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1979
Smashing Pumpkins
Riff:
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Intro: Riff x1
w/Riff:
A Emaj7 E
Shakedown
1979
A
Emaj7 E
Cool kids never have the time
A Bsus4
On a live wire right up off the street
B
You and I should meet
A Emaj7 E
Junebug skipping like a stone
A Emaj7
E
With the headlights pointed at the dawn
A Bsus4 B
We were sure we’d never see an end to it all
E
Emaj7 Amaj7
And I don’t even care to shake these zipper blues
E Emaj7
Amaj7
And we don’t know Just where our bones
will rest
E Emaj7 Amaj7
To dust I guess Forgotten and
Bsus4 B
absorbed into the earth below
Resume Riff:
A Emaj7 E
Double cross the vacant and the bored
A
Emaj7 E
They’re not sure just what we have in the store
A Bsus4 B
Morphine city slippin dues down to see
E Emaj7 Amaj7
That we don’t even care as restless as we are
E Emaj7
Amaj7
We feel the pull in the land of a thousand
E Emaj7 Amaj7
Guilts and poured cement, lamented and
B C#m A
Assured to the lights and towns below
B C#m A
Faster than the speed of sound
B C#m A
Faster than we thought we’d go,
F# B
beneath the sound of hope
Resume riff:
A Emaj7 E
Justine never knew the rules,
A Emaj7 E
Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls
A
Emaj7 E
No apologies ever need be made,
A Bsus4 B
I know you better than you fake it to see
Repeat First Chorus
Resume riff
A Emaj7 E
The street heats the urgency of now
A E (hold)
As you see there’s no one around
This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.
