We Carry The Feeling

A                                                D
Search through the sky for a sign or a simple suggestion
  A                                                            D
I waited all night, but I was fast asleep when it knocked upon my door
        F#m                                  E
It gets lonely here when it's just me and my questions
D                    Dm
Jetsam in the Ether, pulsars pole not drawing anymore


[Interlude]
A E F#m E (x2)


[Verse 1]

A                  E     F#m
I remember it like yesterday
D                     A              F#m                 E
Thought that you were lovely, I just didn't know what to say
A                                E          F#m E
There's all these protocols that get in the way
A                      E    F#m
We were on the edge of seventeen
D              A                  F#m    E
All we knew to say were things we didn't mean
A                          E       F#m    E
'Til impressed you with my wit, it seemed
             D                           A
I learned so much from magazines and television
          D                                     A
About how men relate through rules to tell them how
D                             A
Oh, I saw the signals with precision
F#m
The moments when our habits faltered
E
Omens of desires unhaltered


[Interlude]
A E F#m E (x2)


[Verse 2]

A                           E       F#m
It wasn't long 'til we were sharing beds
               D                A                F#m    E
With different dressings on the dreams appearing in our heads
A                       E         F#m   E
I wanted a lover, you a brother instead
A                           E         F#m
Either way, these things were hard to name
D          A                 F#m      E
Me, always wondering, did we feel the same?
    A                          E        F#m  E
And after a while, all I could feel was shame
D                             A
Stef said I shouldn't see you anymore
D                                   A
Clyde, they tried to call me on the phone to say
     D                               A
Some love's are labors lost, oh, but I'm never sure
        F#m
There's nothing they could tell me about
E
Made me really want to be alone


[Chorus]

D            A
And I felt a funny face
      F#m                       E
Was a worthless waste, caught a hopeless case
D                 A
For sweet boys on sweaty days
           F#m                 E
Don't know what we crave, it remains unspoken
D              A
The longing outlived the place
      F#m                 E                    D
Our artistic taste, it outlived the clothes we wore
D             A
When I feel uncertain now
    F#m           E
I remember how we carry the feeling


[Interlude]
A E F#m E (x2)


[Verse 3]

A                          E         F#m
Those were stories that we saved for dark
D        A                  F#m  E
Lost the plot before they'd even start
       A                                    E         F#m  E
Except once when we were drunk and then you kissed me hard
A                     E       F#m
And so, I fade into a distant star
       D              A            F#m        E
In the brightest company, but everything's so far
         A                                       E            F#m E
Thinking lifetimes pass us, gaseous, things just stay as they are
  D                            A
I tried to chalk it up to expectation
     D                                 A
Or believe that what I wanted was just wrong
          D                       A
But now I better understand assimilation
         F#m
I closed ranks among the ones who felt I
E
Only part belonged among them


[Chorus]

D            A
And I felt a funny face
      F#m                       E
Was a worthless waste, caught a hopeless case
D                 A
For sweet boys on sweaty days
           F#m                 E
Don't know what we crave, it remains unspoken
D              A
The longing outlived the place
      F#m                 E                    D
Our artistic taste, it outlived the clothes we wore
D             A
When I feel uncertain now
    F#m           E
I remember how we carry the feeling