D Em Bm A
I'm trying to transmute tap water into wine
D Em Bm A
Out here, somewhere in this Las Cruces motel room
D Em Bm A
The floor and ceiling vibrate so I can barely stand
D A
Calm down, says the Sky Man, you're injured
D Em Bm A
I dreamt last night I was halfway up the ladder to heaven
D Em Bm A
And I shot up this morning with an attitude
[Chorus 1]
G Bm
I charged through the city and I wandered the streets
G F#m
Trying to get answers with just my irresistible smile
G A
Shouting who will provide the celestial blueprint we need?
[Verse 2]
D Em Bm A
Echoing voices zigzag in the night
D Em Bm A
In and around forest-view apartments
D Em Bm A
To crack a bay window and feel the fair winds
D Em Bm A
She throws back her head and she lifts up her hands
D Em
She drives herself into an amphetamine madness
D Em Bm A
She says Tell me, just tell me I was right
D Em
And she's taken all the wrong pills
Bm A
Her voice begins cracking
D A
Her eyes open, staring at nothing
E
Do you get what I'm saying?
[Chorus 2]
G Bm
I feel my heart beating. I wonder how I couldn't keep it from coming on
G F#m
I want you so much in this wild desert heat that it's scary
G A
But I know I have done so much that could be construed as damage
G A
And there's something bad within me that makes me want to take advantage
[Verse 3]
D Em
When you're tripped up, slipped up
Bm A
Blonde hair and black-lipped up
D A
With all those silk straps round your ankles
D Em Bm A
I feel myself convinced we could do whatever all night
D Em Bm A
It's high time we broke completely free of all control
E
Hi there! How are you?
Well I feel like my brain just exploded
[Chorus 3]
G Bm
Tell all your girlfriends I'm beautiful, I'm beautiful, I'm someone
G F#m
Tell them it's breezy and warm down here in this strange place
G A
I will wake in the morning displaying the mark of a new man
G A
Whose whole world has altered in front of his stupefied face
[Verse 4]
D Em Bm A
I recall when things were way more fun around here
D Em Bm A
But the Sky Man reminds me I'm almost a ghost of myself
D Em Bm A
It seems to me everything fine fell away
D Em Bm A
I've seen the forests burn and learned you have to arm yourself
D Em Bm A
It's gonna be a funky fresh Christmas and I don't think I can handle it
D A
When there's so little dignity in anything
E
Do you feel what I feel?
[Chorus 4]
G Bm
And Christ, will you watch my back where I do roam?
G A
To a room full of murderous boys with no songs of their own
[Verse 5]
D Em Bm A
I feel sick, I feel compromised all the way down
D Em Bm A
Like an eagle with all of its feathers plucked out
E
Can you see it in your mind?
[Chorus 5]
G
I was inconsiderate and cold
Bm
But I can change if it's such a big deal to you
G F#m
I watch the dying sun sink on those jerk-offs in their convertibles
G A
I went a little out of control, oh, with the boys out in the parking lot
G A
Loneliness blinded me, down in the peanut-shell bars
[Verse 6]
D Em Bm A
Wild wild nights, heavy romance
D Em Bm A
There was Percodan spilled on the dancefloor
D Em Bm A
There were corpses in plain sight 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 F#m
I learned to be compassionate by watching those working girls smile
G A
Heaven was lying 'neath my feet like some wall-to-wall carpeting
G A
And sometimes I believe that there's actually no such thing as love
G A
And one of these days I might not be so good to you
E
Can you see what I'm saying?
[Verse 7]
D Em Bm A
Come and sit where I'm sitting, oh darling
D Em Bm A
Because now I understand that it wasn't you who held me back
D Em Bm A
There were forces beyond my control and maybe I held myself down
D Em Bm A
All of that money it gets so hard to stay yourself around
[Chorus 7]
G
But girl, give me just one little chance
Bm
Well, show me some trust again
G A
I will sing your soul far away, up to a sparkling star
[Verse 8]
D Em Bm A
Where all our old frends will be waiting
D Em Bm A
Hold my hand and sigh in a soft whisper
D Em Bm A
That you don't just care about getting what you paid for
[Chorus 8]
G
And on the day that I finally die
Bm
Well I just might start screaming
G A
In the one private instant I cross over that unseen line
[Verse 9]
D Em Bm A
The last remaining species of birds will be singing away
D Em Bm A
Singing goodbye to my tastes, and my face, and A
D Em Bm A
Goodbye to New Mexico and Tex as
D Em Bm A
When I'm gone, I know there will be some things I miss
D A
Hold me and help me remember
E
Cause it's almost time
[Chorus 9]
G Bm
We are born wired-up and our heads are all flooded with messages
G A
That get harder to pick out, except at the start and the end
[Verse 10]
D Em Bm A
And you, my weeping friend
D Em Bm A
I can't wait to describe to you what I'll see up there
D A
Though I'm sure it will be an adjustment
D Em Bm A
There are voices calling me from down the hallway
D Em Bm A
There are voices that filter up through the silence
D A
And Calm down, says the Sky Man, you're raving.
[Outro]
G
So alright
Bm
Nighty-night
F#m
Nighty-night
