Neko Case – The Needle Has Landed (Guitar)

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[Verse 1]
Em                     C    Em
Here I am in traffic's slow flow (Where the needle touched down)

Em                   C               Em
Carbon planes draw a cage around the air force base (where the needle touched down)

Em                         C        Em
My foot on the brake it's ok to fly low

     C         F
Over poor Spanaway
[Verse 2]
   C                         F
An eagle swooped down from a semi-trailer

         C                        F
Took the name of your town from a shark-toothed freighter

    C                      F
The needle's the same it recorded and played

         C                            F
When you left me at the greyhound the year I moved away

    C                        F
And if I knew then what's so obvious now

G                   C
You'd still be here baby

   F     Fm
My baby, baby
[Bridge] C F C F [Verse 3]
   C                       F            
So that's why I never come back here

C                           F
That's why they spit out my name

     C                       F 
Your exes have clawed up the bible

G                  C
Trying to keep me away

         C                  F
With the sledge of tectonic fever

    G                  C
The needle has landed again

       G  C
Let it play
[Verse 4]
        Em             G  C
And the needle touched down

               F
The needle has landed

        Em             G  C
And the needle touched down

               F
The needle has landed
[Verse 5]
   C                         F
An eagle swooped down from a semi-trailer

         C                        F
Took the name of your town from a shark-toothed freighter

    C                        F
And if I knew then what's so obvious now

G                   C
You'd still be here baby
[Outro] C F Fm (repeat)