D               F#m
Shrill as a choir of children
Urgent like the first day of May
False and inflatable feeling
D               F#m             D
Tugs at my senses, big as the Macy's Parade

D               F#m
One brick on top of another
Such as the measure of man
Planets are inset like diamonds
D               F#m             D
On a gravity halo, eternity's wedding band

D               F#m
I slept with that dealer all summer
The ecstasy is still in my spine
Coat check I couldn't remember
D               F#m             D
Walked into the winter, came out on the other side

A       Bm      G
In the South the sun is shining
Back in the East the lights went out

D               F#m
Stuck on the ladder to heaven
On trial way back in The Hague
Lullaby sounds from the engine
D               F#m             D
In my Styrofoam coffin, asleep on the interstate

D               F#m
Black globes, old symbols of freedom
A murderer still on the lam
Cities encircled in iron
D               F#m             D
On a great silver beltway, democracy's shackled hands

D               F#m
Seance that brought us together
Objects we move with our mind
Coat check and I lost the number
D               F#m             D
Short sleeves in the winter, fell back through the other side

A       Bm      G
Out in the West the cars are crashing
Up in the North the ice gave out.