palisades park

Intro - Piano & Horn
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  G  C  A   C   G   C
G (2x)
C G
Somebody screamed and all of Jim Jeffries' dreams
F
Explode into a black fist, he falls to the floor
C G
He stares up at the sky and he may wish he knew why
F
But you can't go back there no more
A
Future sounds so crazy
G
We've all heard that song before
A
Tomorrow's the name we change from yesterday to blame
G
When the train just don't stop here anymore
C G
I got starry-eyed on the coaster ride
F
Andy says, "man I need a break from the world outside"
C G
These days my life just careens through a pinball machine
F
I could do so much better but I can't get off the tilt
A
And there's a photograph on the TV
G
Black and white and Andy says something to you
A
Jack Johnson straddling Reno, Nevada like
G
She says, "I forget myself sometimes too"
A
Out past the doorways where we are sleeping
D
Well, the white queens creep
And the Tom cats peep
Chorus
C
Now I'm not breaking,
D
The train's just shaking,
G C
I never made it here before,
C D
There's a white mouse spinning the girls around,
G C
'Til they can't take it anymore
C
I used to dream in the dark
D
of Palisades park
G
Up over the cliffs and
C
down among the sparks
C
It's a long life
D
Full of long nights
A D C
But it was not what I was waiting for
F Em A
Everybody's seen the horses diving down the shore
Em A
It's a miracle they don't make them anymore.
G
So make up ladies, wake up baby
C G
You walked into the bar like some Saturday star
F
Stud-straight on spiked heels and needles and nerves,
C G
You're a down town pride, fully amplified Clyde,
F
Gin-tight and aging but well-preserved,
A
Remember Andy outside your bedroom window,
G
Saying "come on, let's drive across to the Palisades"
A
Keep going 'til we hit Reno, Nevada
G
I don't see Andy all that much these days,
A
Still there are pages in back,
Of the action stacks
D
Where, the white queens creep
And the Tom cats peep and...
C
Now the trains not braking,
D
The track's just shaking,
G
I never made it here before,
C D
And there's a sky rocket turning the world around,
G C
'Til I can't take it anymore
C
You can carry that spark
D
from Palisades park
G C
Down over the cliffs and out into the dark
C
It's a long life
D
Full of long nights
A D C
But it was not what I was looking for
F Em A
Everybody dreams of horses flying round the shore
Em A
It's a bad dream we're not having anymore
G
Man,
A
Have you seen Andy?
G
Hey man hey man!
A
Have you seen him around?
G
Hey man!
A
Have you seen my my my my my my my Andy?
G
Have you seen him? x 4 Hey!
A
Have you seen Andy around?
G
Dressed up in our pirate best
A
All leathers and feather and pearls
D
Andy said, "look at me man, I'm cooking these hands could
G
Finger up this whole world"
D
He said, "come outside
D
Climb out your bedroom window
C
Shimmy down the fire escape and say good-bye
D
Come outside"
A
Andy says, "I'm dressed up just like Edie
G
Changing all the time my leopard spots to polka dots and say good-bye
D
Come outside
A
Well maybe we could move to California
C
Just meet me at the subway and say good-bye
D
Come outside
A
The cops all think we're crazy
If you stay you'll just get married
G
To a girl who'll never know you and then say good-bye
G
Hey man, have you seen Andy?
A
I lost her in the sun
C
I was high as a kite on lovely and white
G
Man, you could lose anyone
G
Hey hey man, have you seen Andy?
A
I don't know where she's gone
C
But real love outlives teenage lust
G
We could get wet and it keeps us warm
D
Love is like angel dust
Lovely sometimes changes us
G
...sometimes not
D
Have you bee aching to trust or just...?
A
Have you been waking yourself with lust...?
C A
Have you been making us up or just taking us home?
G
It's a long wait
C G
At a long light
C G
Cars frozen in flight
C G
All the traffic stops to stare
A
At a crosswalk in Reno, Nevada
C
Wearing nothing but air
A
And a pair of grey paper wings
C
Andy thinks, "man, I have got nothing to wear"
A
We got nothing new and
C
We got nothing to wear
C
We got nothing to wear
C G
We got nothing to wear