Lake Geneva

	  		
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          E 
You are crouched before the fire  
      F#m 
in a state park by the highway  
       B 
and through the heavy pine trees  
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ten-ton trucks go groaning by 

            E 
Like the screams of your Aunt Barbara  
          F#m 
who went crazy in the 70's 
       B 
wrote poems to Jimmy Carter  
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but forgot to feed her kids 

              G# 
But it's the first time you're together  
          A              E 
since he got out of the hospital 
G# 
Raccoons in the darkness  
      A               B 
drag off your hotdog buns 

             E 
But, you're happy just to lie there  
         F#m 
in your plastic tent from Wal-Mart  
       B 
like sticks and fallen dead leaves  
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to feed the fire of the world
 
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But which is more important,  
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to comfort an old woman  
        B 
or see visions of the heavens  
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in the stumps of fallen trees? 

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Albert Einstein trembled  
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when he saw that time was water,  
G# 
seeping through the rafters  
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to put out this burning world 

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      E 
Next morning you're at Waffle House 
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Toast and eggs and hash browns 
  B 
Truckers chain-smoke Camels  
       A              E 
over plastic cups of juice 

          G# 
And you remember how he cried  
             A                   E 
when they strapped him to the stretcher,  
   G#  
convinced his arms were burning  
           A           E 
with electricity from heaven 
       G# 
You remember how he told you  
       A                    E 
that black holes were like Jesus 
          G# 
And the crucifix was a battery  
      A                   E 
that filled the air with fire 

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