Rotary Park

F#      E       F#        Bm
Rotary Park is safe after dark
               E
Neighbors off porches
     F#            Bm
The playground is stark
G               A          F#
Wine stain'd a vacant old basketball court
G           A          C#m
Dwellings surround a municipal fort

E                           F#          Bm
Don’t mind the stories of triumphs and glories
       E                     F#m
Rotary Park is the jam after dark

[Chorus]
C
Be
A          D
Leave and decide
Bm           G
Stay and be blind
A         F#                         E
Easy to claim when you’ve places to find
A          D
We nearly died
Bm       G
Be that inside
A             E           Bb
grinding the gears of all tides

[Verse]
E                  D          Bm
Rotary Park is at peace after dark
          E
Chief Pontiac
            D           Bm
stamped his name on the mark

[Chorus]

G        A        D
Mystery buried in flat dominos
(Be, leave and decide, stay and be blind)
G          A            F#      Bm
Twilight attuned to a creeping repose
(Easy to claim when you’ve places to find)

[Verse]
                G
Don’t mind the lion
      A          G
hid dreaming of Zion
Bm              D            C
Rotary Park is ablaze after dark
       Fm       G           C
Rotary Park is swell after dark
         Fm
coveting woes
      C
in bureaucracy throes

[Chorus]
Fm          Bb           Eb           C
Trials by pairings with blood on the psyche
(Be, leave and decide, stay and be blind)
Ab        Bb           G           A
Victory airings not sponsored by Nike®
(Easy to claim when you’ve places to find)
Ab        G          Eb
Purple potato-faced comrade ascends
(We nearly died, be that inside)
           Bb        Fm       Bm
Vultures encircle abandoned amends
(Grinding the gears of all tides)

[Verse]
     C
This morning I woke
        Fm            C
from a nightmare and fell out of bed
C
and Lo!
     F#        C                       Fm   E C
The ghost of a man ages thought to be dead
  Fm           C        Fm            Bb     C
A smile and a ribbon he wore with a dutiful pose
C
A wink
C                                        Fm
A prick from the thorn of that beautiful rose

A               F#
Rotary Park is aghast before dusk
       G             A
don’t mind the four savage
        Bm        E
young horsemen of musk