Neko Case – Red Tide (Guitar)

Bm
There’s a smell here that stands my hairs on end

 G                       Em
Dog hair in the heater, gas pumps and cedar

    Bm
And jacknives on the nine

    G                  Em
and seabirds choked on fishing line

Bm
Clouds say hush but the chainsaws mush on

G              Em
to Custer and Columbia

Bm                                        G
Salty tentacles shrink in the sun but the red tide is over

    Em
The mollusks they have won

Bm
There’s a smell here of gravel and cigarettes lit

         G
When the match made them sweet

         Em                     G
When the engine turned over and beat up our street

    Bm
Oh, that was the day

   D
To remember

  D
I remember because of the fires that leapt

         G
From the caves of the things that have not happened yet

       Bm                                     A     add Ab
When I think of it now they smell to me quite sinister

  D
I want to go back and die at the drive in

G
Die before strangers can say

D          G
I hate the rain

D          G
I hate the rain