Ten Second News
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#Subject: TAB: Ten Second News by Son Volt
#Date: Thu, 25 Jul 96 17:35:52 -0500
#From: Jim
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#Ten Second News
#by Son Volt
#Transcribed by John Erlinger (tardis@tetranet.net)
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#Music and words by Jay Farrar (Warner-Tamerlane Pub./Grain Elevator Songs)
#>From the Warner Bros. album "Trace" (9 46010-2)
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#The lyrics to this song may make better sense to someone who lives in the
#Midwest or Missouri. The "beach there known for cancer" on Highway 70
#is the infamous Times Beach, which was deserted due to dioxin poisoning.
#And of course the "cough in the water" is the Great Flood of 1993.
#Farrar uses the metaphor of natural disasters to paint a picture
#of Midwestern life. . .
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D Am7
When you find what matters is what you feel,
C D
It arrives and it disappears.
D Am7
Drivin' down 70-44 highway,
C D
There's a beach there known for cancer waiting to happen.
D Am7
When you're out across the county line,
C D
The news travels slower than a ten-second buzz.
Em G F
But only you'll ever know,
Em G F
As day by day disappears.
Em F D ACD
Only you'll ever know.
And it's hard enough soakin' up billboard signs,
They scorch and drown alive, never knowing why.
The levee gates are open wide,
There's a cough in the water and it's runnin' into town.
Bright eyes don't change, stay the same,
There must be an answer for what keeps it going wrong.
Em G F
But only you'll ever know,
Em G F
As day by day disappears.
Em F G F
Only you'll ever know, only you'll ever know,
Em G F
As day by day disappears,
Em F D ACD
Only you ever know.
DACD
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