D                     A
Through the wall in a soft spring rustle
            D                   A
Street-side selling some summer hustle
                        D                     A
Across the Maple Street Bridge in a bristling fall
               D                 A
Just whistling all's a balled up riddle
            D                       A
Just a high snowball on a curve-and-fall
                  D       A
Through a parking lot at Christmas
            Em
I heard her whisper
            Bm
I heard him call
                A
Here's what the gist was:


[Chorus]
D    F#m         Bm
Only wary in our lives
     A                G
Open-eyed and half-ashamed
           D A G A
That is to sa      y
D           F#m
Afloat on a ferry
          Bm           A              G
Freezing, tired, fully wired, a total waste
                        A
That's where the spirit left us


[Verse]
               D                          A
Underneath the house just like a flameout teen
                D             A
Who smells like sweat and gasoline

Kid, I stand with you
                 D                      A
And when you get hard and your eyes get mean
                    D
Cause you're on the march
                     A
Well, I could almost kiss you
               Em
Don't let them twist you
                Bm
Here, have this song
                A
You can take it with you


[Chorus]
D    F#m          Bm
Stay lonely, open wide
              A                G
Your eyes all fire, your mind aflame
            D A G A
Don't be disgra      ced
D        F#m         Bm
Loose of limb, unlionized
          A             G
While all liars fade to gray
                  A
I know you feel detested


[Bridge]
              Em
Did a silence drop? Did your Walkman stop?
                 Bm
Did the air turn cold? Was the message just so close?
            A
But did you choke it?
           G
Oh, kid, I know
                     A
I know where this is going
                  A
Because we always blow it


[Chorus]
D    F#m         Bm
Only wary in our lives
     A                G
Open-eyed and half-ashamed
                D A G A
It's just that wa        y
D                F#m
Afloat down that river
          Bm           A              G
Freezing, tired, fully wired, a total waste
                        A
That's where the spirit left us


[Outro]
D     F#m        Bm
Only wary in our lives
              A                G
Your eyes all fire, your mind aflame
            D A G A
Don't be disma       yed
D               F#m                  Bm
As this sobbing world goes screaming by
             A           G
I swear that if I had my way
                      A
You know I would have blessed it