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Mesa Arizona Tab

by Jeffrey Foucault


Mesa, Arizona


Album: Ghost Repeater


All C chords played with the pinky on the high E string, third fret.

 Chord:                    

e-----3--------|
B-----1--------|
G-----0--------|
D-----0--------|      
A-----2--------|
E-----X--------|

Intro:                        

                         
All alone in a Mexican joint
            
In Mesa, Arizona
                     
With a mariachi band
               
On the jukebox
               
And an empty Corona
                     
And the sun gone down
                     
In the pale thin pink
                         
There’s no one to talk to

All I can think
         
Is your eyes are full of train smoke
         
And your mouth tastes like rain
      
And I know when I know nothing
       
I will always know your name
                       
You’re my one and only one
                       
You’re my only one 

Out here working
In the neon lights
Where the temperature is falling
It’s hotel coffee
Red-eye flights and Honey
I’m your midnight ringer calling
And the snow comes down
From this desert sky
And I tell everybody something
But it’s usually good-bye
But not you you’re my one
You’re my only one 

     
Only one I want to talk to
     
Only one I know to call
     
Only one who’s going to catch me
         
When my pride leads to a fall
           
You’re the sky all full of starlings
                              
And an ax blade shining in the sun
           
You’re the angel touched a coal
           
Against my lips
               
You’re my only one 

Reel to reel
The country rolls
And the towns slide by
Like ghost repeaters
Of faded billboards & big-box stores
Like a movie of an empty theater
You look around and wonder
When the seams are going to fail
And how dear the cost of living
Where everything’s for sale
Except you you’re my one
You’re my only one 

And I’m all alone
In a Mexican joint
In Mesa, Arizona