Transcription by: Scott Millington <s.millington@lancaster.ac.uk>
Capo 3
All chords written here are capoed chords!
intro: C C
C
Perhaps I am a miscreation
C
Am
No one knows the truth there is no future here
C
And you're the DJ speaks to my insomnia
Am
And laughs at all I have to fear
Am
Laughs at all I have to fear
F
G
You always play the madmen poets
F
G
Vinyl vision grungy bands
F
G
You never know who's still awake
F
G
You never know who understands and
Am
Are you out there, can you hear this?
F
G
Jimmy Olson, Johnny Memphis,
Am
F G
I was out here listening all the time
Am
And though the static walls surround me
F
G
You were out there and you found me
Am
F G
I was out here listening all the time
Last night we drank in parking lots
And why do we drink? I guess we do it cause
And when I turned your station on
You sounded more familiar than that party was
You more familiar than that party
It's the first time I stayed up all night
It's getting light I hear the birds
I'm driving home on empty streets
I think I put my shirt on backwards
Are you out there, can you hear this
Jimmy Olson , Johnny Memphis
I was out here listening all the time
And though the static walls surround me
You were out there and you found me
I was out here listening all the time
Am
And what's the future, who will choose it?
F G
Politics of love and music
Am
Underdogs who turn the tables
F
G
Indie versus major labels
Am
There's so much to see through
F
G
Like our parents do more drugs than we do
Am F G
Oh....
Corporate parents, corporate towns
I know every TV set that has them lit
They preach that I should save the world
They pray that I won't do a better job of it
Pray that I won't do a better job
So tonight I turned your station on just so I'd be understood
Instead another voice said I was just too late
And just no good....
Bm
Calling Olson, Calling Memphis
G
A
I am calling, can you hear this?
Bm
G A
I was out here listening all the time
Bm
And I will write this down
G
A
and then I will not be alone again yeah
Bm
I was out here listening
G A
Oh yeah I was out here listening
Bm
G Em A (A7) D
Oh yeah I am out here listening all the time
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