Chords for Black Out on White Night- Sage Francis

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[G#m] _ [D#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [C#] _
[G#m] It was too good to last, he thought.
Might as well have been a dream, he thought.
[F#m] Lights are out, bones are dead, [E] and I'm the only thing that's running in this city.
Except [A] for the clouds, and then [G#] it comes down, and on my way around I wouldn't feel so dizzy.
[F#m] Where's Telly?
Nobody can tell me.
I [E] don't speak a lick of that language and got a slippery memory.
[C#m] Spelled it all out on my arm, only it.
But I did it, so I think, get a grip, kid, deal [F#m] with it.
Baby's waiting for a ring, won't settle [E] for the substitute excuse that's forming.
[A] I got a complicated case of escapism.
For [C#] her, I try to rewire my nature, too tired to wake [F#m] her up.
Out of that artificial calm she was [E] on, a drug-induced future that slipped out of her palms.
[G#] Seductive rain dancer, [C#m] she thinks I'm waterproof.
Like Superman, doesn't need a roof over his head.
[F#m] When I come home to Bruce, I need truth to hold him dead.
[E] But I'm seeking salvation in a booth.
[A] Bones are dead, and the lights are out, [C#m] and I'm the only thing that's living in this ghost town.
Except [F#m] for the clouds, and then [E] they're coming down.
For whom I'm way around, by now I've rebound for [A] home.
Blackout on White Night in Rome.
White Night in Rome.
[F#m] _ _ Gravy, [E] suspiring. _ _ _
[D] Pianti e _ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
[F#m] _ senza stare.
[E] _ _ _ _
[D] Perciò al cominciare [C#] nell'argo di mare.
[F#] I know that I'm in love, but I know [C#] I'm out of touch.
And I know that I get dumb when I can sense something's up, [Bm] and then I bottom out.
European tailspin, [C#m] scrawling messages out on my pale skin, in hopes [C#] they get mailed in.
Before the ink poisoning takes effect, and it gets smudged, cause I budge before letting paint set.
[Bm] I get judged by the ones who have shelter and rain checks, [C#m] while I trudge through the
mud, cause it's pouring through rain's [F#m] wet.
Regain consciousness and lose common sense.
[E] The ominous dark skies that lie between me and [D] Providence are signs.
The obvious answer isn't standing [C#] on your face with stilettos on, if you brought the question [F#m] wrong.
Every song for post-afterthought, I [E] won't grab the chalk to outline my body at work.
Quote [C#m] tags get caught in my teeth, cause my foot is in my mouth.
And the spurs are in my words, so my tongue can't [F#m] dismount.
Even after Arbor Core had fully run its [E] course, couldn't figure out the most heroic time to
jump on [D] the horse, and place this old hat for the last time in the coat [C#] rack.
But I donate all of my earnings from this race just to know [F#m] that, resisting urges to
go back and get it later, [E] like the milk would unsour itself in the [G#] refrigerator.
A wet boy in a dry, dry state, on an old country road where tradition has a blind [F#m] date.
I make it dance on its own grave tonight, [E] with the change of direction by the pale moonlight.
[A] And if it needs theme [C#m] music, I'll break out the bagpipes, and play a tune you ghostwrote
me in a past life that [F#m] goes like_
Where is the [E] spirit? _ _ _
[D] Beyond the earthy [C#] wires, black out and white night will come.
Where is the spirit? _ _
[F#] Beyond the earthy [C#] wires, black out and white night will come.
Where is _ [B] _ _ _ _
the spirit?
_ _ [C#m] Black out and white night will [C#] come. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [C#m] Black out and white night will [F#] come.
Where is the spirit?
_ _ [E] _ _ _
[A] Beyond the _ _ earthy wires, black out and white night will come.
I'm [F#] _ _ _ _ [G#m] just spitting poetry to the rain, [A] and it sounds dramatic, but it is.
It worked, [C#] because [G#] it is.
_ [F#] Fucking word release, [A] finally,