Neko Case – Curse Of The I-5 Corridor (Guitar)

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C
I waited too long to write this down

    C          C/B         Am
The startling sensation is fading

The sweet, sweet burn

                                    D/F#
Of the first drink of the night, underage

F                                            C
Knowing that you're gonna get away with it

C
You were a good man before you knew it

             F
And I'm not vain enough to think that

              Am
I'd have been good for you if I'd stayed

        F
In the current of your life

                                        C
I was an eyelash in the shipping lanes

C
And now I'm so scared about mystery

   Am     Em/G
I fear I smell extinction

        D/F#
In the folds of this novocaine age coming on

C
I miss the smell of mystery

 Am    G              F
Reverb leaking outta tavern doors

And not knowing how the sounds were made

C
So I left home and faked my ID

C/Bb
I fucked every man that I wanted to be

          Am
I was so stupid then

           D/F#              F
Why should mystery give its life for me?

C
Baby, I'm afraid

But it's not your fault Maybe I should go

Em          F
Home alone tonight

C
Baby, I'm afraid

But it's not your fault Maybe I should go

Em         F
Home alone tonight

[Musical interlude] Am E x4

C
Now I see you in our old home

Where I'm always scared to go

      Am             Em/G
Those thirty garbage miles

Making wet cigarette butts and used tires

F
To be poor as the anchor that makes us so sure

C7
Your sandy voice across my brow

You haven't aged a day

                           F
Is it because you took a shortcut

That makes people say you're crazy Is it true? You're a time traveler, you Is it true? I've seen crazy too

             C    G/B    Am
Can it be a comfort between us?

            F
Because I never want to know for sure

C
Baby, I'm afraid

But it's not your fault Maybe I should go

Em         F
Home alone tonight

C
Baby, I'm afraid

But it's not your fault Maybe I should go

Em         F
Home alone tonight

Am F/A D/F# Fmaj7

C
Now I write this in a pale town

      Am               G
Where excitement is a yellow curb

Fmaj7
My dream awake leaps through my window

         Am
From the highway

Am
You turn my head and set the brake too late

Fmaj7
Release the tears of metric tons

D/F#
The crash, it comes (comes, comes)

F
And pours down my public face

Am
Behind a reservoir of collarbones

Fmaj7                 D7/F#                 F
And forms two private lakes (lakes, lakes, lakes, lakes)

F      E
Baby, I'm afraid

Am
Your orbit is so easy

E
You haven't gained a day

Am
We're two self-fulfilling prophecies

Fmaj7
Who don't even have each other

D7/F#                      F
Not that we would ever get away with it

|Am E | Am Fmaj7/A D7/A F/A