MAGNETIC FIELDS - "when the open road is closing in" Tablature

Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 14:40:21 +0100
From: Benjamin Flynn <cflynn@haverford.edu>
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
cflynn@haverford.edu


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