Grant Lee Phillips
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Tune guitar down one step to play along: D A F C G D.

4. RACING AWAY

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Comments:
1. Piano chords:
         Bass     Chord
Em         E      g  -  b  -  e
G/D        D      g  -  b  -  d
Em6/C#     C#     g  -  b  -  c# -  e
Cmaj7      C      g  -  b  -  e
B+         B      f##-  b  -  d#  (f## = g)
2. Guitar chords:
Em(2)  G/D    Em6/C#  Cmaj7  B+
e[0]   e[3]   e[0]    e[0]   e[x]
b[8]   b[3]   b[2]    b[0]   b[0]
g[9]   g[4]   g[0]    g[0]   g[0]
d[9]   d[0]   d[2]    d[2]   d[1]
a[7]   b[0]   a[4]    a[3]   a[2]
e[7]   e[x]   e[0]    e[x]   e[x]
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Intro:

Figure 1: x4 (also sounds through Part 1, Part 2)

e[----------------------------------------------------]
b[------5---------------------------------------------]
g[-----------2---3--3----2---3--3----2---3--3----2----]
d[----------------------------------------------------]
a[---2------------------------------------------------]
e[----------------------------------------------------]
[Kurt Vonnegut: TV is enough... is providing artificial friends
and relatives to lonely people. What, what it is, is uh,
recurrent families; the same friends and relatives come back,
week after week, after week, after week. And they're wittier,
and they're better looking, and they're

Em(2) G/D Em6/C# Cmaj7
much more interesting, and they're richer
than your real friends and relatives.]

Part 1:

Em(2)
      Where is the love from birth
G/D
    Where it’s gone
Em6/C#
       Where is the love for humanity
Cmaj7
Where it’s gone

Em(2)
      The love for the children
G/D
    Respect for the elders
Em6/C#
       Where it’s gone
Cmaj7
      Where it’s gone

Em(2)
I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know
G/D
I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know
Em6/C#
       When will they get it right
Cmaj7
      And live in the light

Trumpet solo:

          Em(2)  G/D            Em6/C#   Cmaj7
e[--------------------------------------------------]
b[----------------------------------------------0---]
g[---3--5--------------4--2--0--2-------------------]
d[----------4---------------------------------------]
a[--------------------------------------------------]
e[--------------------------------------------------]
                    Ooh ooh ooh

Em(2)
Raised in the city
G/D
Praise for the nightfall
Em6/C#
Rain wash my memory
Cmaj7
Damp-clad my great wall
Em(2)
Peace don't desert me
G/D
Not in the forest
Em6/C#
Grace where I trespass
Cmaj7
Calling my goddess

Part 3:

Solo: (Figure 1: x9 (played on the bass))

d[------2-------------------------------------------]
a[-----------0---2--2----0---2--2---0---2--2----0---]
e[---0----------------------------------------------]

N.C. (Figure 1: x9 (played on the bass))
Peace is not real

It is not now what you seize

Off Andy

Part 4:

Em(2)
      Where is the love from birth
G/D
    Where it’s gone
Em6/C#
       Where is the love for humanity
Cmaj7
      Where it’s gone

Em                                B+
I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know tell me
Em                                B+
I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know tell me
Em                                B+
I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know I wanna know

Part 1:

Em(2)
Dream my grandfather
G/D
Dream of great quiet
Em6/C#
Barely a flash between
Cmaj7
Words and blue silence
Em(2)
Gentle this hour
G/D
Wet is the highway
Em6/C#
Brave are these cowards
Cmaj7                        Em
Racing racing racing racing away
B+                              Em
   Racing racing racing racing away
B+         Em  B+
   Racing away

Ending:

Em   B+    Em  B+ Em
Peace   is not    real