Shell Games

 
              
Verse: 
           Am               Ammaj7/F#                      
Took the fireworks and the vanity 
      F                       C 
The circuit board and the city streets 
F                       C 
Shooting stars, swaying palm tree 
G                           Am 
Laid it at the Arbiters feet 
        Am                                  Ammaj7/F# 
If I could change my mind, change the paradigm 
   F                  C 
Prepare myself for another life 
    F                      C 
Forgive myself for the many times 
     G                                           Am 
I was cruel to something helpless and weak 
 
 
     F                      G 
But here it come, that heavy love 
     C                           Am 
I?m never gonna move it alone 
F                     G 
Here it come, that heavy love 
C                      Am 
Tag it on a tenement wall 
F                      G 
Here it come that heavy love 
E7/Ab                          Am 
Someone gotta share in the load 
F                     G 
Oh here it come that heavy love 
    F            G               C 
I?m never gonna move it alone 
 
Interlude 
...C5 G5 F5 E5 (listen to song for rhythm) 
 
Am C F C F Am G (play chords in the normal pattern) 
 
Verse: 
I was dressed in white 
Touched by something pure 
death pobsessed like a teenager 
Sold my tortured youth, pissed in vinegar 
I?m still angry with no reason to be 
At the architect who imagined this 
For the everyman blessed sisyphus 
Slipping steadily into madness 
Now thats the only place to be free 
 
Chorus: 
But here it come, that heavy love 
You?re never gonna move it alone 
Here it come, that heavy love 
Tatooed on a criminals arm 
Here it come that heavy love 
Someone gotta share in the load 
Oh here it come that heavy love 
You?re never gonna move it alone 
 
Instrumental  
C5 G5 F5 E5 (listen to song for rhythm) 
 
Am C F C F Am G (play chords in the normal pattern) 
 
    Am     Bbm7     C 
No I don?t want to play 
         F       C            F       G 
It?s a shell game, it?s a shell game. 
 
Bridge/Verse: 
   Am                   Ammaj7/F#   
Distorted sounds on oscilloscopes 
   F                        C 
Distorted facts I could never cope 
    F                   C 
My private life is an inside joke. 
  G                       Am 
No one will explain it to me 
          Am                   Ammaj7/F#  
WIll it be everything that we ever need 
 F                C 
Everyone on the count of three, 
 F                C 
Everyone on the count of three 
     G 
All together now. 
 
Chorus: 
But here it come, that heavy love 
We?re never gonna move it alone 
Here it come, that heavy love 
PLaying as the cylinder rolls 
Here it come that heavy love 
I only wanna share in the load 
Oh here it come that heavy love 
I?m never gonna move it alone 
 
C5 G5 F5 E5 
C5 G5 F5 E5