Vesuvius

| C | C | C | C | F Em Dm C G Am F C G Trying to clip the creek to the bank with a clothes pin, Am G F G F F waterlogged system, rusty spring, faulty planning. C G F F Logic squeezed out like mustard at a corndog, C G F F hypertension is not wisdom, C G F F chewing the leather straps. | C | C | C | C | F Em Dm C G Am F C G Trying to hold the sun still with a bobby pin, Am G F F burned fingers, excellent conductor of heat. C G F F Private fantasies are not public policy, C G F F Christian charity is a doily over my death boner. C G F F Busy work is not the Great Wall of China, C G F F vanity bamboo hut out back behind the big house. C G F F F C Pretend is salve for whitey-boy guilt. | C | C | C | C | F Em Dm C G F F C Furiously slapping at the moon with a cane pole. | C | C | C | C | F Em Dm C G F F C G Trying to prop up the heavens with a fresh flat pencil, F F some folks are allergic to rubber. C G F F I am trying to stitch this one to all the rest of them C G F F but the seams will split, C G F F collide and cleave. C G F C G F F C Neopolitan ice cream is never truly integrated until it's too late. | C | C | C | C | F Em Dm C G F F C G Trying to stop the bleeding with scotch tape, F G F G Platelets spoil adhesion, fire up the cauterizing iron, F G F F it's a branding of necessity not scarification. C G F F Bliss was a pimple that I tried to pop, C G F F it erupted up and out on my countenance. C G F F Ugly eruption, Vesuvius, C G F F ugly eruption, Vesuvius. C G F F Ugly eruption, Vesuvius, C G F F Vesuvius at myself, F F C C C C Vesuvius at myself.