If The Brakeman Turns My Way

            G                             C                G
When panic grips your body and your heart is a hummingbird
      G                                               C           D
Raven thoughts blacken your mind until you're breathing in reverse
      Em                     D             G       D        C
All your friends and sedatives mean well but make it worse
      Em       C              Em            C
Every reassurance just magnifies the doubt
       Em            D        C        D      G
Better find yourself a place to level out

Em, D

             G                               C              G
Got a cricket for a conscience always looks the other way
         G                                  C       D
A cocaine soul starts seeming like an empty cabaret
            Em                 D                    G       D      C
Hey, where have all the dancers gone? Now the music doesn't play
                Em            C              Em                C
Tried to listen to the river but you couldn't shut your mouth
             Em      D      C       D      G
Better take a little time to level out
     C                     G
I never thought of running
     C                     D
My feet just led the way


     G
Mixed up Signals
     C
Bullet Train
     G                            D
Cars are switched out in the crazy rain
     G                C
I could meet you any place
             D    C    D       G
If the Brakeman turns my way

Em, D

                G                        C           G
All this automatic writing I have tried to understand
               G                         C           D
From a psychedelic angel who was tugging on my hand
               Em         D                G      D      C
It's an infinite coincidence but it doesn't form a plan
              Em             C             Em           C
So I'm headed for New England or the Paris of the South
            Em    D       C           D      G
Gonna find myself somewhere to level out

Em, D

                G                               C         G
Are your brothels full, Oh Babylon, with merry Middlemen?
            G                                       C          D
Never peer out of their periscopes from those deep opium dens
                Em                   D                  G     D     C
All this death must need a counterweight always someone born again
              Em                 C             Em         C
First a mother bathes her child then the other way around
                  Em     D     C       D      G
The Scales always find a way to level out

     C                     G
I tried to pass for nothing
     C                      D
But my dreams gave me away

     G
Mixed up Signals
     C
Bullet Train
     G                          D
People snuffed out in the brutal rain
     G               C
I could live to any age
             D    C   D        G
If the Brakeman turns my way

              Am                       D7
It is an old world it's hard to remember
             G            C
Like a dime store mystery
             Am                 D7
I'm a repeat first time offender
               C         D    (G)
Who has rewritten history

     G
Mixed up tea leaves
     C
Phantom Pain
     G                   D
Fuzzy logic in the crazy rain
     G               D
Getting better every day
             C         D       G
If the Brakeman turns my way
     G
Mixed up Signals
     C
Bullet Train
     G                             D
Cars are switched out in the blinding rain
     G                       C
He'll be smiling as he seals my fate
               D    C    D       G
When the Brakeman turns my way