From the excellent album "Sno' Angel Like You"
I play these as barre chords (except A and E7)
TO get the feel of the song you need to play around with little fills, slides, pull offs
such like but this is the basic structure
Intro
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Em (7Fret) - D (5Fret)
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Verse
things could have been better
they sure could not have gotten much worse
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when there are tears out in the alley
and laughter waiting
out front in the hearse
and there's remark about contender
repulsa aint too hard too find
conclusion based on surrender
and the general dismissal of the merit of mankind
the snakes and the sawtooths
they lay loving the buck
spending all their time
setting up camp and
running amuck
[chorus]
liiiiiiight is not the neon filler
not the memory of sun filled days by solar spark
light is the moses
splitting the waves
in a sea so dark
[[[[[[[Repeat the same structure for the last two verses!]]]]]]]
There's a town in the high desert
where doctor gene scott says the demons run
alongside a chunk of heaven hovering there
where the wind in the image of the throne rides shotgun
riddles of the wonderment, wonders of the firmament
and me laid up, laid off and laying low
[chorus]
things could have been better
they sure could not have gotten any worse
tears out in the alleyway
and laughter waiting out front in the hearse
[chorus]