Intro: G Em C G
G Em C G
Walking around the happiest place in the world
G Em C G
All I really know is that your hair is still curled
Bm C G
South of Brownsville, Texas, South of Miami Beach
G Em C D
All it means to me is that you're further out of reach
Bm C
Every where is sand and sun, blue sky water too
G Em C D
I... need you
G Em C D (do this in between each verse)
G Em C G
Spanish moss is hanging and you find a polished stone
G Em C G
Pocket it for luck and then you walk on alone
G Em C G
They'll rent you a bicycle with the tires blown
G Em C D
They'll carve you up a blackened fish and strip it to the bone
Bm C
A slave ship just came in, I've been talking to the crew
G Em C D
I... need you
G Em C G
Well in that house Hemingway is boxing in the back
G Em C G
I go to the library and check out all the facts
G Em C G
Nowadays it's hard to write a line, my own thoughts bore me
G Em C D
I found me an island kid who says he'll do it for me
Bm C
I'm wiping all my tears away so no one has a clue
G Em C D
That I... need you
G Em C G
The last plane out of Saigon did not know that it was
G Em C G
Every man in prison thinks he's locked up for a cause
G Em C G
I need something to do , my violin needs to sound
G Em C G
I'm going to see if Ernest wants to go a couple rounds
Bm C
Sometimes you gotta get lost till you wind up someplace new
G Em C D
I... need you
A Asus A Am Am/G F
Some bird's flapping in the road on some crazy madman's string
A Asus A C D/F#
Something's messed up with his wing, something's messed up with my everything
G Em C G
So here's the truth at last, I tell you, Hemingway is dead
G Em C G
And everybody wants to find a steak that's slightly red
Bm C G
I thought I could escape myself by just not getting dressed
G Em C D
I thought I could escape you by coming to Key West
Bm G C
Sometimes you get lost and you don't find something new
G Em C D
I... need you
G Em C D
I... need you
G Em C D
I... need you
