Capo 5

Ten mile west of nowhere with nowhere left to go
Flat on my back as airplanes track their way out to the coast
I don’t know why they paint the sky with their vapor trails
Maybe if all else fails they can follow them home

Chorus 1:
And if they can why can't yo-o-o-o-o-u
Take a look up at the [D/F#]sky
You can cho-o-ose from a hundred lines
That’s what I’d do
If I couldn’t find m[D/F#]y way back home to yo-o-o-o-o-u

I believe in angels but I don’t believe in ghosts
I’d rather fly if I’m gonna die than haunt this house alone
If I were out there on a wing and prayer and I could see
Some of the wings I’d let them lead me back home.

Chorus 2:
And if I could why can’t you
Take a look up at the sky
I would use any help that I could get
That’s what I’d do
If I couldn’t find my way back home to you, back home to you.

Chorus 2

Back home to you, back home to you, back home to you.

Verse 1
I went down to Beaumont, where the ballroom angels fly
Something in the air down there makes me afraid to die
So I looked across the channel, I couldn’t take the view without you

Passing through the midnight with the dawn upon my heels
Trying to beat the morning, lost behind the wheel
Maybe if the sunrise would wait another day, I’d be okay

I would be okay

Chorus:
Cause they’ve got stars in California, walking down the streets
Dancing on the boulevard in their golden satin sheets
Busking on the corner, for change, [C/B]for tips, and for me

For old memories

Driving through Las Cruces straddled in lies

Staring up at Jesus with the Devil on my mind

And I’m not one for praying, the desert sun can beat you to the bone

It can beat you to the bone

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G/C – 320013

Washington carved his name right here on this rock a couple hundred years ago
[G/C]Things last a whole lot longer than you?d expect, rain from a thousand storms washed across those letters
But they weathered the test of time

Shared a kiss with an old girlfriend on the spot where a founding father stood
[G/C]Lasted for a second then it was gone some things don?t last as long as you wished they would, Together
We both knew that we weren?t meant to last forever

CHORUS:
The wind blows in and the tide rolls out
Days fly by as this world spins around
Line by line and age to age
Dsus2 G G/c G G/C
We?ve all got our marks to make

There?s a table in the corner of Archie Blues that you can walk right past and never see
Hank Williams carved his name in a fit of rage and whiskey playing one night across the street
That one word Hank is Aesop, Jack, and John the Revelator.

Chorus

And I don?t know what happened to that girlfriend but I bet those letters are still right there
And Hank left us with as many songs as he could bear to write before they finished him somewhere
And as for me, as for me?

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