Just Once In The World

C
Found the throughline for all humankind

If given the time
                               Dm
They’ll blow up or walk on the moon

It’s just what they do

    C
For personal gain on Thanksgiving Day

I joined the parade
                          Dm
I stood at the top of the float

And threw out a rose

          C
Watched a blast from the past, Indigenous dance

Started to laugh
                           Dm
And then I just started to cry
              G
This world is waving goodbye


[Chorus]
   C     G         Dm      G
So cut a rug let’s throw a party
C        G         Dm   G
Birthday cards for everyone
C       G        Dm         G
Swallow hard and say you’re sorry
Dm     G        Dm       G
Just admit what you have done


[Verse]
  C
I studied your work like architecture

Cathedral of words
                          Dm
The meaning’s not easy to tell

Comes back around on itself

  C
Admirers, your biographer

The odometer
                                Dm
There’s no way to turn back the clock

It’s going to run until it stops

     C
So excited to play, we turned up all the way

Electric, ecstatic, psychotic
                Dm
Jumped into the drums
         G
Was pandemonium


[Chorus]
   C       G          Dm   G
So if it’s time let’s go together
C      G       Dm      G
I will be your ballast now
      C      G       Dm     G
Let’s sail into that stormy weather
Dm        G   Dm       G
No matter how it turns out


[Bridge]
Dm                           Em
I just want to stand by your side
                          Am
When everyone calls you a lie
                                                      A7
I’ll be your shield. There’s still some truth worth defending.
Dm                              Em
Let’s stroll to the edge of the cliff
                        Am
Stop here and give me a kiss
                                                      G
Now we’re walking on air, there’s no hell beneath our feet


[Verse]
      C
If it ever occurred, just once in the world

A love as absurd
                               Dm
As ours I would scream what we lost
         G           C
From the mountaintop