The Windows Break

Intro (all barre chords): D A Abm G

D                  Asus4
Piles and piles of old magazines
Em7                   G
Windows locked up and hidden from 
the street.
D                   Asus4
In a crawlspace, forgotten money.
        Em7                       
People tensing and waiting to come 
G
back home.
        D        Asus4        
You can feel the tension in the 
   Em7
house
     G                         
the moment you walk through the 
D         Asus4
door.
         Em7             G
Sudden madness allow me in again.

         D           A            
When the first train flies past 
  Abm               G
the house, miles away
              D                  
the screaming starts and it feels 
        A
like a minefield,
Continues after the ad
     Abm               G
the neighbors silently hiding in the
 shadows.
          D                   
There's a person locked in, behind 
Asus4
that door -
         Em7                G
Don't let anybody catch you turning 
the handle.
       D          B7 (barred)       
         G                A
It's a long, long night. It's going 
to be an awful and lonely night.

               D                 
Well...you can blot out the years 
     A
and abandon the jungle
E                       G
Cover up the tapes and refuse to 
look back,
         D         B7          G 
but your own right hand is not 
              A
gonna save your soul.
              E                
You have been followed! Ah, the 
    G
mechanics.
         D                    
All the reactions that seem to 
 A
attach themselves.
            E                   B 
It's been a very very very long 
                        G     
year and it's gonna be an even 
     A
longer night.

                       D         
And then a screen door slams; the 
         Asus4
windows break.
             Em7                 
A woman just jumps and scrapes at 
     G
the hood of a car.
         D                  
When the car backs up into a 
 Asus4                    Em7     
streetlight, all of the neighbors 
           G
call the cops.
           D                  
She falls off and the car speeds 
Asus4
away
               Em7                 
Headed for the border of a far away
 G
 state.
           D                       
It's gonna mean an hour of freedom 
         Asus4                   
with the radio and quarter-filled 
     Em7
gas tank.
                      G
And a quarter filled gas tank
                    e
With the high beams on
                   G   A
And the windows down...