Chords for Leo and The Prophets - The Parking Meter (1967)

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
As _ I look through my foothold, _ _ generations [C#] pass me by.
_ _ _ _ [B] I stand [A#]
anchored to [G#m] the ground, _ [B] unable to [G#] move [G#m] against [F#] the sky. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Mechanical machinery _ _ _ _ possessing [C#] nutty soul. _ _ _ _
[B] The element of [G#m] time _ will [B] not [A#] make me grow [G#m] _ _
[F#] old. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Time is ticking by me, someone wants to buy [D#] me.
I'm a coin eater, I'm a parking meter.
[C#] Someone is conspiring, I must be [B] expiring.
Don't take [D#] me away. _ _
[F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ I wish that I could warn them, _ the ones that don't [C#] stand. _
_ _ _ On [B] their windshield, [A#]
they will [G#] find a [G#m] notice.
_ [B] _ [C] Autographed by [G#m] the lady [F#] dressed in [Bm] blue.
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Time is ticking by me, someone wants to buy me.
[D#] I'm a coin eater, I'm a parking meter.
[C#] Someone is conspiring, I must be expiring.
[B] _ Don't take [D#] me away.
_ [F#] _ _ [B] _
_ [F#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ _
As I return to my world of [F#] solitude, _ a world of darkest [C#] black. _ _ _ _
_ [B] I sit in [A#] my lonely [G#] corner, [B] _ until someone _ comes [G#m] and _ calls [F#] me back. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _