Song:1979
Tuning: Eb
 
     
     
 

[Verse 1]

    
Shakedown 1979

,
 
    
cool kids neve

r have the tim

e
 
           
on a live wire

            
 right up off 

     
the street, yo

u and I should

 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
 

[Hook 1]

           
and I don't ev

             
en care to sha

              
ke these zippe

 
r blues
 
            
and we don't k

              
now just where

            
 our bones wil

      
l rest to dust

 I guess
 
           
forgotten and 

      
absorbed into 

the earth belo

w
 
    


[Verse 2]

     
double cross t

              
he vacant and 

                          
the bored
 
    
they're not su

re just what w

e have in stor

e
 
          
morpine city s


lippin dues do

wn to see
 

[Hook 2]

            
that we don't 

            
even care as r

           
estless as we 

are
 
            
we feel the pu

              
ll in the land

    
 of a thousand

 guilts
 
            
and poured cem

     
ent, 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, beneath th

            
e sound of hop

      
e
 

[Verse 3]

    
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 that we

            
 don't even ca

              
re to shake th

          
ese zipper blu

es
 

[Hook 3]

            
and we don't k

              
now just where

            
 our bones wil

       
l rest, to dus

t I guess
 
         
forgotten and 

         
absorbed into 

  
earth below
 

[Outro]

    
the street hea

ts the urgency

 of sound
 

as you can see

 there's no on

e around