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Jun 20, 2012 at 2:38pm
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Edited: June 20, 2012 at 2:56pm
June 10 - Rails (late)
by A Non-Existent User
These are some lyrics for a song - chords at the end. Took about five times as long to transcribe as it did to write.

(Verse 1)
Roll up, roll up my reverie
Count up, count up to ten, to ten
Pull up, pull yourself up to me
Show me what I must suspend

(Chorus)
Wear your red dress or your apron
Dress up for a tropical clime
My baby? No sir, you are mistaken
She's my little waste of time

(Verse 2)
Come out, come out of the kitchen
Cut it loose, set it to drift further in space
My sinews stretch, my palms are itching
Now let's drink to the look on your face

(Chorus)
The glint in your eye has been tainted
Reddened and crusted with lime
Me and you on the kalamazoo
My little waste of time

The flies and the rails and the desert
Stretch out before as behind
Me and beautiful you on the kalamazoo
My little waste of time
Little waste of time

(Instrumental break to tune of verse & chorus, 32-ish bars)

(Verse 4)
India's looking in pity
Sharper than the knife in my side, my side
Old Jack Frost makes the sign of the cross
As he shuffles with his pencils inside

The room it is littered with portraits
Of shadows and echoes and charlatans dear
We melded then froze, then were shattered and scattered
With a few plastic bags the sole sign we were here

(Chorus)
The glint in your eye has been tainted
Reddened and crusted with lime
Me and you on the kalamazoo
My little waste of time

The flies and the rails and the desert
Stretch out before as behind
Me and beautiful you on the kalamazoo
My little waste of time
Little waste of time

(Repeat chorus if you feel like it, finish)

3/4 time, a bit of a swing to it, about 124bpm

Verse chords:
Amin, Gmaj, Fmaj, Emaj (bass notes on the down-beat)

Chorus:
Dmin (A), Cmaj (A), A♭maj (E), Amin

Chords are probably dead wrong knowing my musical theory chops, but they're the basic shell of it. Add a plodding, ponderous bassline and some plinky-plonky electric piano noises and you're pretty much there.
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June 10 - Rails (late) · 06-20-12 2:38pm
by A Non-Existent User

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