(Intro) E E You are crouched before the fire F#m in a state park by the highway B and through the heavy pine trees A E ten-ton trucks go groaning by E Like the screams of your Aunt Barbara F#m who went crazy in the 70's B wrote poems to Jimmy Carter A E but forgot to feed her kids G# But it's the first time you're together A E since he got out of the hospital G# Raccoons in the darkness A B drag off your hotdog buns E But, you're happy just to lie there F#m in your plastic tent from Wal-Mart B like sticks and fallen dead leaves A E to feed the fire of the world EFBAE |---4------------------------4/2-----2--4-----2-------------| |-5------5--5/2------2--------------------------5---5---2-5-| |-----------------------4-----------------------------------| |-----------------------------------------------------------| |-----------------------------------------------------------| |-----------------------------------------------------------| E But which is more important, F#m to comfort an old woman B or see visions of the heavens A E in the stumps of fallen trees? G# Albert Einstein trembled A E when he saw that time was water, G# seeping through the rafters A B to put out this burning world EFBAE |---------------------------------------------------------------16-| |-------------------------------------------------------/17--------| |-13----------------------------------------13-13/14---------------| |-14---14----------16--16------------------------------------------| |---------14-14/16-------------16--16/18---------------------------| |------------------------------------------------------------------| E Next morning you're at Waffle House F#m Toast and eggs and hash browns B Truckers chain-smoke Camels A E over plastic cups of juice G# And you remember how he cried A E when they strapped him to the stretcher, G# convinced his arms were burning A E with electricity from heaven G# You remember how he told you A E that black holes were like Jesus G# And the crucifix was a battery A E that filled the air with fire E