[Intro]
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N.C.
You know when you're doing a song about a small town
N.C. F
You gotta start it with a cliche, you know what I'm sayin' like
[Verse]
C
Time moves a little slower here
G Am
The paint peels 'cause the summers here are so severe
F C
And we're nowhere near no where you would know of
G Am
Locals here pride, they show up just to show off
F C
Four men take a load off, just to watch the day go by
G Am
Philosophizing with their friends like they're Plato
F C
They prophecize on the bench by the main road, right
G Am
They got advice; I'm like 'Ayo, if you say so guys'
F C
But what do they know, Fox News got 'em lit
G Am
They're shockers, fundamentalists, the new communists
F C
A girl with a shopping list, clutch her handbag close
G Am
I'm like "damn man" then it's all backhands, jokes
F C
'Cause I'm a gentlemen, but then again most of are
G Am
First name basis in the bank, the post-office, the bar
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The grocery, parks, hey lady I ain't tryna grab your pension
Am
The old men on the bench hum
[Instrumental]
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[Tom Thum]
N.C.
"Direct from the transistor radio in your lounge room.It's the entertainment that the whole family can enjoy."
N.C.
"Well I say looking slick will do the trick so try Barry's Brylcreem cream today!"
[Chorus]
Am
Well lets go
F C
We're living in the days when everybody sayin'
G Am
"What a time to be alive"
F C
But I'm feeling out of place like I live in outer space
G Am
'Cause it seems I'm stuck in time
F C
It's like we ride through life
G Am
Right in the shadow of the cold war
F C
It gets so quiet at night
G Am F
Like martial law took a hold of '55.
[Verse]
C
Time moves a little slower here
G Am
A day feels like a week, a weekend feels like it could go a year
F C
And we're nowhere near nothing, man it's so true
G Am
I don't tell 'em where I'm from, I tell 'em where I'm close to
F C G
And I can go through an Atlas and show you on a map but
Am F
You'd still look me sideways and treat me like I'm backwards
C
But that's just fine, it so happens I'm
G Am
Happy living in a city that is trapped in time
F C
While you're lined up in traffic I'm
G Am
Not panicked 'bout transit, I'm back in time
F C
For a TV dinner and an early night
G Am
'Cause we get dressed to travel, got an early flight
F C
Been doing laps of the earth while doing laps of the sun
G Am
Tryna put where I'm at on the map 'cause where I'm from
F C
Would never get a mention, but all that and then some
G Am
Once again the old men on the bench hum
[Instrumental]
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[Tom Thum]
N.C.
"And across the country they came in waves. Thousands upon thousands of flying discs
N.C.
descending from the planet Mars."
N.C.
"For the closest shave try a Wilson's razor today."
[Chorus]
Am
Well lets go
F C
We're living in the days when everybody sayin'
G Am
"What a time to be alive"
F C
But I'm feeling out of place like I live in outer space
G Am
'Cause it seems I'm stuck in time
F C
It's like we ride through life
G Am
Right in the shadow of the cold war
F C
It gets so quiet at night
G Am F
Like martial law took a hold of '55.
[Montaigne]
F C
Where I go, where I go
G Am
This will always be home, no matter
F C
Where I go, where I go
G Am
This will always be home, no matter
F C
Where I go, where I go
G Am
This will always be home, no matter
F C
Where I go, where I go
G Am
This will always be home
[Instrumental]
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[Tom Thum:]
N.C.
"If you can't beat the summer heat then what you need is a Wordell's. Wordell
N.C.
Refrigerators: the cooler choice."
N.C.
"The dieting revolution taking the world by storm."
[Montaigne & Suffa]
Am
Well lets go
F C
We're living in the days when everybody sayin'
G Am
"What a time to be alive"
F C
But I'm feeling out of place like I live in outer space
G Am
'Cause it seems I'm stuck in time
F C
It's like we ride through life
G Am
Right in the shadow of the cold war
F C
It gets so quiet at night
G Am F
Like martial law took a hold of '55.
