Dispatch – Painted Yellow Lines (Guitar)

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Album: 'America,Location 12' Release June 2nd, 2017 [Intro] Am G C Em Am G C Em D [Verse 1]
Am  Em     G    Am     D G
Aw    it's dark outside

Am   Em                   Am  G C D
I've been trying to get a ride

D        Am   G  Am
While my bo - dy waits

   G    D
My body waits
[Chorus]
C    Am
America

G       C
Warm my face

          Am     G           C
I've been trying to turn the page
[Verse 2]
Am           G      Em
Once I was a little boy

Am            D    G
Staring at my shoes

Am       Em
You came along and found

C         Am      C   D
Me in the chicken coop
[Interlude]
    C
But time takes over

Am
I can't say when

           C
Time takes over

D
May we do it again
[Bridge]
              G                   Am
Take me to the beachhead let's go over

Am
All of those rocks

                  D
At the end of the road

                G
Take me down to main

               Am
Street with no clothes on

         Em
With our bare feet on the

C              G
Painted yellow lines with

            Am         Em
Our shadows far behind us

                C          G
Broke into that summer school

                  Am               D
And fooled around on the infirmary cot

              C              G
And we can be like all those fairies

             Am                   Em
Making their rain angels in the eddies

              C    G
And I have no expectation

        Am             C Em Am C Em
Just an adolescent heart
[Verse 3]
D       Em      Am   D Am
Aw it's dark outside

          Em              Am   C
I've been trying to get a ride

         Am
While my body waits

        G    D
My body waits
[Chorus]
C    Am Em
America

     C
Warm my face

     Am       Em         C
I've been trying to turn the page
[Verse 4]
Am           G      Em  Am
Once I was a little boy

C          D        Am
Staring at my shoes

         G
You came along and found

C  Am
Me in the chicken coop
[Interlude]
    C
But time takes over

Am
I can't say when

     C
Time takes over

D
May we do it again
[Bridge]
               G                  Am
Take me to the beachhead let's go over

Am
All of those rocks

                  D
At the end of the road

D
Help me down the

G                  Am
Seawall let's find Marci

               Em
See if she got that

      C           G
Invitation to the movie

G
The one where the

     Am             Em
Kids break out of juvie

            C              G
And then by their own admission

                 Am             D
They go and turn themselves all in

                 C            G
Just as they get there to the station

          Am
The young one wheels

             Em
And begs the pavement

            C                    G
For brother speed to make arrangements

             A              D
With the spirits of the night
[Verse 5]
               G
Take me to the race

               Am
Track let's go bet on

           C
Aw the one that no

C                  D
One expects to win now

                 G
Let's bet on the skinny horse

        Am
He will surely try the

    Em
Hardest to come in first

  C               G
I bet you for the winner

            Am                 Em
They put on some kind of fancy dinner

                    C            G
Let's be like those Philadelphia sisters

                 Am
That have prayed straight

              D
For a hundred years
[Tag]
       C       G
I have no expectation

           Am          Em
Just to be here in the present

      C                G
And behold you for a second

  Am                D
Before it all goes away
[Interlude]
        Em
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah,

        C
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah,

        Em
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah,

         Am         D
Before it all goes away

        Em
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah,

        C
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah,

        Em            Am   D
Ah, Ah, Ah, ah, ah, ah------
[Outro]
          Em
And those painted yellow lines

            C
With our shadows far behind

           Em
Broke into that summer school

            Am                     D
And fooled around on the infirmary cot

              Em
And we can be like all those fairies

                  C
Making their rain angels in the eddies

           Em
And I have no expectation

        Am         D
Just an adolescent heart