally die
                        Bm
Well I just might start screaming
       G                           
In the one private instant I cross 
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over that unseen line

[Verse 9]

                   D          Em  
The last remaining species of 
          Bm           A
birds will be singing away
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Singing goodbye to my tastes, and 
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my face, and A
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Goodbye to New Mexico and Tex as
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When I'm gone, I know there will 
  Bm            A
be some things I miss
D                     A
Hold me and help me remember

           E
Cause it's almost time

[Chorus 9]

       G                           
We are born wired-up and our heads 
                     Bm
are all flooded with messages
         G                         
That get harder to pick out, except
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 at the start and the end

[Verse 10]

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And you, my weeping friend
        D          Em             
I can't wait to describe to you 
        Bm           A
what I'll see up there
           D                 
Though I'm sure it will be an 
   A
adjustment
          D              Em    
There are voices calling me from 
           Bm      A
down the hallway
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There are voices that filter up 
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through the silence
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And Calm down, says the Sky Man, 
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you're raving.

[Otro]

   G
So alright
       Bm
Nighty-night
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Nighty-night