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Another Travellin Song Tab

by Bright Eyes


*CAPO 2*

Intro - A

Verse 1:


well I’m changing all my strings
                                    
I’m gonna write another travellin song
   
about all the billion highways
                                
and the cities at the break of dawn 
                 
well I guess the best that I can do now
                                   
is pretend that I’ve done nothing wrong
 
and dream about a train that’s gonna
                       
take me back where I belong 

Verse 2:


now the ocean speaks and spits 
                               
and I can hear it from the interstate 
                       
and I’m screaming at my brother
                            
on the cell phone, he is far away 

and I’m sayin’ nothing in the past
                               
or future ever will feel like today 
            
until we’re parkin in an alley,
                           
just hopin that our shit is safe
 
Chorus 1:

                         
so I go back and forth forever
                            
all my thoughts, they come in pairs
                                                       
well I will I won’t I doubt I don’t I’m not surprised
                      
But I never feel quite prepared 

Verse 3:

        
Now I’m hunched over a typewriter
                                                           
I guess you’d call that paintin’ in a cave
              
And there’s a word I can’t remember
                             
and a feeling I can not escape 
           
And now my ashtray’s overflowin
                                   
I’m still starin at a clean white page
 
And morning’s at my window 
                             
and she is sending me to bed again

Verse 4:

 
Well I dreamed the dark on the horizon,
                                      
I dreamed a desert where the dead lay down
             
I dreamed a prostitute, a child
                                   
touching an old man in a fast food crowd
          
Oh Yeah I dreamt a ship was sinkin’, 
                                
there was people screamin’ all around 
      
And I awoke to my alarm clock,
                                 
it was a pop song, it was playin’ loud

Chorus 2:
 
                           
So I will find my fears and face them
                      
Or I will cower like a dog 
                                             
I will kick and scream or kneel and plead I will fight like hell 
                       
to hide that I’ve given up