Magnetic Fields

Date: 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

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