Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

(This part is actually played on bass, but I use it to fill the first few bars

before the guitar comes in.)

Well I'm free, I'm free like the world, I am

I'm higher than the moon and so much higher still to go

I'm dancing on the silver star,

my boot prints on the white-wall tire

(Guitar begins)

See, see everyone's beautiful

Beautiful and terrified by the sun

 that's rising up in the east

 I gotta find my way home soon

 or I'll just drown in my delight

And if I stumble my way through another year of blindness

 I don't deserve to come down from these drugs inside my brain

 And if I fumble my way to the people who are mindless

 I guess I get what's coming to me and my evil wicked ways

Run, faster than light through me

 You can soak my nerves in this vibration

Riding through your imagination

Boot prints on the yellow fire

 My footprints on the gilded star

 But death, it's more than I can bear tonight

 It's not the thought of being gone or the dark that I don't like

 But more confused by the emptiness of breath (where does it go?)

And if I stumble my way through another year of blindness

 I don't deserve to come down from these drugs inside my brain

 And if I stumble my way to the people who are mindless

 I guess I get what's coming to me and my evil wicked ways

The rules I make have just lost the way

 like guarantees and beds we make

 While life goes on for bread and cake

 the ground it rumbles cracks and shakes

Underfoot the bugs and snakes

 they carry us, they carry us away from here

 And underground it's happy deep

 where you go down

 Oh, hallelujah, God is great

 You're never wrong, you're never late

 'Cause he designs these pretty things

 I, when I die, I simply go alone.