Richmond Fontaine - Calm

Capo IV


................G........Em.........D
can't calm down

.........G...........Em........D
it's been years

............C
in Nevada

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casinos don't hold me like they once did

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and barely my girlfriend

........................................G........Em........D
with her quiet laugh and strong will

.......................C
it seems like all the bars

............................................D
must be dark and the music must be cold(?)


G........G/F#..............Em..........C
I'm not trying to push anything down

G.........G/F#.......Em.............C
I'm just trying to calm down

.....G...........G/F#..............Em.........C
and I'm not trying to knock anyone down


it's the uncertainty of time
claustrophobic air
surround myself in pills
that wouldn't really be me at all
so sometimes late at night
I will walk around
for a moment I'll have certainty
for a little time I will feel good

..........................Em.......G
but then I'll feel it go

....................Em..............G
and I'll blame everyone

D
that I know

but I'm not trying to put anyone down
I'm just trying to calm down
and I'm not trying to knock anyone around
I'm just trying to calm down

D

.............C............D
it's been years

..................C
and it's been years

and I'm not trying to knock anyone down
I'm just trying to calm down
and I'm not trying to put anyone down
I'm just trying to calm down

Richmond Fontaine - Give Me Time

C..........G........................C
pass the houselines and the

F...........................C
apartment buildings

G...............C
casino lights

C...............................F.............................C
when I'm looking out thirteen miles outside

........G....................C
don't stop unless you

F........C
have to

.....G................C...F
and keep the line straight

F
and


C
give me boilermakers

F.........C
give me boilermakers

G.........C
give me boilermakers

G.........F
give me time

F.............................................C
this night's so crippled, clouded by you

disappear into the
slender of your back
as we near the industrial line
only twenty miles out
can't wait to get back to
the safeline
where the bright lights never flicker
they just blind

give me boilermakers
give me boilermakers
give me boilermakers
give me time
this night's so crippled, clouded by you

no insurance policy
or license to guard me
it don't matter now
cause were inside the city lines
still I disappear into the
calmness of your voice
and I'm held in your pale light hands
soon the dim lights
will grow bright
and they'll drown me in them

give me boilermakers
give me boilermakers
give me boilermakers
give me time
this night's so crippled, clouded by you

Richmond Fontaine - Settle

Capo II (Safety)
Capo I (Obliteration By Time)

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G................Em
deliverance from

D......................C
obliteration by time

G..............Em
I couldn't gauge

D...........C
any day now
been lost under neon
can't seem to find my way out
but that everything that sinks
finally settles on some sort of ground

G......................C...G
town and country

C.................G
town and country

...G/F#...................Em
is where you'll find me lately

.........................................G
I've been for some time

only sound made
is out of regression
I try to block it out
but it comes from within now
I pass the college grounds
and their well lit halls
that bridge is too far
fuck filling out student loans

all the streets are dark
and their empty now
the burning hands of the daylight sun
haven't touched me in so long
been lost under neon
don't even want to find my way out
because everything that sinks
finally finds its way down

town and country
town and country
it doesn't matter to me
cause I always stay inside


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Richmond Fontaine - Winner's Casino

G.............Em
Drop me off

C.......................................G................Em
you can leave me there alone

....G.........................Em...............D
in Winnemucca

G..........Em....C...................G
I don't need anyone else around

Em.......................G..................................Em.............D
and I don't need to know anyone from town

C..................................G...................D
just put my heart in Gasoline

C........................................G................D
and some money in my pocket

Em...............C........................G
leave me at Winner's Casino

Em...............G.....................Em..............D
and let me disappear for awhile

Cause I just need some time to drop below that
line 'cause
it seems like the only place I know
where nothing's in decline 'cause
there's nothing to do but rise
And all I ask is for a little money and some time
and maybe
if I come back I'll be sane for a while

It doesn't have to be that town
I've just always liked it there
at least if I lose myself
it'll be in a place that felt clear
And all I ask is for a little money and some time
and maybe I'll be sane for a while

Richmond Fontaine - Water Wars

Intro: Am Am7 Am Am7

Am...................Em
My roommate was sleeping

F...........G
I took his keys and a hundred bucks

Am........Em...................G
headed out till his car broke down outside of Tuscon

Am..........Em
went on a bender

F.........G
I ended up in the can

Am......Em.........G
no use calling anyone, they gave up on me years ago


F.............C
the west is sprawling

G................Am
from the northwest central valley

F...............C
way I lived in Las Vegas

G................Am
and I made my way through the sunbelt state

F.............C......Am.......G....................F
the west is falling, its falling just as hard as I am


got a job in a warehouse in L.A.
growing faster now grows(?)
I was loading boxes
that no on needs and I can't afford
once again I give up on me before I even begin

the west is falling
the water wars have just begun
and the west is falling
the strip malls and planed estates
and the west is falling
its falling just as fast as I am

I ended up in the back of a truck
with a guy that had two black eyes
he was drunk and laughing at an indian casino
maybe they'll finally get their revenge
he took a drink and he laughed again

the west is sprawling
from the northwest central valley
way I lived in Las Vegas
and I made my way through the sunbelt state
and the west is falling
the water wars have just begun
wait until the aquifers are done
and the west is falling
west is falling
west is falling

Richmond Fontaine - Through

C....................G
You walked with a limp

C........................G
and I was worried about that

Bb..................Am
but it turned out alright

.......G....................F
turned out that you were ok

and they pulled the car up
they helped you to the ground
never met anyone like you
who wasn't always so fucked up, blue


..........C
and I know

......../B............Am
well I know that I can't

G..............F
feel that way too

..Em...........Dm
I won't get so bleak

....G.................C
and I won't feel so blue

......./B..............Am
and I know that I can't

G................F
feel that way too

Em.........................Dm
I'd rather know what its like

G..............F............G
to feel so through


..........F
I feel so through

G
I just got to figure out how not to

Am..G..F


C......................G
can't you just come down

C.......................G
can't you just come down

Am.....G..........F
can't you just come

.......................G
can't you just come down


the three of us left
I was trailing behind
with it all set up like that
I thought I'd never see you again

you can find me in the corner or in the back
under any sort of red light
I can make it outside
you know I can make it there alright

and I know
well I know that I can't
feel that way too
I won't get so bleak
and I won't feel so blue
and I know that I can't
feel that way too
I'd rather know what its like
to feel so through

I feel so through
I just got to figure out how not to

can't you just come down
can't you just come down
can't you just come
can't you just come down
come down

Richmond Fontaine - Westward Ho

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The Sandman and Riverhouse, The Horseshoe and the Ho-hum

Em...............................F#m.....Em......................F#m

Just romantic visions of 4 walls, TV, sink and tub

The 777 & Ox-bow and down the street is the Westward Ho
As a kid all I wanted was to disappear inside
Disappear inside to

The Rancho and Sutro, The Time Zone and don't forget
The Everybody's Inn or The Monte Carlo

Motel life ain't much a life and motel ain't much of a home
But I found out years ago, that a house ain't either

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Richmond Fontaine - Barely Losing

D.............................G
Three day vacation

Em.........................C
Three days away


D
The Turf Club race book

G
and I'm barely losing

Em
while you're sitting next to me laughing

C
and I'm barely losing

Souvenirs we are buying
T-shirts and snowglobes
we're gettin' our pictures taken
underneath the sign

Lounge bands we are watching
while playing video poker
and 46 oz. margaritas
we are drinking

We're having dinner at the Santa Fe
we're walking underneath the lights
we're staying on the seventh floor
of The Fitzgerald

And we're walking along the railroad tracks
five in the morning
wishing we could always be like this
that we'd never have to go back

The Turf Club race book
and I'm barely losing
while you're sitting next to me laughing
and I'm barely losing

Richmond Fontaine - Capsized

C G F C

C............................G....................F.............C
I broke your back so I'll break mine twice the same

C........................G........................F.......................C
ended up in some back room where no one knew my name

..F.................G...............Am............F
i drifted and i drifted and ended up in spokane

F...................G....................Am.................F
in a one room place above a bar called the grand

i never called my parents i called my brother drunk too many times
until he finally wouldnt answer his phone
worried and uncertain i ran myself down
ended up selling most of my things

i drifted and i drifted and ended up in wyoming
i so broke i sold my car

i broke your back so i'll break mine fifty times the same
hope your holding up alright you forgot my name

walo wala(?) to stockton, from yuma to bullhead(?) city
i get by alright

i will cut every tie that gets close to me
ill pay for my mistakes ill pay for them youll see

the only back ill break is mine a hundred ways and a hundred times
for all the nights i was drunk and left you drunk and capsized, capsized