External Actor Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]It's all I'm looking for
These moment[D]s of opaque-
eyed knocked- out rapture
Helpless as a cow for the capture
[G]Chosen in a frozen instant

[Verse 2]
[G]Far away from the scabbed- out moment
Far [D]from the flick- flick-
flick of the flatscreen
Far from the poison power of cash
Green cash [G]reeking and heating
the jetstream

[Verse 3]
[G]Oh, the shop- sweet breath,
she is my daughter
Daugh[D]ter of the flashing instant
Daughter of watching "Daughters
of Darkness"
[G]On your parents' couch with your
high- school boyfriend

[Verse 4]
Spinning fevered in a [G]hazy ditch
We daugh[D]ters of long hard skids
on the 10- speed
Daughters of July rips of the land speed
[G]Semi- freckled eternal thrasher

[Verse 5]
[G]Feather- haloed floating
hair eye- [D]flasher
Floating like a fire in the distance
Flashing like a flush to the skin
And whis[G]pering like the wind
through the rushes

[Verse 6]
[Em]Oh n[Am]o, external ac[G]tor
[D]External act[C]or
[D]

[Verse 7]
[G]You gotta hoist the high flag
You gotta learn how to hang
with the freaks and the [D]hicks
And the heat of the lot
You gotta learn what is
and what is not
And you learn [G]what isn't is not a lot

[Verse 8]
To drain a tin beer [G]Streaming
cold in the fields
Sun [D]is up and the heat is relentless
Dropping the rainbow rain on the canvas
[G]Calls her friends in the capital
of cannabis

[Verse 9]
Where the [G]cops down the block
And they circle and they stop
And they circle and they stop
[D]And they stop and they circle
And they stop,
God help 'cause it's a lot
And may God [G]have mercy

[Verse 10]
on the polyglot
[Em]Oh n[Am]o, external ac[G]tor
[D]External act[C]or
[D][G]

[Verse 11]
A million miles across, the starlight
Skip [D]skip skip
A wide long curve of
spacedust melt around a star
Keep shin[G]ing in the cold
Keep shining in [D]the dark
[Em][Am][G]

[Verse 12]
[D]
External [G]act[C] or[G][D]
[G]

[Verse 13]
Neighbor- loving,
brother- loving
[D]Blanketing love of God above
Sigh of the river far from shore
[G]Silence and the voice
don't speak any [D]more
Si[G]lence and the voice
don't speak any [D]more
Si[G]lence and the voice
don't speak any [D]more
Silence [G]and the voice
don't speak any [D]more
Silence and [G]the voice
don't speak any [D]more
[G]Silence and the voice
don't speak any [D]more
Silence [G]and the voice don't speak any more