I wont represent the US
In the summer olympics
My characters questionable
My life is a broken record

Chorus:
Im shredding the document
Im keeping my mouth shut
Im running on radio silence
Im letting the record speak

Im shredding the document
The switchboard is lighting up
Im not taking anymore calls
Well maybe from Larry King

And I dont know who killed who
Im having a sex change
To a woman who loves too much
My sisters a petty thief

I doctored the evidence
Yeah it was a cover up
I want to stay wrapped in my blanket
And never get out of bed

Chorus

All rumor and innuendo
An eagles reunion
The 20th centurys closing
Its closing in on me

You know what my father said
Well Im not going to tell you
Some words that I try to live by
Its none of your goddamn business

Chorus

Im shredding the document
The switchboard is lighting up
Im not taking anymore calls
Well maybe from Oprah Winfrey

I woke her up twice in the middle of the night
To ask what her name is and where [G/B]she m[G/A]ight live
To ask how many fingers she saw in this light
To ask if she might know what g[G/B]ives[G/A]

She said we rolled that Camaro, like a cowboy cigarette
Out on the highway in a puddle o[G/B]f bee[G/A]r
That’s just about how close to death you’re gonna get
Till the only thing standing is [G/B]fear[G/A]

Singing, oh darling, f[D/F#]aces were changed
The names of the innocent, the [G/B]story [G/A]at five
Oh darling, f[D/F#]aces get strange
But only the song surv[G/B]ives[G/A]
Ah [D/F#]ha_____

She said, now don’t you remember they put a patch on your eye
Like Dread Pirate Roberts, you looked so [G/B]unpla[G/A]nned
They cut off my wedding ring and you started to cry
A one-eyed Niagara Falls [G/B]man[G/A]

Singing, oh darling, f[D/F#]aces were changed
The names of the innocent, the [G/B]story [G/A]at five
Oh darling, f[D/F#]aces get strange
But only the song surv[G/B]ives[G/A]
Ah [D/F#]ha_____

(Instrumental solo)

I said, but I never married, I said with surprise
And is this the diamond you said t[G/B]hat y[G/A]ou lost
It was under my eyelids when they flushed out my eyes
Hell and I don’t know what the thin[G/B]g cos[G/A]t

Singing, oh darling, f[D/F#]aces were changed
The names of the innocent, the [G/B]story [G/A]at five
Oh darling, f[D/F#]aces get strange
But only the song surv[G/B]ives[G/A]

Singing, oh darling, f[D/F#]aces were changed
The names of the innocent, the [G/B]story [G/A]at five
Oh darling, f[D/F#]aces get strange
But only the song surv[G/B]ives[G/A]
Ah [D/F#]ha_____

(Outro)

Capo at the second fret

Verse 1:
Close one there
Choking in clean underwear
Bleeding tongue
Eight ball pounding in my lungs
Ship to shore
I can’t see the coastline anymore
I shouldn't be here
I thought I made that loud and clear

(Chorus)

But the master of disaster Gets tangled in his telecaster
He can’t play it any faster When he plays the blues
When he had the heart to ask her And every note just shook the plaster
Now he’s just a mean old bastard When he plays the blues

Verse 2:

China town
Chasing that old dragon down
Madam Wong’s
We play the blues with the curtains drawn
Sidewalks of white
While the LA sun beat out the night
Pounding brain
My last transmission down the drain

(Chorus)

Verse 3:

There’s a debt I owe
I’ll never pay before I go
So I sing the blues
Hand me down my walking shoes
You’re in my heart
Though we may be miles apart
There’s my point
I’ll see you in another joint

(Chorus)

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Intro:

Verse 1:
Truth is I never was young
Shot like a bullet from a rusty old gun
I could never find the straight and true
Honey, baby, till I found you

Verse 2:
I ain’t sayin’ I ever grown up, girl
Oh, I’m the biggest baby in the world
I know you can say a lot about that
But you’re so sweet, you keep it under your hat

Chorus:
Honey, I’m still the same old man
That you married way back when
A few less brain cells, a lot less hair
Honey, tell me, do you still care?
I love you more than I ever did
I love you just like a little kid
Guess I’ll always be your biggest fan
Honey, I’m still the same old man

Verse 3:
We been down a rough road or two
This is another one we’ll get through
Don’t ask me how I know
I’m just saying, baby, please don’t go

Verse 4:
Cause I can still sparkle up your eyes
You can still cut me down to size
Please take me as I am
Honey, I’m still the same old man

Repeat Chorus

Verse 5:
You start out trying to change everything
You wind up dancing with who you bring
I loved you then and my love still stands
Honey, I’m still the same old man

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Well, those electric sheep to the valley they keep walkin
On the radio waves selling tennis shoes and beer
It induces sleep when that DJ starts his squawkin’
I’m lookin’ for one song to save me on this midnight clear

So how far do we have to go to hear that Pirate Radio?
One song that could steal our hearts
Before they turn into silver and gold
Well I’m drivin’ my car real slow and my baby wants to know
When we gonna hear our song on that Pirate Radio?

One star in the sky so I named it Ottis Redding
Or maybe Marvin Gaye lookin’ for his Tammi Turell
There ain’t no mountain high enough to stop this wedding
Rollin’ out of Memphis to Detroit I can hear those bells

So how far do we have to go to hear that Pirate Radio?
One song that could steal our hearts
Before they turn into silver and gold
Well I’m drivin’ my car real slow and my baby wants to know
When we gonna hear our song on that Pirate Radio?

Well, we’ve been drivin’ all night, ever since we were teenagers,
Up to that border town where the outlaw station air waves
Where the DJ’s outta sight and his heart is so courageous
And he loves every song that he’s puttin’ on for the free and brave

So how far do we have to go to hear that Pirate Radio?
One song that could steal our hearts
Before they turn into silver and gold
Well I’m drivin’ my car real slow and my baby wants to know
When we gonna hear our song
When we gonna hear our song
When we gonna hear our song
on that Pirate Radio?

D Bm G D | repeat and fade out

NB: Capo 1st Fret for the album version; Live versions usually played without capo. All
and tab relative to the capo (or actual if playing from live version)

Intro:

4 Bars Drums

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Chords:

Verse:
Sometimes I don't even move a muscle
Baby when you lie awake at night
I think I’ve got nine lives in these corpuscles
Cause girl, you know sometimes I don’t think right

Pre-Chorus:
I hear voices in the hall
I wake up and it’s nothing at all
A hungry wolf, or an agry child

Chorus:
Or something wild
Something wild
Something wild – tell me love is
Something wild – tell me love is

Verse:
It’s not as if we could think that things were one way
And they would all just be that way right now
When I was a kid I thought that someday
I could tame this lion heart, some way, somehow

Pre-Chorus:
Now I’m hungry for the love
That doesn’t know what it’s dreamin’ of
Raging for the meek and mild

Chorus:
Like something wild
Something wild
Something wild – tell me love is
Something wild – tell me love is

Bridge:
There’s a hole where the wind blows through
And some curtains hung
But I can’t hid a thing from you
You know where I come from

(Solo 4 bars)

Final Verse: (Lead only, no Rhythm)

Well I tried getting there under my own steam
‘til my very last chance was shot
Now you’re under my skin like a submarine
I can feel you in my veins running hot
Now if it’s more than a new pair of jeans, a new car, some pocket money
And a place to go
Then we better get up and scream at the top of our lungs like it
Was gonna die if we didn’t make it so

Pre-Chorus:
I hear voices in the hall
I wake up and it’s nothing at all
An angry wolf, or a hungry child

Chorus:
Or something wild
Something wild
Something wild – tell me love is
Something wild – tell me love is

Outro:
Something wild
Something wild
Something wild

Enjoy!

“She Loves the Jerk” by John Hiatt (on the CD “Riding with the King”)
Song was also covered by Rodney Crowell

INTRO

[/] [G/Am7/D]
We’ve talked it to death, cryin’ on the telephone.
Nights when he drinks at home,
she has to whisper throught her tears.[G/Am7-D/]

“Johnny,” she says, “you’d never do these things to me.”

But I can neve[Em/E]r make her see he’s wasted such precious years.
Well, “you married the wrong guy” is all I ever say.

CHORUS

He’s a no good so and so, but she'll never let him go.[Ab+]

Though she knows it will never work, she loves the jerk.
She loves the jerk.[G/Am7-D/]

2nd Verse

He was the guy always out on the make.

I guess he had what it takes to t[G/Am7-D/]urn the heads of pretty girls.

She thought he would change; the worst of us will settle down.

But he couldn’t stay out of to[Em/E]wn, not even with this precious pearl.

Now she lives with the lies and the bumps and the bruises.

REPEAT CHORUS, THEN BRIDGE

BRIDGE
Well, I hang up the phone and I pretend she’s in my arms.
What I wouldn’t give for just one-tenth
D E (Key modulates from G to
[A)]of what she gives Mister Charming.

CHORUS

He’s a no good so and so, but she’ll never let him go.[Bb+]

Though she knows it will never work, she loves the jerk.
N.C.
She loves the jerk.

OUTRO

A/D/A/D Repeat and fade

(Verse)
You finally found the mainstream In the middle of your life
You tapped into a vein Of endless gold chains Now you’re locked up tight
Tearing down the middle of it Cut it right in half
Bobbing up and down the waves like a runaway slave on a Huck Finn raft

(Chorus)
Take your wife Take your family
And Take your gun Running through the woods
And the burned out neighborhoods Looking for someone
A member of your tribe a Place you can hide
‘Til the war has begun ‘Cause in the fields before the flood
You’ll be spilling blood just like a native son

(Verse)
Where you gonna run to there ain’t no underground
If only you could fly you’d cut across the sky
Like a rifle round oh, who are your people
Tell me where is your homeland ‘Cause they’re dying side by side
At the river of pride where we tried to take a stand

(Chorus)
Take your wife Take your family
And Take your gun Running through the woods
And the burned out neighborhoods Looking for someone
A member of your tribe a Place you can hide
‘Til the war has begun ‘Cause in the fields before the flood
You’ll be spilling blood just like a native son
Take your wife Take your family
And Take your gun Running through the woods
And the burned out neighborhoods Looking for someone
A member of your tribe a Place you can hide
‘Til the war has begun ‘Cause in the fields before the flood
You’ll be spilling blood just like a native son
In the fields before the flood
You’ll be spilling blood just like a native son

take everything that we have
take it and burn it to the ground
some things were never meant to last
take it down, down, down
take it down
take it down, down, down
take it down

I”m still married to it all
that ain”t no place to hang around
my love is 50 feet tall
take it down, down, down
take it down
take it down, down, down
take it down

I”ve grown accustomed to the way
you hurled us into space
I”ll never make that trip
tears all rusted on my face
and I”m just an empty place
where your love used to fit

South Carolina where are you
we were once lost and now we”re found
the war is over, the battle”s through
take it down, down, down
take it down
take it down, down, down
take it down

You told me you’d hold me
Now I know better
All you did fold me honey
Like a dear John letter
You put me in a box
With God and his uncle
Like a pair of gym socks
Lookin’ like Artie Garfunkle

[Pre-Chorus]
You took my heart The check’s in the mail
We’ll do lunch when you get out of jail

Sure Pinocchio
Anything you say
Sure Pinocchio
Have it your own way

You took me for a ride
Well, I’m crawling out of this gutter
You hurt me down inside
What was that you muttered
Somethin’ bout wishing on a star
For a fish out of water
Well, I know who you are
Your Gepetto’s wicked daughter

[Pre-Chorus]
This hurts you more that it hurts me
You never inhale, yeah, and cops eat free

Sure Pinocchio
Anything you say
Sure Pinocchio
Have it your own way
Sure Pinocchio
What hurts me makes you stronger
Sure Pinocchio
That nose keeps gettin’ longer and longer

[Pre-Chorus]
You took my heart the check’s in the mail
We’ll do lunch when you get out of jail

Sure Pinocchio
Anything you say
Sure Pinocchio
Have it your own way
Sure Pinocchio
Anything you say
Sure Pinocchio
That nose keeps gettin’ longer and longer