e: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 14:40:21 +0100
From: Benjamin Flynn
Subject: m/magnetic_fields/when_the_open_road_is_closing_in.crd
magnetic fields:charm of the highway strip
song copyrighted 1993 by Stephin Merritt
crd by Benjamin Flynn
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when the open road is closing in
intro:
A ….2.3..2….2.3..2..
E 3………..3………
repeat
G C G
time — measured in dotted yellow lines has past you by
G C G
and I never said an honest thing to you in all my life
D C
hard times go slowly
G D
and the good times never come
C G D
the world is a motor inn in a iowa highway slum
G D C
when the open road is closing in
Em D A
and you can’t say where it ends and you begin
G D C B7
when every truck stop dive’s another five years off your life
G D C
when the open road is closing in
Em D A
and the dotted yellow lines begin to spin
G D C B7
when the sky begins to fall on everything you like at all
Am D Am D G
you won’t be coming home again
ciao you keep on drowning in the roads between the towns
now i have been closing all the shutters in the house
well i know you’ll be back when every tree is turning brown
you’ll find the house is empty and the swingset’s fallen down
