Intro
G#m F# B D#m G#m F# B D#m C#
[Verse 1]
G#m D#m F# G#m C# F#
Aw it's dark outside
G#m D#m G#m F# B C#
I've been trying to get a ride
C# G#m F# G#m
While my bo - dy waits
F# C#
My body waits
[Chorus]
B G#m
America
F# B
Warm my face
G#m F# B
I've been trying to turn the page
[Verse 2]
G#m F# D#m
Once I was a little boy
G#m C# F#
Staring at my shoes
G#m D#m
You came along and found
B G#m B C#
Me in the chicken coop
[Interlude]
B
But time takes over
G#m
I can't say when
B
Time takes over
C#
May we do it again
[Bridge]
F# G#m
Take me to the beachhead let's go over
G#m
All of those rocks
C#
At the end of the road
F#
Take me down to main
G#m
Street with no clothes on
D#m
With our bare feet on the
B F#
Painted yellow lines with
G#m D#m
Our shadows far behind us
B F#
Broke into that summer school
G#m C#
And fooled around on the infirmary cot
B F#
And we can be like all those fairies
G#m D#m
Making their rain angels in the eddies
B F#
And I have no expectation
G#m B D#m G#m B D#m
Just an adolescent heart
[Verse 3]
C# D#m G#m C# G#m
Aw it's dark outside
D#m G#m B
I've been trying to get a ride
G#m
While my body waits
F# C#
My body waits
[Chorus]
B G#m D#m
America
B
Warm my face
G#m D#m B
I've been trying to turn the page
[Verse 4]
G#m F# D#m G#m
Once I was a little boy
B C# G#m
Staring at my shoes
F#
You came along and found
B G#m
Me in the chicken coop
[Interlude]
B
But time takes over
G#m
I can't say when
B
Time takes over
C#
May we do it again
[Bridge]
F# G#m
Take me to the beachhead let's go over
G#m
All of those rocks
C#
At the end of the road
C#
Help me down the
F# G#m
Seawall let's find Marci
D#m
See if she got that
B F#
Invitation to the movie
F#
The one where the
G#m D#m
Kids break out of juvie
B F#
And then by their own admission
G#m C#
They go and turn themselves all in
B F#
Just as they get there to the station
G#m
The young one wheels
D#m
And begs the pavement
B F#
For brother speed to make arrangements
G# C#
With the spirits of the night
[Verse 5]
F#
Take me to the race
G#m
Track let's go bet on
B
Aw the one that no
B C#
One expects to win now
F#
Let's bet on the skinny horse
G#m
He will surely try the
D#m
Hardest to come in first
B F#
I bet you for the winner
G#m D#m
They put on some kind of fancy dinner
B F#
Let's be like those Philadelphia sisters
G#m
That have prayed straight
C#
For a hundred years
[Tag]
B F#
I have no expectation
G#m D#m
Just to be here in the present
B F#
And behold you for a second
G#m C#
Before it all goes away
[Interlude]
D#m
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah,
B
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah,
D#m
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah,
G#m C#
Before it all goes away
D#m
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah,
B
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah,
D#m G#m C#
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah------
[Outro]
D#m
And those painted yellow lines
B
With our shadows far behind
D#m
Broke into that summer school
G#m C#
And fooled around on the infirmary cot
D#m
And we can be like all those fairies
B
Making their rain angels in the eddies
D#m
And I have no expectation
G#m C#
Just an adolescent heart