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1979
Smashing Pumpkins
Text File
CHORDS:
B x24432
Em 022000
C x32010
D xx0232
Am x02210
Intro
[drums, then]
B Em C
B Em
Verse
C B Em
Shakedown 1979
C B Em
Cool kids never have the time
C D
On a live wire right up off the street
Am B Em
You and I should meet
C B Em
Junebug skipping like a stone
C B Em
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
C D Am
We were sure we'd never see an end to it all
Chorus (second guitar plays verse muted i think)
D Am D
And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues
Am
And we don't know
D
Just where our bones will rest
Am
To dust I guess
D Am B(goes into verse)
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
Verse
B Em
C B Em
Double cross the vacant and the bored
C B
They're not sure just what we have in store
Em D Am
Morphine city slippin' dues down to see
Chorus/Bridge (second guitar plays verse muted through chorus, ends at %)
D Am D
That we don't even care as restless as we are
Am D
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts
Am %D
And poured cement, lamented and assured
C
To the lights and towns below
D C
Faster than the speed of sound
D C
Faster than we thought we'd go
D Am B(goes into verse
Beneath the sound of hope
Verse
B Em
C B Em
Justine never knew the rules,
C B Em
Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
C B Em
No apologies ever need be made
C D Am
I know you better than you fake it to see
Chorus (second guitar same as before)
D Am D
That we don't even care to shake these zipper blues
Am D
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
Am
To dust I guess
D Am B
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below
Verse
B Em
C B Em
The street heats the urgency of now
C D(single downstroke)
As you see there's no one around
[drum outro]
thats it
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