Chords for Charlie Parr | "Last of the Better Days Ahead" | Western AF

_ I hope you're [B] riding crazy when you see me
I hope you're [Em] riding crazy when you see me
This song is called Last of the Better Days Ahead.
Isn't that a good title?
It's a great title.
I don't know where I came up with that.
It's the best title [E] I've ever come up with, though.
laughs
[G] _ _
[F] It's so good that the new [A] record is named after that song.
_ I was very proud of myself for that one.
[G] laughs
So thanks for noticing.
_ _ [Am] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ [Am] _
_ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ [F] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _
[Am] _ _ _ [Em] Well, money can't buy [F] back
That 64 Falcon
[Em] That you sold in your twenties
[Am] Then regretted it was gone
[G] Cause you thought it contained some meaning
[Am] Some answers to [C] a life
[G] That you'd never [F] bothered to question
[Am] _ Or [G] even take a good close look at
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[F] _ [D] _ _ [C] _ [G] And it broke your heart to see
[Am] How it had been so very important
[G] From the feeling of the steering [Am] wheel
To the rubber on the road
[G] But now it's grown to unrealistic [Am] proportions
[G] In your own [F] mind
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [F] _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] Well, now you're in your [F] fifties
[Am] Why can't you [G] forget
How the chrome bumper [F] shined [Am] in the sun
[G] And if you could just go [F] back
[Am] Even for a minute
You [G] could forget how you [F] [Am] don't even know
What [C] it was [D] that you lost
[F] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [F] _ _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ [G] Why you always feel [F] so empty
[Am] In spite of [C] all you have
[G] Were those feelings [F] you remember even [Am] real?
_ _ [G] Were they honestly [F] about some
[Am] Junkie [C] old falcon
[G] Or any other [F] thing
[C] That [G] you could own?
[F] _ _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _
_ [F] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ [G] Cause now it's all so [F] stale
And [Am] you feel so very [C] old
[G] Like you've taken all your [F] chances
And [Am] tossed them all aside
For [G] some stupid piece [F] of metal
Like [C] shiny bits of trash
[G] That lie in the [F] stolen [Am] nest
Of [C] a greedy [G] neighborhood crow
[F] So _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ _
_ [F] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [G] drive back to your [F] hometown
[Am] To visit with your [Em] [G] past
But nothing looks the [F] same [Am] anymore
_ [C] And [G] you can see all that you [F] [Am] squandered
Where you were shining all that [B] chrome
[G] You were handed all you [F] needed [Am] without cost
[C] _ [G] But you were too blind to see [F] it
[Am] And you took it all for [C] granted
[G] Now [Dm] you want to complain
_ [Am] Tell me [G] just what it was that you lost
[F] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ [F] _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _
_ [F] _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ [D] And now you start [F] to panic
[Am] And your gas is [C] running low
[G] And you need to find some [F] meaning
[Am] Before you're stranded on the road
And when [G] the engine finally [F] dies
Near a soybean [C] field at [G] dusk
You just sit and watch the sun [Am] set
[C] Turn the entire [G] sky to rust
_ [Am] _ [C] Turn the entire [G] sky to rust
[Am] _ _ [C] _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _