Smashing Pumpkins, 1979 tis 100% correct
Tuning:Down one semitone
Chords Used:
Emaj7 021100
E 022100
A x02220
F#m7 242252
B x24442
Amaj7 x02120
F# 244322
C#m x46654
Verse 1:
A Emaj7 E
Shakedown nineteen seven nine,
A Emaj7 E
Cool kids never have the time.
A F#m7
On a live wire right up off the street
B
You and I should meet.
Verse 2:
A Emaj7 E
Junebug skipping like a stone
A Emaj7 E
With headlights pointed at the dawn.
A
We were sure we'd never see
F#m7 B
An end to it all.
Chorus 1:
E Emaj7 Amaj7 E
And I don't even care to shake these zipper blues,
Emaj7 Amaj7 E
And we don't know just where our bones will rest
Emaj7 Amaj7
To dust I guess
F#m7 B E
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below.
Verse 3:
A Emaj7 E
Double cross the vacant and the bored,
A Emaj7 E
They're not sure just what we have in store.
A F#m7 A
Morphine city slippin' dues down to see:
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Chorus 2:
E Emaj7 Amaj7 E
That we don't even care as restless as we are,
Emaj7 Amaj7 E
We feel the pull in the land of a tousand guilts.
Emaj7 Amaj7
And poured cement,
B
Lamented and assured.
Bridge:
C#m A
To the lights and town below,
B C#m B
Faster than the speed of sound,
B C#m A F#m7 B
Faster than we thought we'd go beneath the sound of hope.
Verse 4:
A Emaj7 E
Justine never knew the rules,
A Emaj7 E
Hung down with the freaks and ghouls.
A Emaj7 E
No apologies ever need be made,
E F#m7 B
I know better than you fake it to see:
Chorus 3:
E Emaj7 Amaj7 E
That we don't even care to shake these zipper blues,
Emaj7 Amaj7 E
And we don't know just where out bones will rest
Emaj7 Amaj7
To dust I guess,
F#m B Emaj7 E
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below.
Coda:
A Emaj7 E
The street heats the urgency of now.
A E
As you see there's no-one around.
