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A D A
We passed 800 miles talking circles about living with loss
D A
You said your sense of humor's always helped you get above & across
A D A
Every hurdle, every chasm, every shocking & unspeakable blow
D
Just proves the universe is chaos so you laugh to clear the lump from your
A A/G#
throat
F#m A*
But if you're fixed on being bitter
A B7
Go be bitter on your own
D
We're still two hours from El Paso
D* A
Arizona's such a long way to go
A D A
The chemicals were coursing through our bloodstreams at incongruous rates
D A
I was time-traveling inward through a past life I can never erase
A D A
You were hanging out the window, you said: 'We're just a beggar's banquet in space'
D A A/G#
You were laughing at the moon, you were cursing it for wearing your face
F#m A*
Me & New Mexico are orphans
A B7
Or is it bastards? Either way:
D
I know a guy in Roswell
D* A
We'll hitch a moonride, steal you back your face
Interlude, Repeat Verse
F#m A*
You sleep and whistle 'Blackbird' backwards
A B7
while my eyes cut her name in clay.
D
You wake to Mesa, Arizona
D* A
Say, 'Let it go. She'll change her mind someday.'
D
You took the wheel in Mesa, Arizona.
D*
Said, 'I got the rest, man.
A
You can drift away.'