Cassadaga


Clairaudients (Kill Or Be Killed) Intro: A Bm A D Dm A Dm Dm Verse: A Bm A D Dm A Dm Dm A Bm A D Dm A Dm Dm A Bm A D Dm A D Dm Dm 'Its Kill Or Be...' Bm C#m D Break: A Bm A D Dm A E Verse: A Bm A D Dm A Dm Dm A Bm A D Dm A Dm Dm A Bm A D Dm A D Dm Dm 'Do You Agree...' Bm C#m D Outro: A Bm A Bm D Dm D Dm D D E Dm Four Winds Capo 3rd fret Intro: Em, C, G, Am, G, Am, C x4 Em C Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe G Am There's people always dying trying to keep them alive G Am His body's decomposing in containers tonight C In an abandoned building where Em C A squatter's made a mural of a Mexican girl G Am With fifteen cans of spray paint in a chemical swirl G Am She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world C Four winds blowing through her hair Am D Am D But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon C G C G She just can't sustain the pressure where it's placed Am She caves Interlude: Em, C, G, Am, G, Am, C Em C The Bible's blind, the Torah's deaf, the Qu'ran is mute G Am If you'd burn them all together you'd get close to the truth still G Am They're pouring over sanskrit on the ivy league moons C While shadows lengthen in the sun Em C Cast on a school of meditation built to soften the times G Am And hold us at the center while the spiral unwinds G Am It's knocking over fences, crossing property lines C Four winds, cry until it comes Am D And it's the song of man Am D Slouching towards Bethlehem C G C G A heart just can't contain all of that empty space Am D It breaks, it breaks, (it breaks) Interlude: Em, C, Em, C, Em, C, D Em C Well, I went back, I rent a Cadillac, a company jet G Am Like a newly orphaned refugee, retracing my steps G Am All the way to Cassadega to commune with the dead C They said, "You'd better look alive" Em C And I was off to old Dakota where a genocide sleeps G Am In the black hills, the bad lands, the calloused east G Am I buried my ballast, I made my peace C With four winds, levelling the pines Am D Am D But when great Satan's gone, the whore of Babylon C G C G She just can't remain with all that outer space Am D Am D She breaks, she breaks, she caves, she caves. End on: Em If The Brakeman Turns My Way Capo 4th fret G C G When panic grips your body and your heart is a hummingbird G C D Raven thoughts blacken your mind until you're breathing in reverse Em D G D C All your friends and sedatives mean well but make it worse Em C Em C Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt Em D C D G Better find yourself a place to level out Em, D G C G Got a cricket for a conscience always looks the other way G C D A cocaine soul starts seeming like an empty cabaret Em D G D C Hey, where have all the dancers gone? Now the music doesn't play Em C Em C Tried to listen to the river but you couldn't shut your mouth Em D C D G Better take a little time to level out C G I never thought of running C D My feet just led the way G Mixed up Signals C Bullet Train G D Cars are switched out in the crazy rain G C I could meet you any place D C D G If the Brakeman turns my way Em, D G C G All this automatic writing I have tried to understand G C D From a psychedelic angel who was tugging on my hand Em D G D C It's an infinite coincidence but it doesn't form a plan Em C Em C So I'm headed for New England or the Paris of the South Em D C D G Gonna find myself somewhere to level out Em, D G C G Are your brothels full, Oh Babylon, with merry Middlemen? G C D Never peer out of their periscopes from those deep opium dens Em D G D C All this death must need a counterweight always someone born again Em C Em C First a mother bathes her child then the other way around Em D C D G The Scales always find a way to level out C G I tried to pass for nothing C D But my dreams gave me away G Mixed up Signals C Bullet Train G D People snuffed out in the brutal rain G C I could live to any age D C D G If the Brakeman turns my way Am D7 It is an old world it's hard to remember G C Like a dime store mystery Am D7 I'm a repeat first time offender C D (G) Who has rewritten history G Mixed up tea leaves C Phantom Pain G D Fuzzy logic in the crazy rain G D Getting better every day D C D G If the Brakeman turns my way G Mixed up Signals C Bullet Train G D Cars are switched out in the blinding rain G C He'll be smiling as he seals my fate D C D G When the Brakeman turns my way Hot Knives Capo 2nd fret Intro: G G G C x 4 G G G C G G G C The Wife forgave the Mistress for she only entertained G G G C G G G C The pain was gone the instant she cleared her throat to speak her name Em C Said, "Both of us must suffer from the same unending ache" G G G C x2 G G G C G G G C The world was not of interest though her days were never dull G G G C G G G C Her bed beneath a crucifix on guests performing miracles Em C G G G C x2 With the Son of God just hanging like a common criminal Am C G G G C x2 When I do wrong I am with God, she thought Am C G G G C x2 When I feel lost I am not at all Bm So give me Black Light (Give Give me) C So give me Hot Knives (Deep Clean sleep) Am D On a dance floor no one tells time (There is no time) Am C G G G C x2 Oh, I've made love, yeah, I've been fucked, so what? Am C G G G C x2 I'm a cartoon, you're a full moon, let's stay up G G G C G G G C She went to see a Mystic who made medicine from rain G G G C G G G C And gave up her existence to feel everything, dream others' dreams Em C G G G C x2 Bid farewell to her family with one ecstatic wave (Please take care I love you all) Am C G G G C x2 Out the window as the car rolled away Am C G G G C x2 She just vanished into a thick mist of change Bm So let us rejoice (Let's Rejoice!) C In all this Pink Noise (Out Pink Noise!) Am D An oscillation that we can pin point (We're right here!) Am C x5 Am C D End On: G Make a Plan To Love Me Capo 2nd Fret Chords G 320033 D xx0232 Am 002210 Em 022000 G2 540055 G3 760077 Gsus4 870077 Always hit G4 quickly, it's not played as long as any of the other chords Intro: G D G D Am D Am D G G2 G3 Gsus4 G D G I heard you're scheming new pyramids G D Am Another big idea to get you rich Am D Am (Make a Plan to love me) Am D G Make a plan to love me sometime soon G G2 G3 Gsus4 G G D G You said you had your foot in the door G D Am You buy and then you sell, you buy some more Am D Am (Make a Plan to love me) Am D G Make a plan to love me sometime soon G G2 G3 Gsus4 G Em Life is too short Em Death doesn't ask C G It don't owe you that Em Some things you lose Em You don't get back C D So just know what you have Am D G And make a plan to love me sometime soon G G2 G3 Gsus4 G G D G D Am G Am G G G2 G3 Gsus4 G G D G First you want to ride off into the sun G D Am Then you want to shoot straight to the moon Am D Am (Make a Plan to love me) Am D G Make a plan to love me sometime soon G D G When you are young the world is a ferris wheel G D Am I know we will grow old it is lovely, still Am D G Make a plan to love me sometime soon Em Life is too short Em To be a fool C G I don't owe you that Em Do what you feel Em Whatever is cool C D But I just have to ask Am D Will you make a plan to love me? Am D Will you make a plan to love me? Am D G Will you make a plan to love me sometime soon? G G2 G3 Gsus4 G Soul Singer In The Session Band Capo 1st fret C F C C F G C F C F G F G C C F C See the soul singer in the session band C F G Shredded to ribbons beneath the microphone stand C F C Felt the quickness of pity like a flash in a pan F G F G C For the soul singer in the session band (This chord progression is constant. So just keep playing it!) Now a red carpet bagger makes a blackberry call To the plastic pirhana in the city of salt Wasted wheat paste campaign post no bills on the wall You mean nothing to no one but that's nobody's fault See the soul singer in the session band Shredded to ribbons beneath the microphone stand Felt the quickness of pity like a flash in a pan For the soul singer in the session band I had a lengthy discussion about the power of myth With a postmodern author who didn't exist In this fictitious world, our reality twists I was a hopeless romantic, now I'm just turning tricks Just like that soul singer in the session band Shredded confetti beneath the microphone stand Saw the conflicts of interest, slipping cash in the hand Of the soul singer in the session band Now his room is on fire since he painted it red There's a stranger, silk sequins at the foot of the bed He's been to weddings and funerals, but he still never wept Now sorrow is pleasure when you want it instead Just like our soul singer in the session band Wailed like an infant atop a white baby grand We'll need every sand bag and every man To save the soul singer in the session band C F C C F G C F C F G F G C Headlights or taillights, it's a flip of a coin I've been coming and going since the day I was born And I followed the bread crumbs but I never got home I grew old in an instant, now I'm all on my own Just like that soul singer in the session band Shredded to nothing beneath the microphone stand Saw the wave of the future through the crack of the dam Drowned the soul singer in the session band F G F G C Bless the soul singer in the session band classic Cars Capo 2nd fret intro: G x4 D G She was a real royal lady, true patron of the arts Am B G Said the best country singers die in the back of classic cars D G So if I ever got too hungry for a suitcase or guitar D Am D To think of them all alone in the dark D G So I laid some nights beside her in a bed made for a queen Am B G She said I kissed her different, that all the men her age were mean D G Gave me anything I wanted, Oh the generosity D Am D I took all that I could, it was free D G Now the sky is a torn up denim and the clouds just splattered paint Am B G It’s a room I’m renovating; it’s a name I gotta change D G If I get out of California I’m going back to my home state D Am D To tell them all that I made a mistake G And I keep looking for that blindfold faith Am Lighting candles to a cynical saint D Am B G Who wants the last laugh at the fly trapped in the windowsill tape Am You can go right out of your mind trying to escape D Am B G From the panicked paradox of day to day D Am B G If you can’t understand something then it’s best to be afraid D G The whole world it loves you if you’re a chic chameleon Am B G Intersecting circles she could hang with anyone D G But when conducting business she would lie about where she’s from D Am D Saying, "Life is how it is not how it was" D G I learned to listen felt like I was back at school Am B G She’d talk forever about the phases of the moon D G Saying, "Everything is a cycle, you’ve got to let it come to you D Am D And when it does, you will know what to do" D G Without even knowing I guess I took up her advice Am B G Painted her front door it seemed a suitable goodbye D G It’s not that often but I think of her sometimes D Am D Just something quaint, a couple ships in the night G And they keep moving at a glacial pace Am Turning circles in a memory maze D Am B G I made a new cast of the death mask that’s gonna cover my face Am I had to change the combination to the safe D Am B G Hide it all behind a wall let people wait Am D B G And never trust a heart that is so bent it can’t break Middleman Capo 4th fret Chords F#m? x42200 F#m2? x02200 F#m7 x22400 G 320033 Bm x24332 C x32010 Intro F#m? F#m2? F#m7 F#m? F#m2? F#m7 F#m? F#m2? F#m7 I traveled though the atmosphere F#m? F#m2? F#m7 as a wall of feedback climbed F#m2? F#m7 The pegs were gold, F#m2? F#m7 the band was old, F#m2? they played, F#m2? F#m? in half time F#m? F#m2? F#m7 Now every dream gets whittled down F#m? F#m2? F#m7 just like every fool gets wise F#m2? F#m7 You will never reap F#m2? F#m7 of any seed F#m2? deprived F#m2? of sunlight F#m? F#m2? F#m7 G Bm So I have become the Middleman G Bm The gray areas are mine C F G Bm The in-between, the absentee F#m2? Is a beautiful disguise F#m? F#m2? F#m7 etc. Cleanse Song Chords D xx0232 D7 xx0212 G 320033 A 002222 F# 133211 Verse: D D7 G D Hear the chimes did you know that the wind when it blows G D A it is older than Rome, and all of this sorrow D D7 G D D See the new Pyramids down in old Manhattan from the roof of a friend A I watched an empire ending F# D G Heard it loud and long the rivers song time marching on A to a mad mans drum Filler: D D7 G A D D7 G A Chorus: F# A On a detox loft over glendale park over sidewalk chalk some rope red startle G F# So I'm up when I sleep on an Oxnard Beach with a fever of dreams that scare me sober A Into saltless dinner No One Would Riot For Less Intro: Bm D A The picking pattern is easy: Bm x4 D x4 A x4 E-------2-------------2-------------5--------| B---3-----3---3---3-----3---2---5-----5---5--| G-----------4-------------2-------------6----| D-----4-------------0-------------7----------| A-2---------------------------7--------------| E--------------------------------------------| Bm Death may come, invisible D Or in a holy wall of fire A In the breath between the markers Bm On some black I-80 mile Bm From the madness of the governments D To the vengeance of the sea A Everything is eclipsed Bm By the shape of destiny A So love me now Bm Hell is coming A Could you do it now? Bm Hell is here D Do you see the sterile soil Bm Poisoned sky A Yellow water G The final scraps of life Bm A Bringing new tears Instrumental: Bm G A x2 D Bm Wake, baby, wake G Leave that blanket around you A There's no where we're safe D Bm I'm leaving this place G But there's nothing A I'm planning to take Bm Just you A Just you G Just you Then finish with F# Bm Coat Check Dream Song??? I Must Belong Somewhere Capo 3rd fret Intro: C G Am F G C G Am F C G Am F G Leave the bright blue door on the whitewashed wall C G Am F G Leave the death ledger under city hall Am G C F G C G Am F G Leave the joyful air in that rubber ball today C G Am F G Leave the lilac print on the linen sheet C G Am F G Leave the birds you killed at your father's feet Am G C F G C G Am F G Let the sideways rain and the crooked street remain C G Am F G Leave the whimpering dog in his cold kennel C G Am F G Leave the dead starlet on her pedestal Am G C F G C G Am F G Leave the acid kids in their green fishbowls today C G Am F G Just leave the sad guitar in its hardshell case C G Am F G Leave the worried look on your lover's face Am G C F G C G Am F G Let the orange embers in the fireplace remain Am F Everything it must belong somewhere Am F G A train off in the distance, bicycle chained to the stairs Am G C F Everything it must belong somewhere G I know that now, that is why I'm staying here C G Am F G C G Am F C G Am F G Leave the ocean's roar in the turquoise shell C G Am F G Leave the widower in his private hell Am G C F G C G Am F G Leave the liberty in that broken bell today C G Am F G Leave the epic poem on its yellowed page C G Am F G Leave the gray macaw in its covered cage Am G C F G C G Am F G Let the traveling band on the interstate remain Am F Everything it must belong somewhere Am F G Sound stage in California, televisions in Times Square Am G C F Everything it must belong somewhere G Am I know that now that is why I'm staying here F G Yeah, I know that now, that is why I'm staying here C G Am F G C G Am F C G Am F G Leave the secret talks on the trundle bed C G Am F G Leave the garden tools in that rusted shed Am G C F G C G Am F G Leave those bad ideas in your troubled head today C G Am F G Leave the restless ghost in his old hotel C G Am F G Leave the homeless man in that cardboard cell Am G C F G C G Am F G Let the painted horse on the carousel remain Am F Everything it must belong somewhere Am F G Just like the gold around her finger or the silver in his hair Am G C F Everything it must belong somewhere G Am I know that now, that's why I'm staying here F G C I know that now, that's why I'm staying here Em Am In truth the forest hears each sound F G Each blade of grass as it lies down Em Am The world requires no audience F Fm No witnesses, no witnesses C G Am F G C G Am F C G Am F G Leave the old town drunk on his wooden stool C G Am F G Leave the autumn leaves in their swimming pool Am G C F G C G Am F G Leave the poor black child in his crumbling school today C G Am F G Leave the novelist in his daydream tune C G Am F G Leave the scientist in his Rubik's cube Am G C F G C G Am F G Let the true genius in the padded room remain C G Am F G Leave the horse's hair on the slanted bow C G Am F G Leave the slot machines on the riverboat Am G C F G C G Am F G Leave the cauliflower in the casserole today C G Am F G Leave the hot bright trash in the shopping malls C G Am F G Leave the hawks of war in their capitol Am G C F G C G Am F G Let the organ's moan in the cathedral remain Am F Everything it must belong somewhere Am F G They locked the Devil in the basement, threw God up into the air Am G C F Everything it must belong somewhere G Am And you know it's true, I wish you'd leave me here F G Am E F You know it's true, why don't you leave me here? Lime Tree G Bm I keep floating down the river but the ocean never comes G C Since the operation I heard you're breathing just for one Am D7 Now everything is imaginary, especially what you love Am C G You left another message said it's done, It's done G Bm When I hear beautiful music it's always from another time G C Old friends I never visit, I remember what they're like Am D7 Standing on a doorstep full of nervous butterflies Am C G Waiting to be asked to come inside Just come inside Am D7 But I keep go-o-o-o-oing out Bm Am C I can't sleep next to a stranger when I'm coming down B7 C G It's 8 a.m. my heart is beating too loud, Too loud D7 Am B7 C Don't be-e-e-e so ama-a-a-azing or I'll miss you too much B7 C I felt something that I had never touched G Bm Everything gets smaller now the further that I go G C Towards the mouth and the reunion of the Known and the Unknown Am D7 Consider yourself lucky if you think of it as home Am G You can move mountains with your misery if you don't, If you don't G Bm It comes to me in fragments, even those still split in two G C Under the leaves of that old Lime Tree I stood examining the fruit Am D7 Some were ripe and some were rotten, I felt nauseous with the truth Am C G There will never be a time more opportune Am D7 So I just won't be late Bm Am C The window closes, shock rolls over in a tidal wave B7 C G And all the color drains out of the frame D7 Am B7 C So pleased with a daydream that now living is no good B7 C I took off my shoes and walked into the woods B7 C G I felt lost and found with every step I took