Philadelphia

(início)

A
two hours north of the nation's capital,
          E
i took a break from what would be my final days
                                      Bm
in a prison of my own making to see a friend who had said,
                       D
"hey come on over," a favorite band,
        E
and an ex-lover's ex-lover.
     A
and ryan said that he liked my company,
         E
so i didn't leave that night
and stuck around for his birthday.
    Bm
we rode out to the tops of the oil cans,
     D                     E
to a pool in the woods and i jumped in...
A -> E -> D -> F
             A
perpetually lost and so
i made my way across the zip codes,
E
sold tapes to the smaller distros,
learned cliches of the drifter's ethos.
Bm
learned addiction to new faces:
D                          E
the pros and cons of being place-less.
                      A
and my friends seemed stuck.
but i didn't know what to say,
     E
so i addressed the chorus
and asked each voice individually.
                   Bm
they all said "i'm doing this for my parents,
i wish i had other choices.
         D
it's not really what i want,
            E
but i can't stand to be a disapointment."
A -> E -> D -> F
      A#
and i wanted to say how at the end of the day
            F
you're just accountable to your memories.
           Cm                             F
and if you can't lament what might have been...
Cm                          F
you'll never be a disapointment.
      A#
but i couldn't find the words somehow,
wrote down the names of the college towns,
and waved out the window
                              F      D#   F  D#
as the dots on the map passed by.
    B
and ryan said that he liked my company,
             F#
and though i know i never told him,
well it really meant a lot to me,
      C#m
and i said i'd make a point to always stop on by.
      E                        F#
and i know that i don't, but i think about it every time
         B        F#           E     G
that the greyhound glides past philadelphia.
             B          F#        E    G
and then the greyhound cries for philadelphia.