Counting Crows – Palisades Park (Guitar)

 A       E
Somebody screamed and all of Jim Jeffries' dreams

                D
Explode into a black fist, he falls to the floor

A                    E
He stares up at the sky and he may wish he knew why

                  D
But you can't go back there no more

F#m
Future sounds so crazy

           A 
We've all heard that song before

 F#m 
Tomorrow's the name we change from yesterday to blame

                          A
When the train just don't stop here anymore

A     E
I got starry-eyed on the coaster ride

              D
Andy says, "man I need a break from the world outside"

         A  E
These days my life just careens through a pinball machine

                      D
I could do so much better but I can't get off the tilt

              F#m
And there's a photograph on the TV

                A
Black and white and Andy says something to you

F#m
Jack Johnson straddling Reno, Nevada like

              A
She says, "I forget myself sometimes too"

F#m
Out past the doorways where we are sleeping

          B
Well, the white queens creep

    A
Now I'm not breaking,

    B
The train's just shaking,

  E                      A
I never made it here before,

A                                        B
There's a white mouse spinning the girls around,

         E                  A
'Til they can't take it anymore

           A
I used to dream in the dark 

   B
of Palisades park

E
Up over the cliffs and 

A
down among the sparks

A
It's a long life

B
Full of long nights

           E             B         A            
But it was not what I was waiting for

D              C#m                           F#m
Everybody's seen the horses diving down the shore

        C#m                               F#m
It's a miracle they don't make them anymore.

E
So make up ladies, wake up baby

A            E
You walked into the bar like some Saturday star

                  D
Stud-straight on spiked heels and needles and nerves,

A       E
You're a down town pride, fully amplified Clyde,

              D
Gin-tight and aging but well-preserved,

         F#m
Remember Andy outside your bedroom window,

                        A
Saying "come on, let's drive across to the Palisades"

      F#m
Keep going 'til we hit Reno, Nevada

                  A
I don't see Andy all that much these days,

                 F#m
Still there are pages in back,

            B
Where, the white queens creep

         A
Now the trains not braking,

     B
The track's just shaking,

   E                     A
I never made it here before,

               A                     B
And there's a sky rocket turning the world around,

E                       A
'Til I can't take it anymore

A
You can carry that spark

     B 
from Palisades park

E                        A
Down over the cliffs and out into the dark

A
It's a long life

B
Full of long nights

           E             B        A
But it was not what I was looking for

D                  C#m                        F#m
Everybody dreams of horses flying round the shore

        C#m                             F#m
It's a bad dream we're not having anymore

E
Man,

          F#m
Have you seen Andy?

     E
Hey man hey man!

                     F#m
Have you seen him around?

     E
Hey man!

                                    F#m           
Have you seen my my my my my my my Andy?

         E
Have you seen him? x 4 Hey!

                      F#m
Have you seen Andy around?

E
Dressed up in our pirate best

     F#m
All leathers and feather and pearls

          A
Andy said, "look at me man, I'm cooking these hands could

E
Finger up this whole world"

               E
He said, "come outside

F#m
Climb out your bedroom window

A                                E
Shimmy down the fire escape and say good-bye

E
Come outside"

                                     F#m
Andy says, "I'm dressed up just like Edie

                             A                            E
Changing all the time my leopard spots to polka dots and say good-bye

 E
Come outside 

                    F#m
Well maybe we could move to California

 A                               E
Just meet me at the subway and say good-bye

 E
Come outside

                          F#
The cops all think we're crazy

                            A
If you stay you'll just get married

                                          E         
To a girl who'll never know you and then say good-bye

E
Hey man, have you seen Andy?

   F#m
I lost her in the sun

      A
I was high as a kite on lovely and white

               E
Man, you could lose anyone

E
Hey hey man, have you seen Andy?

F#m
I don't know where she's gone

A
But real love outlives teenage lust

                 E
We could get wet and it keeps us warm

F#m
Love is like angel dust

   E
...sometimes not

F#m
Have you bee aching to trust or just...?

A
Have you been waking yourself with lust...?

F#m                                            A
Have you been making us up or just taking us home?

E
It's a long wait

        E
At a long light

           E
Cars frozen in flight

    A
All the traffic stops to stare

F#m
At a crosswalk in Reno, Nevada

A
Wearing nothing but air

              F#m
And a pair of grey paper wings

                          A
Andy thinks, "man, I have got nothing to wear"

F#m
We got nothing new and

A
We got nothing to wear

A
We got nothing to wear

A              
We got nothing to wear