The Worm In The Apple

G A G D C G A G D C C G I'm gonna sit on a big fluffy cloud Em Looking down at the tops of the heads of the crowds A Moving round and around the dark center of town C With their eyes all searching for something that can't be found G I'm gonna laugh at the top of my lungs til Em I can't quite remember just what the joke was A But the laughter will fill up my body with love C Which is always what I've been told I'm supposed to want G C D C Oh, and I'm gonna fly on a plane to the sky G C D C Which my mind will devise using science that's being forgotten G C D C Cause I'm getting bored of the town of New York G C D C How the world's been transformed into a big apple and it's gotten so rotten G A G D C G A G D C C G While all the world makes money so stoically Em I will be building a home out of poetry A Scraps of old volumes, wire and glue C Will be something, though feeble, it's all I can do G In the back of the room my fingers will shake Em With the fury of someone with something to make A That will take him so far, far away from this place C That he'll never look back at all the worms and the snakes G C D C And they'll lick at my heels, but they aren't even real G C D C I will twirl and I'll wheel through the skyway, high over the steeple G C D C And I'll take you with me and we'll grow old and lovely G C D C We'll eat fine apples from the tree of knowledge of good and evil G A G D C You won't know about that G A G D C C G Burning with all of the things I must do Em To get free of the wasteland of wire and glue A I am wandering from cage to cage at the Bronx zoo C* And I'm renaming all of the animals G I can't just wait on my knees in the chapel Em To be bitten into like a worm in the apple A I'm digging for freedom, guitar for a shovel C I'm dirty.. my fingertips hurt me G C D C The kids of Atlantis, magazines 'neath the mattress G C D C With their names in the atlas of heartbreak are calling my name G C D C And I'm feeling baffled, the worm in the apple G C D C But the cold water tap will rain down upon me and nothing will be the same G A G D C It's all gonna be different now G A G I know D C*