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