Magnetic Fields - When The Open Road Is Closing In guitar tab

e: Tue, 28 Apr 1998 14:40:21 +0100

magnetic fields:charm of the highway strip

song copyrighted 1993 by Stephin Merritt

crd by Benjamin Flynn

cflynn@haverford.edu

when the open road is closing in

intro:

A ....2.3..2....2.3..2..

E 3...........3.........

repeat

G C G

time - measured in dotted yellow lines has past you by

G C G

and I never said an honest thing to you in all my life

D C

hard times go slowly

G D

and the good times never come

C G D

the world is a motor inn in a iowa highway slum

G D C

when the open road is closing in

Em D A

and you can't say where it ends and you begin

G D C B7

when every truck stop dive's another five years off your life

G D C

when the open road is closing in

Em D A

and the dotted yellow lines begin to spin

G D C B7

when the sky begins to fall on everything you like at all

Am D Am D G

you won't be coming home again

ciao you keep on drowning in the roads between the towns

now i have been closing all the shutters in the house

well i know you'll be back when every tree is turning brown

you'll find the house is empty and the swingset's fallen down