Nearest Thing To Hip
The Waterboys
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Intro G C D G C DG There used to be a café a few blocks away,C D Open seven days, called “TheG C D Brilliant Mistake”G Where a crow-haired girl with scarlet lipsC D And slender hips served up coffeeG C D and cakeAm On a crackling stereo the ghosts of Sun Ra,Em Charlie Parker, Miles and ColtraneD Dsus D Dsus blewG I’d kick back in my chair, thatC sweet honey’d jazz in the airD The sun shining throughG It was the nearest thing to hipAm It was the nearest thing to hipC D G In this shithole… and it’s goneG It was the nearest thing to hipAm It was the nearest thing to hipC D G In this shithole… and it’s goneG C D G C DG Everywhere that I go I see streets that are lowContinues after the adC D On distinction and high on theG C D banal and the blandG How did we get to this? We plumbed the abyssC D By the twisted grace of the law ofG C D supply and demandAm Well, there’s no use crying and no use sighing overEm D Stone, wood, wire, glass andDsus D Dsus cementG But there’s a little record store with a wooden floorC D That ain’t there no more that I used to frequentG It was the nearest thing to hipAm It was the nearest thing to hipC D G In this shithole… and it’s goneG It was the nearest thing to hipAm It was the nearest thing to hipC D G In this shithole… and it’s goneEm D Now I need to get out of this..C G hullabalooEm D And I remember an old-fashionedC G bar that I once knewBb Am C With an old-fashioned barmanG wearing old-fashioned clothesAm D But when I get there.. it’s been bulldozedG So I follow my nose down Comatose LaneC Through the stripped back, rippedD G C D up wastes of Woebegone SquareG Till I find myself on Deadbeat Street,C D My feet beginning to ache,G C D despair in the airAm The only thing bright in this blighted townEm Are the billboard advertsD Dsus D Dsus everywhere displayed like mocking shadesG And the musty, dusty second-hand bookstoreC D Is now a scum-encrusted amusement arcadeG It was the nearest thing to hipAm It was the nearest thing to hipC D G In this shithole… and it’s goneG It was the nearest thing to hipAm It was the nearest thing to hipC D G In this shithole… and it’s goneG C D G .. and it’s gone