Intro: E
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You are crouched before the fire
F#m
in a state park by the highway
B
and through the heavy pine trees
A E
ten-ton trucks go groaning by
E
Like the screams of your Aunt Barbara
F#m
who went crazy in the 70's
B
wrote poems to Jimmy Carter
A E
but forgot to feed her kids
G#
But it's the first time you're together
A E
since he got out of the hospital
G#
Raccoons in the darkness
A B
drag off your hotdog buns
E
But, you're happy just to lie there
F#m
in your plastic tent from Wal-Mart
B
like sticks and fallen dead leaves
A E
to feed the fire of the world
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But which is more important,
F#m
to comfort an old woman
B
or see visions of the heavens
A E
in the stumps of fallen trees?
G#
Albert Einstein trembled
A E
when he saw that time was water,
G#
seeping through the rafters
A B
to put out this burning world
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Next morning you're at Waffle House
F#m
Toast and eggs and hash browns
B
Truckers chain-smoke Camels
A E
over plastic cups of juice
G#
And you remember how he cried
A E
when they strapped him to the stretcher,
G#
convinced his arms were burning
A E
with electricity from heaven
G#
You remember how he told you
A E
that black holes were like Jesus
G#
And the crucifix was a battery
A E
that filled the air with fire
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