Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

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 I in my longing fly out in the night

unveiled and irreverently dressed

 I’m lip-stuck and liquored up- picking a fight

 I’m the wicked wicked witch of the west

over the alleyways, backward and blind

 and the sad and insatiable sprawl

over the marketplace, darkly defined

his desert is sounding a call

he was a businessman twenty-five years

 when the angel appeared with his orders

 I am making you mine, my divine volunteer

 and I’m flying you over the border

 and he can’t recall where it all fell apart

 was it north of medina or south?

 where the prophecy ends and the politics start

 where the weapon went into his mouth

Bridge

and everyone’s sleeping, and he’s flying out

 and no one can keep him down now

(Instrumental, Same Chords Verse)

 the morning delivers the news to my door

 of my president’s war in the east

 but he doesn’t tell me and I don’t know who’s

 in the belly and who is the beast

 when there’s no place to run to, when there’s no place to hide

 it won’t matter whose side you are on

 like the bomb in the basement we couldn’t stop if we tried

 and it won’t be long, and it won’t be long, and it won’t be long...

| / slide up

| \ slide down

 | hammer-on

| p pull-off

| ~ vibrato

| + harmonic

| x Mute note