Joliet

A D C G A D C G VERSE: 0:24- 1:09 A D C "Joliet," she says, "is the darkest part of a man..." G It's angry and slick A D C into those letters writes through herself each time G that she thinks of him A D C Trips her way down south, into mystery's mouth G and he follows her there A D C It's what she doesn't say that makes you want to stay G and try to comfort her 1:10- 1:32 D C B I talked to the cousins of people who knew you D C B I asked them the questions they expected to hear, like D C B maybe a killing went down in your town A maybe it's the prison or the birth of barbed wire 1:33- 1:44 A D C G 1:45- 2:30 A D C "Joliet," she says, "is the darkest part of a man..." G It's shaped like liberty's bell A D C it's cracked and common law, stretched out over it's flaws G just like an ink-less well A D C The hanging judge in town records her comments down G she saves the crowd the truth A D C and deals with it herself, fills that hollow well, G with nothing left to prove 2:31- 2:53 D C B I talked to the mountains and streams that pushed through there D C B I talked to the trees that had no fruit to bear D C B to the colorless people that sat there beneath her A curled up and stared 2:54- 3:17 (SOLO) A D C G A D C G 3:18- 3:51 (SOLO & band) A D C G D C B D C B D C B A 3:52- end D C B I talked to the cousins of people who knew you D C B I asked them the questions they expected to hear, like D C B maybe a killing went down in your town A maybe it's the prison or the birth of barbed wire... Joliet