Mesa, AZ Bad Books
INTRO:
e|-------------0------------| B|----------3-----3---------| G|-------5--------------0---| D|--2/4--------------4------| A|--------------------------| E|--------------------------|
CHORDS USED (SOME ARE UNCONVENTIONAL):
[G] [C/G] [G/F#] [Em] [A] [A7] [D]
E -3---0----3----0---------0----0--| B -0---1----0----0---------2----3--| G -0---0----0----0----0----0----0--| D -0---2----0----2----0----2----4--| A -x---3----x----2----4----0----5--| E -3---3----2----0----5------------|
VERSE:
[G]We passed 800 miles talking [C/G]circles about living with l[G]oss
[C/G]You said your sense of humor's always helped you get above & acro[G]ss
[G]Every hurdle, every chasm, every sho[C/G]cking & unspeakable blo[G]w
[C/G]Just proves the universe is chaos so you laugh to clear the lump from your
th[G]roat[G] [G/F#]
(PRETTY BIG EMPHASIS ON THIS G - G/F# - Em TRANSITION OF BASS NOTES)
[Em]But if you're fixed on being bit[A]ter
Go be bit[G]ter on your o[A7]wn
We're still two ho[C/G]urs from El Paso
Arizona[D]'s such a long way [G]to go
Then play this very slight variation of the INTRO (with a
quicker opening slide and one extra note toward the end):
e|-------------0---------------| B|----------3-----3------------| G|-------5-----------5-----0---| D|--2/4-----------------4------| A|-----------------------------| E|-----------------------------|
Then back to another VERSE:
The chemicals were coursing through our bloodstreams at incongruous rates
I was time-traveling inward through a past life I can never erase
You were hanging out the window, you said: 'We're just a beggar's banquet in space'
Then you were laughing at the moon and you were cursing it for wearing your face
Me & New Mexico are orphans
Or is it bastards? Either way:
I think I know a guy in Roswell
We'll hitch a moonride, steal you back your face
INTERLUDE: Repeat VERSE, and make sure you play that G - G/F# - Em transition into the next part,
You sleep and [Em]whistle 'Blackbird' [A]backwards
while my eyes [G]cut her name in cl[A7]ay.
You wake to Me[C/B]sa, Arizona
Say, 'Let it g[D]o. She'll change her mind som[G]eday.'
You took the wheel in [C/B]Mesa, Arizona.
Said, 'I got t[D]he rest, man.
You can drift awa[G]y.'
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I've heard Kevin plays it a half step down live if you want to try it, but the recording is definitely in
standard. Also, when he plays it he will occasionally throw in stuff like this on the G:
e|--3-------| B|--0-------| G|--0--2--0-| D|--0-------| A|--x-------| E|--3-------|
and even more occasionally follow that up with:
e|--------| B|--------| G|------0-|
D|--0h2---|
A|--------| E|--------|
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