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Her Name Is A.
04:37
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Her Name Is A.
David Elias © 2002
4/4
Chord Tab:
“Fs” is 1X0011
Cs” is X20010
Intro
| C Cs | Fs Fs |
| C Cs | Fs Fs |
C Cs
Her name is A.
Fs
I don’t expect to know the
C Cs Fs
End
C Cs
But that’s OK
Fs
I’ll take a chance on her
C Cs Fs
again
G
Through the dust and fog
F
She’s dancing in a crowd
G
She’s looking over
F
And the music’s not too loud
G
I should know better
F G
But I think that I know everything
C Cs | Fs G |
Her name is A.
I don’t expect her to remember
The other day
It’s just a memory anyway
I watch the crowd
That I am not part of anyhow
I reach my mind back
To the last full moon the starry plough
She is a vision
Of the place I have to get back to
Somehow
- Solo -
|C Cs | Fs G |
|C Cs | Fs G |
Her name is A.
A picture will just have to do
Two shades of grey
For the left and the right part of
The heart I never knew
I’m standing here
Between the painting and the prose
With one arm raised up
And the sand between my toes
An old romantic
Well they say that’s how it goes…
Her name is A.
She came back as a silhouette
And made her way
In that way I can’t forget
Somewhere between the expectation and regret
All of this beauty may replace them if I let it
I should know better
But I think that I know everything
- Solo -
|C Cs | Fs G |
|C Cs | Fs G |
|C Cs | Fs G |
|C Cs | Fs G |
C Cs
Her name is A.
Fs G C
I don’t expect to know the end
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2. |
Freedom On The Freeway
03:22
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Freedom on the freeway run me down
Seein' little bits of every little town
And I’m not the kind of guy to hang you down
I’m only here to disappear
I guess I run around
I’m only here to disappear
I guess I run around
Highballs on the highway what’d you say
Thinking about you every other day
And I’m just the kind of guy that drives away
I’m only here to disappear
I guess I’m made that way
I’m only here to disappear
I guess I’m made that way
Hey who’s that there on my tail
Another fugitive for freedom or from jail
I’m like a postcard in the mail
Self addressed to who knows best
Go on read me what the hell
Running down the road I’ll take my time
Loosen up the gridlock in my mind
And I love my Chevron coffee – suits me fine
We’re only here to disappear
Best enjoy that ride
You’re only here to disappear
You best enjoy that ride
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3. |
Summer Wind
06:49
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4/4 – Capo 4th Fret
Gsus is 3X2013
Gsus2 is 3X0023
Intro
G |
G
Summer wind don’t wait for no one
It sure enough will blow right by
Nothin like those evening breeze covers at night
And when you’re followin your own road
Headin out to bigger sky
Think of me and how that summer wind was right
And winter wheat don’t wait for no one
It stares alone at empty skies
Nothin like the way those highways run at night
And while you’re walkin down your own row
Settled on your own horizon
Think of me and how that winter wheat was right
You run another year you turn around
You run another year you turn around
Tides of spring they wait for no one
They run along, won’t wave goodbye
Nothin like those hearts and souls they keep locked tight
And while you’re runnin down your own road
Carrying tears you couldn’t cry
Think of me and how those tides of spring were right
Autumn winds they wait for summer
Beckoning through winter’s gate
Hoping spring won’t follow more than its own fate
So while you’re followin your own road
Wonderin what it was for
Think of me and how the autumn winds knew more
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4. |
Go Down Easy
04:55
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Jimmy was the man with the grandstand plan
And a couple more up his sleeve
He stole a 4x4 robbed a liquor store
On the night before New Year’s Eve
And he was runnin down the road
Drinkin Wild Irish Rose
With a smile and a sneer
But the plans that he laid
Didn’t allow for barricades
Or the 8 to 15 years
Go down easy
No strugglin on the way
Stickin to the things that you do best
Give a little lovin every day
Take it easy
But take it just the same
Happiness it ain’t no crime
Everybody gets to play that game
Sally was the girl with the ivory curls
And the movie poster smile
She whizzed her way through school
She followed all the rules
With her slow and steady style
She graduated fast at the head of her class
Went to a party in a summer dress
Ridin shotgun in a car
That was leavin from the bar
Into an 18-wheel caress
Go down easy…
Rita and Romaine were a burnin flame
In the class of ‘61
People sure admired the intensity of fire
They displayed for everyone
Both were mesmerized
Lookin in the other’s eyes
They saw the spark and the saddness there
So they had a couple kids
They were kind of glad they did
But it cost their whole affair
Go down easy…
And I was lookin at my life
At the pictures without lights
There were images of you
And I was never really sure
If there ever was a war
Or we just did what we needed to
It reminds me of a time in 1969
I was walkin through the woods
Trees and flowers there unfolded like a prayer
Hell I never felt so good
Go down easy…
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5. |
The Old King
05:04
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Hear them cheering for your dying day
See them wipe your feet with dust and clay
Never mind the near ones where they lay
Memories of clear ones there they stay
There they stay
Hear them clear away your open grave
Watch them lower you down into place
Night will pass eternal into space
While the sun burns coins laid on your face
On your face
Consciousness returns to summer’s eyes
Windmills spin their patterns through the skies
Heavy air returns to times gone by
No one meets your gaze or even tries
Even tries
Crows in pairs are sentries to your doom
Watchers of the seeds you plant to soon
Blackening the sky they leave no room
For the sun to shine down on your tomb
On your tomb
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6. |
Something About You
02:49
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There’s something about you
I don’t know
Something about those places we go
The window is open to the valley below
Something about you I really don’t know
Something about you
I just don’t know
I look in my head for a part of last summer
Search in my heart for a piece of the pie
You and I play the part of one different drummer
The music is clear as the sun in the sky
The music is clear as the sun in the sky
When grandma appears as clear as a crow
I feel like I’m with somebody I really know
The garden is green wherever you go
There’s something about you I really don’t know
Something about you
I just don’t know
Time takes a detour and restlessness waits
We’re walkin outside of the city’s main gates
We’re seein the world in an alternate state
It’s you and me baby the rest can just wait
It’s you and me baby the rest can just wait
There’s something about you
I don’t know
Something about those places we go
The window is open to the valley below
Something about you I really don’t know
Something about you
I just don’t know
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8. |
Half An Hour Away
03:35
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I wish I had a field of corn
Or half a rag to keep me warm
A bag of bones to blow my horn
Time to fade away
I wish I had a bowl of wheat
Or half an ear to keep the beat
See me on a one way street
Half an hour away
Old time
Old time old time
Half an hour away
I wish I had a room of gin
And all the keys to lock me in
Never see my face again
Time to fade away
I wish there was a world of green
And half the time to be unseen
Never what you really mean
Half an hour away
Old time
Old time old time
Half an hour away
I’ll look for you in dreams come true
When all you see is what you do
Never mind the world you knew
Half an hour away
Old time
Old time old time
Half an hour away
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10. |
Season Of The Fall
05:00
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4/4 “D/B” is X20021
“A7sus” is X02030
Intro
D D/C# | D/B | A7sus | A |
D D/C# | D/B | A7sus | A |
D D/C#
I am an old man
D/B A7sus A
I am the writing on the wall
D D/C#
I’ve seen a few but they will
D/B A7sus A
Say that I have seen it all
G D
Not a lot of confidence
G A
Even less of self-esteem
D D/C# D/B
That is my means of transportation
A D
Hey, or I can’t move at all
D D/C# | D/B | A7sus | A |
I am a witness of the future
I’m a remnant of the past
I roll in oceans
I will always sing
The song that fails to last
Bones and bakeries
And all that lies in between
These things will shape the weight
of presence
With the first stone that is cast
I am a mirror
I am the side of some old barn
I cannot hear you
I am far farther than long gone
Patience and practicals
May never have been
That is the means of emulation
In the season of the fall
- Solo -
D D/C# | D/B | A7sus | A |
D D/C# | D/B | A7sus | A |
Bridge
G D
It’s not time for that reality
G D
It’s not time for some old charm
G D
In the end a near fatality
Em A A7
Broken minds and broken hearts
D D/C# D/B
I am a picture of the answer
A7sus A
I’m a means unto the end
D D/C# D/B
I am the slowest of all dancers
A7sus A
And I dance without a friend
G
So don’t pause for those
D
Concessions
G A A7
If you know what I mean
D D/C# D/B
As I make my way this warm day
A D
On my stroll across the green
D/C# D/B
I will be making my own way
A A7 D
On my stroll across the green
- Solo -
D D/C# | D/B | A7sus | A |
Repeat…
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11. |
The Window
05:53
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Tune low E to D
4/4 “Dm” is 0X0231
“F” is 3X0210
“G” is 5X0430
Intro
| Dm C | Dm |
| Dm C | Dm |
| Dm C | F G |
| Dm C | Dm |
Dm C Dm
I don’t have any answers
Dm C Dm
And I don’t have any guns
Dm C Dm
I keep my eye on the window
Dm C Dm
I keep my eye on the sun
(Solo – repeat intro)
Dm C Dm
And I own nothing that’s holy
Dm C Dm
Except ideas yet to come
Dm C Dm
I keep my eye on the window
Dm C Dm
And pray for daylight to come
Bridge
F Dm
There’s water under the ocean
F Dm
It feels the weight of the world
F Dm
And me I have no emotion
| F | G | Dm | Dm |
(Solo – repeat intro)
Dm C Dm
The window is my new religion
Dm C Dm
It shows me part of what is there
Dm C Dm
The light and darkness share the vision
Dm C Dm
And neither cares how long I stare
Dm C Dm
And neither cares how long I stare
Dm C Dm
And neither cares how long
| F | G | Dm | Dm
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12. |
Picture Of Nothing
03:34
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Intro
| C | C |
C
A picture of nothing does nothing
F
to free up my mind
Am
Those roses have dried up the
G
water's a waste of their time
F
I'd like nothing better than to
C
return to days of our song
G F
But a picture of nothing is all
G C
that will last for that long
I try to remember the hopes in my heart way back when
When only love mattered and running around with my friends
I'd go back tomorrow if I could only remember the way
But a picture of nothing is the only map I see these days
- Solo -
| C | C | F | F |
| Am | Am | G | G |
| F | F | C | C |
| G | F G | C | C |
- Bridge -
E Am F C
Try, I try, I try to unwind
E F G G
All those years I left behind
C
So I sit with my back to the
F
desert of all that I've done
Am
And try not to hold on to things
G
that have set with the sun
F
And I won't hold to tears that go
C
running off into the night
G
I'll take my last picture of
F G
nothing and wait for the next
C
morning light
G
I'll take my last picture of
F G
nothing and wait for the next
C F C G C
morning light
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13. |
Vision Of Her
05:07
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Sitting at the edge of your world
Holding on your legs where they curl
Looking for the vision of her
The vision of her
Staring down the year inside out
Making do within and without
Never finding reasons to doubt
The vision of her
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