Intro D* B
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B E B
We passed 800 miles talking circles about living with loss
E B
You said your sense of humor's always helped you get above & across
B E B
Every hurdle, every chasm, every shocking & unspeakable blow
E
Just proves the universe is chaos so you laugh to clear the lump from your
B B/A#
throat
G#m A*
But if you're fixed on being bitter
B C#7
Go be bitter on your own
E
We're still two hours from El Paso
D* B
Arizona's such a long way to go
B E B
The chemicals were coursing through our bloodstreams at incongruous rates
E B
I was time-traveling inward through a past life I can never erase
B E B
You were hanging out the window, you said: 'We're just a beggar's banquet in space'
E B B/A#
You were laughing at the moon, you were cursing it for wearing your face
G#m A*
Me & New Mexico are orphans
B C#7
Or is it bastards? Either way:
E
I know a guy in Roswell
D* B
We'll hitch a moonride, steal you back your face
Interlude, Repeat Verse
G#m A*
You sleep and whistle 'Blackbird' backwards
B C#7
while my eyes cut her name in clay.
E
You wake to Mesa, Arizona
D* B
Say, 'Let it go. She'll change her mind someday.'
E
You took the wheel in Mesa, Arizona.
D*
Said, 'I got the rest, man.
B
You can drift away.'