+
-

Noose Dressed Like A Necklace

Kevin Devine

Text File

Kevine Devine
Noose Dressed Like a Necklace


Chords:
   C#  E  Ab/C#  A/C#    B/C#  A
e|--0--0---0------0-------0-----0--|
B|--0--0---0------0-------0-----2--|
G|--4--1---4------4-------4-----2--|
D|--2--2---2------2-------2-----2--|
A|--4--2---x------0-------2-----0--|
E|--x--0---4------x-------x-----x--|


C# E
A Cadillac drives down my street
C# E
A bead of sweat pouring slow down a palm line
C# E
I see a bumper sticker: a bearded man with a wanted sign
Ab/C# A/C# B/C# C#
A myth we've made to scare our fears away
Ab/C# A/C# B/C# C#
A slogan that we slap on all out misdirected hate
Ab/C# A/C# B/C# C#
A muddy symbol meant to mitigate our pain
Ab/C# A/C# B/C# C#
But it's really just a desert corpse we painted on a wall out in some cave
C# E C# E
Anyway, I don't know where he's gonna park that thing
C# E C# E

C# E 
My neighborhood drunk's on line at the deli
C# E
With his shaky hands and his swollen face he waits for his coffee
C# E
He blacks out curbside every night, then every day crawls back towards Wall Street
Ab/C# A/C# B/C# C#
So I don't see it like it's "us" and "them"
Ab/C# A/C# B/C# C#
I just see everybody working for that same eternal weekend
Ab/C# A/C# B/C# C#
Droning on and on and on and never doing what we've wanted
Ab/C# A/C# B/C# C#
Heavy legs, two steps behind some forever-dangling carrot

C# E
And I'm tired of it
C# E
Well, who's to say that we can't just fucking change it?


Interlude Chords(repeat until around 2:48):

1st time
x02220
x02120
022100
021100

2nd time
x02220
x02120
022100
021200

interlude ends with: C#(466) A E


C# A E
Ab/C# A/C# B/C# C#
I know it seems dramatic but I treat it like a crisis
Ab/C# A/C# B/C# C#
From the office to the coffin, all our time and talent wasted
Ab/C# A/C# B/C# C#
And that weight against your throat, is that a noose dressed like a necklace?
Ab/C# A/C# B/C# C#
'Cause from here, I couldn't really tell the difference
C# E C# E
Either way I say let's not take any chances
C# E
'Cause I don't know where he's gonna park that thing

search

Noose Dressed Like A Necklace

Kevin Devine