New Mexico Chords

G6sus4: 3x2013   (it's mostly just a hammer-on from G)
 
|= measure bar line
 
Played on a clean electric
 
[Intro]
|C           |              |                |               |
 
[Verse 1]
         C
From the heart-wrenched sweet nothings
   C
Between two distant lovers
       C                       F        Fmaj9
To the dying of the cruelty of war
        F               Fmaj9
Oh, the sad news and the love songs
    C
Are passed along these phone poles
                 G
That stretch forever
         G7                  C
Like the lines of a Hemingway story
         G
And they stretch along this highway
    G
Like so many martyrs
F                Fmaj9
Hung and burned for loving
         F                Fmaj9
Shedding light on Caesar’s gardens
            C                              G      G6sus4  G  G6sus4
And they’re passing on a message sent from you
                      C
To us here in New Mexico
 
[Instrumental 1]
|C           |             |G     G7    |F    Fmaj9   |C       |          |
 
[Verse 2]
         C
Well the old man at the red light
     C
Was selling homeless papers
        C                                  F     Fmaj9
And our windows locked the awkward silence in
   F              Fmaj9
We kept our eyes ahead
             C
And then we quickly changed the subject
        G                 G7
And our hearts broke even more
             C
With our own hardness
        G
Because Mark had asked
                    G
If we should invite him along for dinner
       F
And we hemmed and hawed
 Fmaj9               F            Fmaj9
‘Til green faded into our Scarlet Letter
      C                                 G      G6sus4    G      G6sus4
And I know no martyrs died to pass that on
                     C
To us here in New Mexico
 
[Instrumental 2]
|C          |            |G     G7     |F    Fmaj9    |
|G    G7    |F    Fmaj9  |G     G7     |F    Fmaj9    |
|C          |            |             |              |
 
[Verse 3]
         C
Well the night is raining from the clouds
     C
That hang above this city
    C                         F      Fmaj9
And all I want is just to be alone
  F                  Fmaj9
Unless that girl I’m praying for
   C
Is here in Albuquerque
  G                G7
Unless you came to raise
              C
The quick and dead
           G
Then we’ll step out of this river
       G
Of the Father, Ghost, and Son
            F            Fmaj9
Where we’ve waded in your innocence
      F              Fmaj9
Cause all of ours was gone
          C
And we’ll lift our eyes to see
            G         G6sus4 G  G6sus4
A new light dawn
                       C
On the beauty of New Mexico
 
[Instrumental 2]
|C          |            |G     G7     |F    Fmaj9    |
|G    G7    |F    Fmaj9  |G     G7     |F    Fmaj9    |
|C          |            |             |              |
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