1979 - The Smashing Pumpkins

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Intro
[drums, then]
        
        

Verse
            
Shakedown 1979

      
             
Cool kids neve

             
r have the tim

      
e
             
On a live wire

              
 right up off 

    
the street
            
You and I shou

            
ld meet
             
Junebug skippi

             
ng like a ston

     
e
             
With the headl

              
ights pointed 

               
at the dawn
             
We were sure w

              
e'd never see 

            
an end to it a


ll

Chorus (second guitar plays verse muted i think)
             
And I don't ev

            
en care to sha

              
ke these zippe

  
r blues
             
And we don't k


now
              
Just where our

            
 bones will re

st
          
To dust I gues

s
              D                 Am      B(goes into verse)
Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below

Verse
    
             
Double cross t

              
he vacant and 

            
the bored
             
They're not su

              
re just what w

          
e have in stor

e
            
Morphine city 

             
slippin' dues 

        
down to see

Chorus/Bridge (second guitar plays verse muted through chorus, ends at %)
             
That we don't 

            
even care as r

              
estless as we 


are
            
We feel the pu

              
ll in the land

              
 of a thousand

 
 guilts
           Am                    %D
And poured cement, lamented and assured
              
To the lights 

    
and towns belo

w
             
Faster than th

        
e speed of sou

nd
             
Faster than we

 
 thought we'd 

go
D           Am       B(goes into verse
Beneath the sound of hope

Verse
     
             
Justine never 

             
knew the rules

    
,
             
Hung down with

              
 the freaks an

             
d the ghouls
             
No apologies e

             
ver need be ma

      
de
             
I know you bet

             
ter than you f

          
ake it to see

Chorus (second guitar same as before)
             
That we don't 

            
even care to s

              
hake these zip

    
per 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
    
             
The street hea

              
ts the urgency

           
 of now
C                         D(single downstroke)
As you see there's no one around
[drum outro]

thats it

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