Dolls Of Highland

G E G E A C G G E Well you sleep in late but she’s up and out the window G E Said nothing’s gonna carry you to get where the wind blows A C G Sometimes, she wakes up in the middle of the night cries acid rain A C G She tried, to ride to fence of falling in love and going insane A C G Well you got to watch her spin around from the eye of a hurricane C G Oh, she took you, you were terrified C G You're locked in man, your hands were tied C She leaned in just to crush your heart G A C A She plays it cool till the music starts then she’s wild C A She goes wild C D Ahoooo G E G E A C G G E Her mother was a demon but her daddy was the devil G E She fed scraps to a six-headed hound at the table A C G Then you charmed and I was blown away the skin in the skies of a mortal man A C G And darling I, I know I can’t take the fire but I can take your hand F Then she burned you C G And whispered: Come back when my daddy’s gone C G We’ll kiss down in the catacombs C You knew then that you had to go G A C A Her kiss was sweet her curse was cold and you tried C A Yeah you tried C D And you still try G E G E A C G F (2x) C G Oh, she took you, you were terrified C G You're locked in man, you’re in her sights C She leaned in when the music stopped G A C A She hit the street when the curtain dropped, you went wild C A You went wild C D G Ahoooo 2. Balmorhea G C/G G C F/C C G D C G Balmorhea, well, what say you? G D C D Will you meet me there when I come passing through? Em D C G And if you find reason to hide, you know where you can come. G D C G That is, if I'm not the one you're still hiding from. G D C G But I pawned my faith there and I couldn't buy it back, G D C D When you said your life there on the stage was all an act. Em D C G Where the world saw you as a phoenix on the wind with wings of fire, G D C Oh, it's plain to me, you'll always be a sparrow, Cm G Singing softly on the wire. C Cm G Whoa-oh, a sparrow singing softly on the wire. G D C G Now the boys talk over and the girls chatter loud G D C D And your precious dirge upon the stage was so drowned out. Em D C G But I realized it's not the song or the stage that made you shine; G D C It's the way you speak, your soft mystique, and one day I, Cm G For a season, tried to make you mine. C Cm G One day I, for a season, tried to make you mine. G C/G C F/C 3. Berlin C G C G A B C F C Eb D G A B C F C Berlin, Berlin, she shines like a mirror ball Eb D G A hot day, protege G A B C F C she puts her highest heels back on Eb D Each dance could be the death of me C G C And I know she needs her money G F C And you know she digs her cat call G D You know they'll be coming N.C To watch her put it on and take it off G A B C F C Berlin, Berlin, the star of the dark burlesque show Eb D G She lives for its madness G A B C F C She swings herself around the pole slow Eb D C She slips out of a prom dress C G C And all the ladies wanna be her G F C And all the grown men wanna cry G D But then I only wanna kiss you C Just once maybe twice D Then I could show you around C That is, if you'd wanna come D and I could play it cool C if I wasn't playin' it dumb G C But Berlin she ain't the kind of woman G C To have one boy she calls A C She feeds from the touch of one lover Eb D G C G But can't resist the touch of them all G C G C Oh Berlin baby, I know I'd never be the kind you'd like A C I'll toss myself back into the corner Eb D G C G And I'll catch you every Sunday night C G A B C F C Eb D G A B C F C Dollar bills, red lipstick on a cigarette butt Eb D G And trash-talk on her tongue G A B C F C I tried making eyes but guess what Eb D C That man came on his microphone C G C He said "you're in for a real treat" G F C And just like that she left my side G D She took the stage instead of taking me C And worked it all the live-long night D And I could show you the town C If I knew where to begin D And I could show you out C If I wasn't on my way in G C But Berlin she ain't the kind of woman G C To have one boy she calls A C She feeds from the touch of one lover Eb D G C G But can't resist the touch of them all G C G C Well, Berlin, baby, I know I'd never be the kind you'd like A C I'll toss myself back into the corner Eb D G C G And I'll catch you every Sunday night 4. Lady of the Ark E E B Lady of the Ark I think I found a part, F# E I think I found a piece of what you used to be. E B Dozing in the back of a funeral car F# E and tangled in the blankets of your memory. E B E So why, why did I waste you? B A E If I'd have felt that love come to fall B F# E I couldn't save you, plunging to the earth as sweet as cannonball E B E Oh why why did I know you? B A E How did I know you would go in the end? B Fell out of the sky, you told me, F# E "Baby I'll be gone but when I'm back again, we'll try" E B F# E Try-yy-yy x 3 E B Lady of the ark I think you were the start F# E I think you were the key with which his heart was closed. E B Not his only secret, not his only weakness, F# E I found him at the party feeling through her clothes. E B E And he cried, cried, "I'm wasted" B A E And he couldn't look you straight in the mouth B F# E But all that time he'd taken, even though he didn't watch the words come out E B E Oh why why did you leave me? B A E Why didn't you think it would rip me apart? E B F# E And we were always bleeding, inward toward the spirit when the soul departs the mind E B F# E Mi-ii-ii-nd x 3 E B C#m E C#m E C#m E F# B B7 E B E And I could see your face now B A E Tripping sick with your ear to the wall B E Em You can't find the way down, my lady, my lady E 'til you fall. E B F# E Fa-aa-aa-ll x 3 B E B Well, strange prodigal woman, she can't see it comin', F# E Bats her eyes at everybody one by one. E B And though she's movin' faster, still he's blowin' past her F# E Naked with his eye toward the morning sun. E B E But you're wild, wild, I've seen it B A E And he left you sick when you loved him the most. B F# E So now you're done and defeated, torn between the devil and the holy ghost. E B E Swing low, low, sweet heathen, B A E Swing for the rich and the rock 'n roll kids E B Who roam this Earth repeating F# E All this sin until this wicked world makes sense in time. E B F# E Ti-ii-ii-me x 3 B 5. Gloom Girl riff over A A C#m D A A C#m D A D A C#m D A Well the gloom girl sank her teeth into the backbone of the night A C#m D A Yeah she passed to me the sweetest tea, the Colorado kind D A D A And her breath filled up the back room where the lonesome man was lost D A E They've sat and tried a thousand times to make her clothes come off D A A7 Oh but this time the walls twisted and I found myself entwined D E With the gloom girl, true, she sang her blues in the depths of our sweet high D A A7 Said I need a friend, I need a fix and I need to know it's you B D A But I feel like leavin' every season, every changing of the moon. D Oh, gloom girl, deadly delicate Drag hard just for the hell of it A I know but I don't D Feel right when you come around Lips sealed, eyes glued to solid ground A I know, it's a sad show D A But I'll try next time she sees me D A To drink her venom dry D A And I'll always make it easy B D For the ones like her to leave me far behind B D Oh, the ones like her to leave you far behind A C#m D A A C#m D A D A C#m D A Now some artist paints a portrait of her flower girl back East. A C#m D A Well, she talks in tongues, she bides her time and waits for that one beast D A D A Of her love to track her footsteps, 'cross the world and through the dark D A E D To taste your scream, to hear your blood, to rip you all apart D A A7 But out here on the West Coast where the boats pass through all day D E There's a bus stop girl, her hair it curls and it falls into her face D A A7 And the wind it blew her black dress and her eyes they blew my mind B D A7 But just like you, her bus rolled through and it had no name, it had no time. D Oh, gloom girl, deadly delicate Split town just for the hell of it A I know but I don't D See your digits anymore Spin coins across the kitchen floor A I know it's a sad show D A But I'll try next time I see you D A To tame my wicked tooth D A And I'll always make it easy B D For the ones like her that never see you through B D 6. Trinidad Beach (Before I Ride) D Dmaj7 D7 G Gm (x 2) D Dmaj7 I'm sorry for the way it went down D7 G I know it was the talk of the town Gm D So before I ride, let me apologize G A7 For anything and everything now D Dmaj7 For all the nights I left you in a dream D7 G Wrapped up by yourself in those dirty sheets Gm D And I couldn't touch you, no I couldn't tell you G A7 Why it ended there at Trinidad Beach G Well the days were made nights Gm The cut was made clean G Gm So before I ride, my apologies 7. Future Midcity Massacre D A7 D Well I tried, my girl, to put you in a song Bm A tune to weep for when you're back G But every time the notes fall flat. E Your face is made, your bags are packed G D You were leaving before you were even gone D Spent lost years in the ring, we're fighting love Bm Now everything that came before G My wicked plea and your dreams of war E They hit me quick, they made me sore G D A G They taught me swinging hard is not enough D So meet up with your girls in New Orleans Bm G Tie your corset, paint your eyes and run wild through the Bourbon night E It always takes me by surprise G D D7 How effortless your good time seems to be G Gm D D7 And I'll send you on your way without a kiss G Gm E Well, I never gave you all that much to miss G But, hell, what a time G D A G Now you're free babe and so am I D So move on with the mirror in your mind Bm Watch your style and your step G And when there's no reflection left E You'll find you've become someone else G D A stranger to yourself and all mankind D And she said this rum it just don't burn me going down Bm Not like it did when we were young G It felt like fire across our tongues E Just like love, that all went numb G D D7 And the sweetest feelings found their own way out G Gm D D7 So you send me on my way with cheap red wine, G Gm E A bouquet of dead flowers and a thirst for twisted nights, G But, f**k, what a time! G D B And you're beautiful but you ain't mine G Gm You're free babe, so very free babe D B G Gm D And so am I, yeah so am I, yeah so am I 8. Black Mary D C Bm C D C Bm C (x 2) G D D7 G D Black Mary bless your heart Em Born at the end of an age G When the punk girls fake all their grit A And they love in the very same way D But you were their jack knife queen Em Ransacked and agonized G By the virgin boys and their rabid swing A They scratch at your door in the dead of night A7 Foaming at the mouth screaming take a sight Em Or just leave A But she can't turn down a nice little kiss from a fool like me Em She's a thief A She stole every white flag, wet-dream wandering eye A7 The boys fail to keep her every time they try D C Bm C D C Bm C (x 2) G D D7 G D Black Mary what's it like Em To dive in deep with the dead G To curse the fools and their whiskey jive A To join in on what you resent D The church says you've gone insane Em The nurse says you've gotta get out G But you're stuck inside where you pray for rain A You watch at your window at a heavy cloud A7 But nothing ever falls in your lovesick drought Em So it seems A But she can't turn down a nice little kiss from a fool like him Em She's a thief A She stole every white flag, wet-dream wandering eye A7 The boys fail to keep her every time they try Em (wandering eyes, wandering eyes) A She stole every white flag, wet-dream wandering eye Em (wandering eyes, wandering eyes) A She takes what she gets when she leaves what she finds Em (wandering eyes, wandering eyes) A She stole every white flag, wet-dream wandering eye A7 The boys fail to keep her every time they try D G D G D G But it's you that I hate to leave D G Oh you know that I'll fall apart D Bm A G Oh it's through you I learned to love the brightest side of the dark 9. Pentecost C F C C E Pentecost put you in a headlock E Am I know we never really turned out right Am D7 But good God, I'd love to see them try C E To break down the drugs, the bad dreams E Am Run 'round and sum it up into one prayer Am D7 Reach out but nothing's ever there, there F C So tell me what you've gotta do E F Tell me why why why why why F C Would you push the bullet through E F Through your mah mah mah mah mind F C Tell me what they sold to you E Am D7 At the altar, you were altered into white C E Dear Todd, lay her in your bedroom E Am Cold sweat, run your fingers through her hair Am D7 Black out, see if the clergy cares C E To turn down the sacred station E Am I know the voices always seem so strange Am D7 They freak out but nothing seems to change, change F C So tell me what you've gotta do E F Tell me why why why why why F C Would you push the bullet through E F Through your mah mah mah mah mind F C Tell me what they sold to you E Am D7 At the altar, you were altered by the light Am And it was as dark as the demon in your mind guitar solo C E Dear Todd, Dear Todd E Am Bb Oh don’t fake it I know that you’re not F What you used to be D7 But you’re as gold as the Odyssey C E Dear ghost, dear ghoul E Am Bb Let me take all that weight off of you F D7 We can go downtown, take the one in the chamber out F D7 We can go downtown, take the one in the chamber out F D7 Yeah, we can go downtown F D7 We can go downtown, take the one in the chamber out 10. Dolls of Highland A F#m A F#m We used to dance, we used to do it all night F#m D You and me and the dolls of Highland D A They'd crank that radio loud A F#m The jester choked on his jokes in the spotlight F#m D The poet burned all of last year's pages D A And we watched the bottom fall out E D A7 But oh I've never set sight on a siren so bright A D On a songbird so deranged E D And she said you must be new to the Shreveport city blues E D A She said these days, her nights were getting strange 11. Jane Beat the Reaper A E E A Well stranger things are happening here E I see the ghosts now in broad daylight Eb D And while the midnight boys continue their songs A E The reaper rolls his eyes E A Without a shadow of a doubt, E He says this party is a pale view Eb D Of what time slowly did to them A A7 and what I'm gonna do to you. D E But Jane beat that reaper with a broomstick hard A D Ran that bag of bones across the whole front yard A D A And she screams, no one takes a party from me D A no one takes a party from me D E F#m B no one takes a party from Jane D E A E no one takes a party from Jane E A She wore medallions on a string E She said they warded off the boredom Eb D Of life alone and the constant sting E Of what she was before him. E A But stranger things have happened here E She disappeared with every daybreak Eb D Her clockwork crisis never seemed so clear A A7 Her strung-out strife never seemed so fake D E But Jane dropped those trinkets in the ole Grand Isle, A D And they sank with all her misery, her vacant smile. A D A Still she pleads, who can take this hurt out of me D A who can take this hurt out of me D E F#m B But nothing takes the urge out of Jane D E A A7 Oh nothing takes the hurt out of Jane C#m D And her fate, she knows, is to wait so close F E D at the gates of Hell until the day he calls F E so she spends her time pacing Purgatory D that's all, yeah that is all D E Well she traded all her riches in for dime store rags A D Her mama tried her best to fill those shopping bags A D A Still she screams, please don't waste your money on me D A please don't waste your money on me D E F#m B 'Cause nobody could buy love from Jane D E F#m B She'll party in her rags all the same D E D A Well no one takes the party from Jane 12. Three Candles A D A D Bm F#m D A A D A D Take it away, I can't stand to see Bm F#m D A You holding him the way you held me A D A D It was bound to taste right, it was bound to be brief Bm F#m D A And as for me babe I guess I'm bound to leave A D A D Fall to the floor, your stain on my jeans Bm F#m D A And three hundred miles between me and Orleans A D A D I'll think of you babe, I give you my word Bm F#m D A I'll think of you babe while I'm kissing her A D A D A D 'Cause Leanne cut ties and Jay Bird split town Bm F#m D A And Allie says I shouldn't be hanging 'round A D A D So what's there to hope and who's there to please Bm F#m D A And what's there to love on long nights like these Bm F#m D A Aw who's there to love on dead long nights like these A D A D Bm F#m D A A D A D A warm shot of rye, straight to the head Bm F#m D A And three candles lit at the Royal Frenchmen A D A D It's hard to recall just what I said wrong Bm F#m D A It's hard to recall why you wanted me gone A D A D A D So are you passing out? Or are you leaning in? Bm F#m D A That wasted farewell, I'm too drunk to pretend A D A D That you gave him your hand, you sweet southern belle Bm F#m D A But all that you had to give me was hell Bm F#m D A But all that you had to give me was hell A D A D Bm F#m D A A D A D So take it away, I can't stand to see Bm F#m D A You kissing him the way you kissed me A D A D He's bound to taste right, he's bound to make sense Bm F#m D A But he'll never kiss you the way that I did Bm F#m D A No he'll never kiss you the way that I did