Written by Adam Duritz
Intro - Piano & Horn -------------------- G# C# A# A# C# G# C# G# x 2 C# G# Somebody screamed and all of Jim Jeffries' dreams F# Explode into a black fist, he falls to the floor C# G# He stares up at the sky and he may wish he knew why F# But you can't go back there no more A# Future sounds so crazy G# We've all heard that song before A# Tomorrow's the name we change from yesterday to blame G# When the train just don't stop here anymore C# G# I got starry-eyed on the coaster ride F# Andy says, "man I need a break from the world outside" C# G# These days my life just careens through a pinball machine F# I could do so much better but I can't get off the tilt A# And there's a photograph on the TV G# Black and white and Andy says something to you A# Jack Johnson straddling Reno, Nevada like G# She says, "I forget myself sometimes too" A# Out past the doorways where we are sleeping D# Well, the white queens creep And the Tom cats peep Chorus ------ C# Now I'm not breaking, D# The train's just shaking, G# C# I never made it here before, C# D# There's a white mouse spinning the girls around, G# C# 'Til they can't take it anymore C# I used to dream in the dark D# of Palisades park G# Up over the cliffs and C# down among the sparks C# It's a long life D# Full of long nights A# D# C# But it was not what I was waiting for F# F A# Everybody's seen the horses diving down the shore F A# It's a miracle they don't make them anymore. G# So make up ladies, wake up baby C# G# You walked into the bar like some Saturday star F# Stud-straight on spiked heels and needles and nerves, C# G# You're a down town pride, fully amplified Clyde, F# Gin-tight and aging but well-preserved, A# Remember Andy outside your bedroom window, G# Saying "come on, let's drive across to the Palisades" A# Keep going 'til we hit Reno, Nevada G# I don't see Andy all that much these days, A# Still there are pages in back, Of the action stacks D# Where, the white queens creep And the Tom cats peep and... C# Now the trains not braking, D# The track's just shaking, G# I never made it here before, C# D# And there's a sky rocket turning the world around, G# C# 'Til I can't take it anymore C# You can carry that spark D# from Palisades park G# C# Down over the cliffs and out into the dark C# It's a long life D# Full of long nights A# D# C# But it was not what I was looking for F# F A# Everybody dreams of horses flying round the shore F A# It's a bad dream we're not having anymore G# Man, A# Have you seen Andy? G# Hey man hey man! A# Have you seen him around? G# Hey man! A# Have you seen my my my my my my my Andy? G# Have you seen him? x 4 Hey! A# Have you seen Andy around? G# Dressed up in our pirate best A# All leathers and feather and pearls D# Andy said, "look at me man, I'm cooking these hands could G# Finger up this whole world" D# He said, "come outside D# Climb out your bedroom window C# Shimmy down the fire escape and say good-bye D# Come outside" A# Andy says, "I'm dressed up just like Edie G# Changing all the time my leopard spots to polka dots and say good-bye D# Come outside A# Well maybe we could move to California C# Just meet me at the subway and say good-bye D# Come outside A# The cops all think we're crazy If you stay you'll just get married G# To a girl who'll never know you and then say good-bye G# Hey man, have you seen Andy? A# I lost her in the sun C# I was high as a kite on lovely and white G# Man, you could lose anyone G# Hey hey man, have you seen Andy? A# I don't know where she's gone C# But real love outlives teenage lust G# We could get wet and it keeps us warm D# Love is like angel dust Lovely sometimes changes us G# ...sometimes not D# Have you bee aching to trust or just...? A# Have you been waking yourself with lust...? C# A# Have you been making us up or just taking us home? G# It's a long wait C# G# At a long light C# G# Cars frozen in flight C# G# All the traffic stops to stare A# At a crosswalk in Reno, Nevada C# Wearing nothing but air A# And a pair of grey paper wings C# Andy thinks, "man, I have got nothing to wear" A# We got nothing new and C# We got nothing to wear C# We got nothing to wear C# G# We got nothing to wear