Fearful Man

C

C                  G
The magazine needs flippin’ through
F                       C
The calendar needs tearing too
F                    G                     C
The dry veins in the brown leaves start to cry


C                  G
And you’ve got old man’s hands to weigh
F                 C
Anniversaries to celebrate
F              G                  C     G
Purple lips to part in a heart to ransack


C              G
Every step you take is writ
F               C
Down in a great book you envision
F                    G                             C
Somewhere off in the clouds where they know you’re pure

G

C               G
A sick shadow is hanging low
F                             C
She holds your secret just to let it go
F                          G                   C
And you’ve never stabbed a villain in the back before

G

                 C
You’re a fearful man
           G
Your hands shake
F                             C
And your eyes dance along the landscape
F                       G       C    G
Looking for the next best place to run
       C               G
Into a ditch or a dead end
F                         C
Through the alley or out on Main
F              G           C
To the epicenter or to the sun