1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins

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The Smashing Pumpkins - 1979
Tuning:      eb

[Chords Used]
  021100
      022100
      x02220
   242252
     244322
      x24442
  x02120
    x46654


[Intro]
                

[Verse 1]
             
  Shakedown ni

             
neteen seven n

   
ine,
             
  Cool kids ne

             
ver have the t

   
ime.
             
On a live wire

              
 right up off 

     
the street
             
You and I shou

      
ld meet.

[Verse 2]
             
  Junebug skip

            
ping like a st

   
one
             
  With headlig

              
hts pointed at

        
 the dawn.

  We were sure

 we'd never se

e
         
An end to it a

ll.

[Chorus 1]
           
And I don't ev

      
en  care to sh

              
ake these zipp

   
er blues,
        
And we don't k

          
now just where

              
 our bones wil

  
l rest
     
To dust I gues


s
              
Forgotten and 

          
absorbed into 

           
the earth belo

   
w.

          

[Verse 3]
             
  Double cross

              
 the vacant an

         
d the bored,
             
  They're not 

              
sure just what

            
 we have in st

   
ore.
             
  Morphine cit

            
y slippin' due

          
s down to see:

[Chorus 2]
             
That we don't 

    
even  care as 

              
restless as we

 
 are,
       
We feel the pu

           
ll in the land

              
 of a thousand

 
 guilts.
        
And poured cem


ent,
              
Lamented and a

 
ssured.

[Bridge]
              
To the lights 

         
and towns belo

w,
             
Faster than th

        
e speed of sou

nd,
             
Faster than we

           
 thought we'd 

         
go beneath the

         
 sound of hope

   
.

[Verse 4]
             
  Justine neve

           
r knew the rul

   
es,
             
  Hung down wi

              
th the freaks 

       
and ghouls.
             
No a-pologies 

             
ever need be m

   
ade,
             
  I know you b

              
etter than you

        
 fake it to se

e:

[Chorus 3]
             
That we don't 

    
even  care to 

              
shake these zi

     
pper blues,
        
And we don't k

          
now just where

              
 our bones wil

  
l rest
     
To dust I gues


s,
              
Forgotten and 

           
absorbed into 

           
the earth belo

   
w.

[Outro]
             
  The street h

              
eats the urgen

         
cy of now.
             
  As you see t

              
here's no one 

 
around.