Intro
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[Verse 1]
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Back in the golden years
B
Soaking in ballroom tears
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Where all the dresses once
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Had swayed
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Like when the private eye
B
Was killed by the robber's wife
F# G#m
Just when you thought he
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Had 'em made
F#
Out in the line of fire
B
Sinking in the mire
F# G#m
Or laying in wait behind
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Closed doors
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All clues that lead nowhere
B
I would not try to compare
F# G#m D#m
No, none of my pain to yours
[Chorus]
B
Oh maybe we'd be better off
G# N.C.
Saying nothing
B F#
Oh maybe we'd be better off
C#
Gagged and bound
G#
Something our oldest friends
C#
Could tell us
A#
But now our friends are
F# G#
Not around
B C#
Oh now the heat is on
[Verse 2]
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I saw the heralds come
B
Sing out the starting guns
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All the women standing on
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Broken heels
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Cadillacs of white
B
Came out of the sky
F# G#m
No one behind the
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Driving wheels
F#
Arc'd in perfect row
B
Windshields all aglow
F# G#m
Slowly driving the clouds
D#m B A#m G#m
Apart
F#
There in the light of day
B
I watched em drive away
F# G#m
With an aching in
D#m
My heart
[Chorus]
B
Oh maybe we'd be better off
G# N.C.
Saying nothing
B F#
Oh maybe we'd be better off
C#
Gagged and bound
G#
Something our oldest friends
C#
Could tell us
A#
But now our friends are
F# G#
Not around
B C#
Oh now the heat is on
[Verse 3]
F#
Something strange about
B
The color of the air
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The way the sun shines
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In a nightmare
F#
Up at the heavens gate
B
Standing in the your way
F# G#m
The things you want surrounded
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By all the things you hate
F#
Pine and wish for when
B
The past comes back again
F# G#m
But you don't really know
D#m
How it was back then
F#
I know you like to think
B
This world was made for you
F# G#m
But any fool could see
D#m
That never was true
[Chorus]
B
Oh maybe we'd be better off
G# N.C.
Saying nothing
B F#
Oh maybe we'd be better off
C#
Gagged and bound
G#
Something our oldest friends
C#
Could tell us
A#
But now our friends are
F# G#
Not around
B C#
Oh now the heat is on