Scene By Scene

Intro: 
E  A (2x) 

 
       E                                
On the river by the trestle, where the kids all came to play 
    A 
You watched the end of innocence slipping away 
    E                                 
And laid down in the dying grass and did what people do 
       C#m                            A 
But it meant a little less than you expected it to 

E  
 

 
     E                                  
On a bed of summer kisses, you watched reruns on TV 
A 
Carrie and her friends all having sex in NYC 
         E                            
You were losing your religion, a reflection of the screen 
  C#m                A 
A college education, scene by scene 
    E                                
And upstairs in the living room was music playing low 
C#m                            A 
Something called "For Emma, Forever Ago" 
       E                                
And it sounded so familiar, though you didn't know the tune 
   C#m                              A 
It felt like it was written just for you, yeah 

E  A 
 

 
         E                               
Now your father's at the table and he's telling you to leave 
       A 
And it won't be too much longer 'cause you both have the disease 
        E                                
There's something in the water, there's poison in the well 
          C#m                           A 
There are secrets in the emptiness that time will only tell 
        E                                       
And you thought it would be different but it's pretty much the same 
C#m                              A 
Call it what you want, a rose by any other name 
            E                         
It's just a color with no context, a crime without a clue 
  C#m                        A 
A chem trail disappearing out into the blue 

E  A 
 

 
        E                           
Now the days all run together like ink out of a pen 
         A 
And it's harder to remember how it felt back then 
     E                              
When everything was everything and nothing was enough 
           C#m                        A 
You didn't know it was a game, so you never tried to bluff 
     E                              
When someone said "I love you" you took it to the face 
C#m                             A 
Damned the consequences with an idiot faith 
    E                             
And praying that the means would justify the ends 
             C#m              A 
And we would be as we'd always been 
    C#m                  E 
But nothing was the same again