Vesuvius

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[Verse 1]
F  Em  Dm   C              G  
Trying   to clip the creek   
      Am   F                C    
to the bank   with a clothes pin,
     G

            Am      G       F    
waterlogged system,   rusty 
   G        F         F
spring,   faulty planning.
C              G        F       
Logic squeezed out like mustard 
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at a corndog,
C      G                 F       F
  hypertension is not wisdom,
C  G    F F
chewing     the leather straps.

[Interlude]
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[Verse 2]
F  Em  Dm   C            G Am 
Trying   to hold the sun   
   F        C          G
still   with a bobby pin,
       Am       G         
burned fingers,   excellent 
     F              F
conductor of heat.
C            G            F     
Private fantasies are not public
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 policy,
C           G            F      
  Christian charity is a doily 
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over my death boner.
C      G               F        
  Busy work is not the Great 
     F
Wall of China,
Continúa después del anuncio
C           G           F       
  vanity bamboo hut out back 
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behind the big house.
C  G       F     F F           
Pretend is salve     for 
    (C)
whitey-boy guilt.

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[Verse 3]
F  Em Dm  C           G     F 
Furiously slapping at   the 
   F             (C)
moon   with a cane  pole.

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[Verse 4]
F  Em  Dm   C           G      
Trying   to prop up the   
   F F                   C 
heavens     with a fresh flat 
     G
pencil,
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some folks are allergic to rubber.
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C      G                F       
  I am trying to stitch this one
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 to all the rest of them
C         G          F       F
  but the seams will split,
C    G        F              F
  collide and cleave.
C    G           F          C   
  Neopolitan ice   cream is 
  G       F          F           
never   truly integrated   until 
    (C)
it's too late.

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[Verse 5]
F  Em  Dm   C                 
Trying   to stop the bleeding 
G      F F      C    G
  with   scotch tape,
                  F       G       
Platelets spoil adhesion,   fire 
      F                 G
up the cauterizing iron,
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it's a branding of necessity   not
              F          F
 scarification.
C           G             F     
Bliss was a pimple that I tried 
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to pop,
C                   G      
  it erupted up and out on my 
   F            F
countenance.

[Otro]
C       G            F        F
  Ugly eruption, Vesuvius,
C       G            F        F
  ugly eruption, Vesuvius.
C       G            F        F
  Ugly eruption, Vesuvius,
C          G    F        F
  Vesuvius at myself,
  F           F        C      C 
Vesuvius at myself.
     C      C