Blue Rodeo - Outskirts guitar tab

"Outskirts" by Blue Rodeo

Written by Greg Keelor/ Jim Cuddy

From the album "Outskirts"

WEA Canada 1986

Transcribed by Kevin Ross (kjross@yahoo.com)

Intro: C

C F C

Here on the outskirts of life

F C

Dreams seldom come true

F G C C/B Am

Flipping through photographs emotional holographs

C F C

Cutouts of all the figures you might have been

C Dm Am F

Reflections of a life that you once lived

As the evening descends

You're conscious of every breath

Every moment is a crisis I guess

Staring out the window of your hotel room

You lit one too many fires underneath that spoon

Well I guess you deserve the chosen few

Real life just out of view

G F

Yea but that's just here on the outskirts

G F C

Yeah that's here on the outskirts of your life

GUITAR SOLO: Using chords from 2nd half of VERSE

There's a picture we've all seen

It was taken in the lobby of the L.A. Ambassador Hotel

It's the silhouette of a man in another's arms

So turn off your TVs and let that train go home

Cause everyone warned you that California

Wasn't going to be the end

No California wasn't gonna be the end

So tell me where can you hide when

The whole world is ugly and strange

Yes where can you turn when

This whole world knows your name

And these four walls are screaming

And all your friends were so deceiving

You forgot the lines to a part you rehearsed so well

Lying awake in the Brazilian Court Hotel

But that's just here on the outskirts

Yeah that's here on the outskirts of your life

OUT ON C