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Date: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 14:40:21 +0100
From: Benjamin Flynn
Subject: m/magnetic_fields/when_the_open_road_is_closing_in.crd
magnetic fields:charm of the highway strip
song copyrighted 1993 by Stephin Merritt
crd by Benjamin Flynn
cflynn@haverford.edu
when the open road is closing in
intro:
A ....2.3..2....2.3..2..
E 3...........3.........
repeat
G C G
time - measured in dotted yellow lines has past you by
G C G
and I never said an honest thing to you in all my life
D C
hard times go slowly
G D
and the good times never come
C G D
the world is a motor inn in a iowa highway slum
G D C
when the open road is closing in
Em D A
and you can't say where it ends and you begin
G D C B7
when every truck stop dive's another five years off your life
G D C
when the open road is closing in
Em D A
and the dotted yellow lines begin to spin
G D C B7
when the sky begins to fall on everything you like at all
Am D Am D G
you won't be coming home again
ciao you keep on drowning in the roads between the towns
now i have been closing all the shutters in the house
well i know you'll be back when every tree is turning brown
you'll find the house is empty and the swingset's fallen down
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Tab Discussion, Comments, and Critiques
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Drennan Professional Badass |
#1 by Drennan Bragg at Mar 28, 1973 at 3:30 PM EST |
| It just annoys me that hardly anybody comments or has ever heard of Magnetic fields while every bright eyes song has about a hundred comments next to it. Stephin Merritt has been writing incredible pop songs like this for 15 years. How old is Conor Oburst anyway 12 or something. Uuurgh! Its cos he looks like an emo diva thats the thing. This song is about being away from home and on the road for some reason or another. The way the melody moves up and down reminds me of car sickness a little. | |
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Niks Average |
#2 by Niks at Jul 3, 1974 at 6:40 PM EST |
| It just annoys me that hardly anybody comments or has ever heard of Magnetic fields while every bright eyes song has about a hundred comments next to it. Stephin Merritt has been writing incredible pop songs like this for 15 years. How old is Conor Oburst anyway 12 or something. Uuurgh! Its cos he looks like an emo diva thats the thing. This song is about being away from home and on the road for some reason or another. The way the melody moves up and down reminds me of car sickness a little. | |
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