1979

Mi7+   Mi   La       Mi7+   Mi

La                            Mi7+   Mi
  Shakedown nineteen seventy nine,
La                          Mi7+   Mi
  Cool kids never have the time.
    La                            Fa#m7
On a live wire right up off the street
        Si        Mi7+   Mi
You and I should meet.

La                         Mi7+   Mi
  Junebug skipping like a stone
La                                Mi7+   Mi
  With headlights pointed at the dawn.
La
  We were sure we'd never see
   Fa#m7      Si
An end to it all.

    Mi       Mi7+ Lamaj7                      Mi
And I don't even  care to shake these zipper blues,
    Mi7+    Lamaj7                          Mi
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
   Mi7+  Lamaj7
To dust I guess
                Fa#m7            Si       Mi7+   Mi
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below.

La       Mi7+   Mi

La                                 Mi7+   Mi
  Double cross the vacant and the bored,
La                                       Mi7+   Mi
  They're not sure just what we have in store.
La                         Fa#          La
  Morphine city slippin' dues down to see:

     Mi        Mi7+ Lamaj7                  Mi
That we don't even  care as restless as we are,
   Mi7+    Lamaj7                          Mi
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts.
    Mi7+    Lamaj7
And poured cement,
               Si
Lamented and assured.

                  Do#m     La
To the lights and towns below,
Si               Do#m      La
Faster than the speed of sound,
Si              Do#m          La    Fa#m7      Si        Mi7+   Mi
Faster than we thought we'd go beneath the sound of hope.

La                        Mi7+   Mi
  Justine never knew the rules,
La                               Mi7+   Mi
  Hung down with the freaks and ghouls.
    La                      Mi7+   Mi
No a-pologies ever need be made,
La                            Fa#m7       Si
  I know you better than you fake it to see:

     Mi        Mi7+ Lamaj7                      Mi
That we don't even  care to shake these zipper blues,
    Mi7+    Lamaj7                          Mi
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
   Mi7+  Lamaj7
To dust I guess,
                Fa#m             Si       Mi7+   Mi
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below.

La                                 Mi7+   Mi
  The street heats the urgency of now.
La                            Mi
  As you see there's no one around.