Tune guitar down half a step for entire album (Eflat, Aflat, Dflat, Gflat, Bflat, Eflat). The rest is on its way soon but right now I just do not have time. Homespun Intro: E Bm A E Faithless on the skids Bm A Being hung out to dry E Seen better days Bm A With the sunlight fading like a tabloid and I E I have found Bm A E All those double-barreled freedom fighters are in for themselves Bm A F#m And this call to arms has never been about anything else F#m A F#m Fire one more round F#m A F#m But hate is not a lone assailant F#m A F#m Hear the drummers pound F#m E Bm Listen to the homespun violent sound Hatred on the prowl Underneath a new guise, garb and gown And he's so persuasive when you look in his eyes All dumbfound All those double-talking politicians expose their intimate lives While the sheep are lowing for the shepherd to show He never arrives F#m A F#m Fire one more round F#m A F#m But hate is not a lone assailant F#m A F#m Hear the drummers pound F#m E Bm E Bm E Bm Bm Listen to the homespun violent sound D A E D I'll tell you how it pains to say this ugliness is ours D A G F#m But I would rather lay in bed and maybe even sleep all day and maybe sleep some more A E Some more Solo 1: E Bm A Suspicion is a powerful religion when it leads to force on these shores In the jungles of the midwest dwarf militia train for war Fight on course Unlike the famous fable revolution won't yeild a fireworks show Unlike the famous fable revolution won't end on July the fourth F#m A F#m Fire one more round F#m A F#m But hate is not a lone assailant F#m A F#m Hear the drummers pound F#m E Bm E Bm E Bm E D Listen to the homespun violent sound Solo 2: E Bm A.... A F#m The Bridge G ?? F# G Crossing the bridge where so many lean to see over the rail ?? F# G Bm D To glance at the trembling stream G ?? F# G Others stay to the center fearful it might sway ?? F# G And those who would chose to turn back the other way Bm Em B But you and me have our own bridge to cross Em B Weather worn and sea tossed Em We've our own bridge to cross C G D C B C B A Let's not make any excuses I came upon someone else's used and yellowed paperback A collection of dreams and their meanings all conveyed Seems to dream of a bridge denotes a thousand different things If the planks are secure or the rope or broke or frayed Interlude: G ?? C C# G Em Am(?) C But you and me have our own bridge to cross Weather worn, sea tossed We've our own bridge to cross Let's not make any excuses Arousing Thunder Intro: D Em G D Maybe the rain's holding off Em G D Surely it knows we're down here Em G D Walking 'round barefoot lost G Em A Pretty soon these clouds have got to break D[------------------2--4--5--] A[---0--2--4--5-------------] G D A I know it's a lot G D A G Arousing thunder I only ask it to stop G D A Bm F#m D For a second so I could coax you to talk Think when we first laid eyes Didn't know who you were and then I was one more passerby You were the girl in the entryway That's all that I knew But you were still in school and I was insecure G D A I know it's a lot G D A G Arousing thunder I only ask it to stop G D A Bm For a second so I could coax you to talk F#m A D About your dreams and orange soda, tea leaves, tea leaves, more... Looks like the rain's holding off Might as well take this slow You know sometimes when I hold you in silence I listen real close then I hear you talking to my soul Well I know it ain't half of the story I'm only meaning to ask Just what would it take to coax you to laugh Solo: Em G D Em G D Em G D G Em D What will it, what will it, what will it take you to laugh? G Em D What will it, what will it, what will it take you to laugh? G Em Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba G Em Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba G Em D Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba Even The Oxen Intro: C G D C Here is the one here is the one G D Here is the one mistake that cannot be made C G D There is a line that is crossed over once and only once let it be said C G D All of the hubris clenched in our fist won't punch our way out of here C G You know what I've told and I tell D But you won't let it pass into your ears Em G Even the oxen ramming their heads on wood rails Em A Come to know pain before the rusted barrier falls Before the radio Long before radio waves struck down to touch Off the wild flame that took all in its path And trampled the young underbrush Music shooed clouds away Billowing anxieties rolled over and out Seems like a lot of folks just gave up or got Except for the truly devout Who like the oxen ramming their heads on wood rails Came to be dizzy before the barrier fell Solo: F C G F C G (harmonica enters) Am C Am D Love is the one love is the one weapon That has not been brandished yet in this song It strikes fear in the pockets of bankers and generals Without it we can't carry on All of us knew this at one time from teething to toothless It's safe to say but useless perhaps to point out That we've lost our instincts and awe in this day And like the oxen ramming their heads on wood walls We'll come to know mercy before the barrier falls Outro: C G D Crackdown Intro: A Bm D A Bm D The music of a southern day and the nectar of brass A Bm D Spilling into congo square where the queens used to pass A Bm D There lies no better place for one left to drift A Bm D And there hides no greater lie and no bigger myth Bm D A And in the heat of crackdown all is slient Bm D A Just before the match is struck and the gas is poured Bm D A But in the heat of crackdown Bm D A All is silent underneath Gunned down in the drive A foreign exchange student from Japan whose fate, it was shortchanged You saw it all when it made the national news How the isolated incident occurred in baton rouge And in the heat of crackdown all is slient Just the match is struck and the gas is poured along roads But in the heat of crackdown All is silent underneath It's a crackdown on beliefs Bm G D G Everyone watching the event from the sky D G No bodies touching D G A Bm D Don't wish to prize into our own lives A Terrorism, terrify Bm D Tear the truth in two Seeks to paralyze Weaken, turn the screws But only cowards could create the ok bomb 'cause no bomb is ok when there can be no calm And in the heat of crackdown all is silent While the voice of power over roars Condemns the songs of innocence and finally it's a crackdown on beliefs Armchair You call me from your armchair With no will to be there The weight of your armored suit so immense Caught up in the turnstiles Even talk becomes battle Withdraw, your only defense I've held that emptiness I've held it and I've made the same wish at times To lunge headlong and out of reach So bleak or bare, I'll hold you through each Praying to the saints And now the candle is low Regret won't hasten their remedy Even when it's awkward In the dull loss of words Oh please don't hide your sorrow from me I've held that emptiness I've held it and I've made the same wish at times To lunge headlong and out of reach So bleak or bare, I'll hold you through each You call me from your armchair Everyone's been there once I'll be at your side when you're needing someone Bethlehem Steel Repeat E G D A E throughout There was a light blue as welder's torch It used to shine over the fiels And all the wise men,strong men were drawn for miles Followed a star to Bethlehem steel Our mother's father worked here in world war two On the main floor Operating the drill And in his open palms little splinters reminded him of the booming days of Bethlehem steel But the steeples on the hills they point to a better life beyond this one And that promise penetrates the clouds And mighty walls of bricks red cinnamon Take a walk past Lazarus Moving n' Storage Behind the Goodman's Furniture Store See the somke stacks rise On up to heaven's step While on earth we're burning this miracle iron ore But the steeples on the hills they point to a better life beyond this one And that promise penetrates the clouds Even when they block the fiery sun All That I Have I could lay down on green Swedish moss Wherever my bed roll could be tossed I could find sleep in the back of a cab I'm all that I have I've got a girl a waiting for me Just down the dock and over the sea Until I lay my head in her lap I'm all that I have Here the black toadstools, logs and green moss Are sealed from the city's violet exhaust Only the sound of the thunderclap I'm all the I have Two & Two You crawl up my vine And my soul's unwound Clouds are miles down As the song unwinds I'm conducting nothing Anything at all No, I know I know If I lose the floor I don't want no twist I want to bite through this 'til I can't hear no more All the talkin' dissin' doggin' Now I know I know I know It's not like two and two Never seems to add up like I want it to It's not like two and two Why can't I get this off Lazy spent and spun Off my chest for once Because I'm feeling lost It's a waste of ink and paper Laboring over anecdotes In the center ring welter-weight tongue-tied He was petrified Before the song was sung He fell back against the rope And dared to do the rope-a-dope It's not like two and two Never seems to add up like I want it to It's not like two and two It goes on and on and on and on I'm tired of saying I don't get it anymore I don't care to hear you tell it Tell me I can't tell you anything Why the face the frown Now and why so blue It's not like two and two When you're feeling down It's a thing we both know So we can't just explain away It's not like two and two Better For Us Soon we'll count the rings inside All one by one Wondering if I could point to the place Where we first slept 'neath its branches Oh, leaves once rose like an ocean we swam When we were boys this one was all things A mansion, a fortress And as we matured, it was shade For the secrets that we passed along But this oak has grown old Wither-wrung It threatens to fall Better for us if the axe splits the trunk they say On your tip toes A ten-penny nail Jutting high in the bark Relics of tree houses built and torn down Places we hid after dark Oh please, please lend some belief to this hard wasted ground Where little green soldiers and Indians fought This is the burial mound of my youth and my innocence This oak has grown old Wither-wrung It threatens to fall Better for us if the axe splits the trunk Better for us Better for us Hyperion And Sunset Gift of the sage Chaparral Bron to this bone-dry heat In summer when roads turn to caramel The earth quakes and everyone leaves Where have they gone? Far from Hyperion and Sunset Boulevard Where have they gone? North up to Oregon and Mt. Saint Helens Ha ha ha Left behind dishes and furniture Took only blankets to sleep Sprinkled their pillows with lavender Safe from the grasp of the enemy Where have they gone? Far from Hyperion and Sunset Boulevard Where have they gone? North up to Oregon and Mt. Saint Helens Thrown from the nest of Los Angeles Naive and motherless each Dear friends farwell Write down the e-mail for me We're out of town 'til these aftershocks let up most definitely Where have you gone? Far from Hyperion and Sunset Boulevard Word is you've gone With room for company Thrown from the nest of Los Angeles Naive and motherless me Comes To Blows Whittled me down 'til I was kindling for the fire 'cause I might have found out for myself in awhile 'round and 'round it goes Soon it comes to blows School house crushed the kid Snuffed his will to flower But now that the answer has been offered oh so eloquently Pummelled you hard 'til you began to settle in By the end of the day Even they took you as one of them 'round and 'round it goes One day it comes to blows In the streets below the high rise It's a ghetto Now that the answer has been offered oh so eloquently Speaker of the house I'll never be as powerful as you As I've only known the humble work that which these hands can do But soon it comes to blows In this moment fragile Unearthing wade and roe While in the inner city It's a battle Oh creation myth and gun control Are all up for grabs and on the mantel It hit s a little too close to home for most I can't trun it around but I can turn the channel Think I'll just drift away slowly Think I'll just drift away The Only Way Down You've come this far Followed earth and star Not to reach the peak would seem so wrong Your eyes look tired Want to sleep Although this climb is so steep we must keep pressing on Down It's the only way down It's the only way down Down It's the only way down It's the only way I've heard you sing with quiet voice of adverse things Now you've made the choice to overcome This mountain spire towering Below the summit Comering you've seen how others clung Down It's the only way down It's the only way down Down It's the only way down It's the only way You've come this far Along this wind Around this bend Look at where you are