The Handsome Family – Lake Geneva (Guitar)

          E
You are crouched before the fire 

      F#m
in a state park by the highway 

       B
and through the heavy pine trees 

          A                E
ten-ton trucks go groaning by

            E
Like the screams of your Aunt Barbara 

          F#m
who went crazy in the 70's

       B
wrote poems to Jimmy Carter 

        A               E
but forgot to feed her kids

              G#m
But it's the first time you're together 

          A              E
since he got out of the hospital

G#m
Raccoons in the darkness 

      A               B
drag off your hotdog buns

             E
But, you're happy just to lie there 

         F#m
in your plastic tent from Wal-Mart 

       B
like sticks and fallen dead leaves 

             A           E
to feed the fire of the world

     E        F#m               B                A         E
e|---4------------------------4/2-----2--4-----2-------------|
B|-5------5--5/2------2--------------------------5---5---2-5-|
G|-----------------------4-----------------------------------|
D|-----------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------|

      E
But which is more important, 

   F#m
to comfort an old woman 

        B
or see visions of the heavens 

         A                E
in the stumps of fallen trees?

G#m 
Albert Einstein trembled 

         A                 E
when he saw that time was water, 

G#m
seeping through the rafters 

        A                B
to put out this burning world

    E          F#m             B                  A      E 
e|---------------------------------------------------------------16-|
B|-------------------------------------------------------/17--------|
G|-13----------------------------------------13-13/14---------------|
D|-14---14----------16--16------------------------------------------|
A|---------14-14/16-------------16--16/18---------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------------------------|

      E
Next morning you're at Waffle House

 F#m
Toast and eggs and hash browns

  B
Truckers chain-smoke Camels 

       A              E
over plastic cups of juice

          G#m
And you remember how he cried 

             A                   E
when they strapped him to the stretcher, 

   G#m 
convinced his arms were burning 

           A           E
with electricity from heaven

       G#m
You remember how he told you 

       A                    E
that black holes were like Jesus

          G#m
And the crucifix was a battery 

      A                   B
that filled the air with fire