Counting Crows - Palisades Park Chords

CAPO 4

Intro - Piano & Horn
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 E        A               D                D        A        E 

A      E     (X2) 


 A       E
Somebody screamed and all of Jim Jeffries' dreams
                D
Explode into a black fist, he falls to the floor
A                    E
He stares up at the sky and he may wish he knew why
                  D
But you can't go back there no more

F#
Future sounds so crazy
           E 
We've all heard that song before
 F# 
Tomorrow's the name we change from yesterday to blame
                          E
When the train just don't stop here anymore


A     E
I got starry-eyed on the coaster ride
              D
Andy says, "man I need a break from the world outside"
         A  E
These days my life just careens through a pinball machine
                      D
I could do so much better but I can't get off the tilt

              F#
And there's a photograph on the TV
                E
Black and white and Andy says something to you
F#
Jack Johnson straddling Reno, Nevada like
              E
She says, "I forget myself sometimes too"
F#
Out past the doorways where we are sleeping

          B
Well, the white queens creep

And the Tom cats peep


Chorus
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    A
Now I'm not breaking,
    B
The train's just shaking,
  E                      A
I never made it here before,
A                                        B
There's a white mouse spinning the girls around,
         E                  A
'Til they can't take it anymore

           A
I used to dream in the dark 
   B
of Palisades park
E
Up over the cliffs and 
A
down among the sparks
A
It's a long life
B
Full of long nights
           E             B         A            
But it was not what I was waiting for
D              C#                           F#
Everybody's seen the horses diving down the shore
        C#                               F#
It's a miracle they don't make them anymore.


E
So make up ladies, wake up baby

A            E
You walked into the bar like some Saturday star
                  D
Stud-straight on spiked heels and needles and nerves,
A       E
You're a down town pride, fully amplified Clyde,
              D
Gin-tight and aging but well-preserved,

         F#
Remember Andy outside your bedroom window,
                        E
Saying "come on, let's drive across to the Palisades"
      F#
Keep going 'til we hit Reno, Nevada
                  E
I don't see Andy all that much these days,
                 F#
Still there are pages in back,

Of the action stacks

            B
Where, the white queens creep

And the Tom cats peep and...

         A
Now the trains not braking,
     B
The track's just shaking,
   E                     A
I never made it here before,
               A                     B
And there's a sky rocket turning the world around,
E                       A
'Til I can't take it anymore
A
You can carry that spark
     B 
from Palisades park
E                        A
Down over the cliffs and out into the dark
A
It's a long life
B
Full of long nights
           E             B        A
But it was not what I was looking for
D                  C#                        F#
Everybody dreams of horses flying round the shore
        C#                             F#
It's a bad dream we're not having anymore

E
Man,
          F#
Have you seen Andy?
     E
Hey man hey man!
                     F#
Have you seen him around?
     E
Hey man!
                                    F#           
Have you seen my my my my my my my Andy?
         E
Have you seen him? x 4 Hey!
                      F#
Have you seen Andy around?

E
Dressed up in our pirate best
     F#
All leathers and feather and pearls
          B
Andy said, "look at me man, I'm cooking these hands could
E
Finger up this whole world"
               B
He said, "come outside
Bsus2
Climb out your bedroom window
A                                E
Shimmy down the fire escape and say good-bye
B
Come outside"
                                     F#
Andy says, "I'm dressed up just like Edie
                                                         E
Changing all the time my leopard spots to polka dots and say good-bye
 B
Come outside 
                    F#
Well maybe we could move to California
      A                           E
Just meet me at the subway and say good-bye
 B
Come outside
                          F#
The cops all think we're crazy
                            A
If you stay you'll just get married
                                          E         
To a girl who'll never know you and then say good-bye

E
Hey man, have you seen Andy?
   F#
I lost her in the sun
      A
I was high as a kite on lovely and white
               E
Man, you could lose anyone
E
Hey hey man, have you seen Andy?
F#
I don't know where she's gone
A
But real love outlives teenage lust
                 E
We could get wet and it keeps us warm
B
Love is like angel dust

Lovely sometimes changes us
   E
...sometimes not

B
Have you bee aching to trust or just...?
F#
Have you been waking yourself with lust...?
A                                            F#
Have you been making us up or just taking us home?

E
It's a long wait
      A  E
At a long light
      A      E
Cars frozen in flight
A       E
All the traffic stops to stare
F#
At a crosswalk in Reno, Nevada
A
Wearing nothing but air
              F#
And a pair of grey paper wings
                          A
Andy thinks, "man, I have got nothing to wear"
F#
We got nothing new and
A
We got nothing to wear
A
We got nothing to wear
A              E
We got nothing to wear