E                                                  E 
If the trials at hand are really getting you down 
          B 
You had a close call 
                          A 
I didn't even see it, then another one 
                            E       E 
I hardly believed it at all 
E 
What the writers say - it means shit to me now 
B 
Plants and animals 
                             A 
We're on a bender when it's 80 degrees 
                              E 
The end of December - what's going on?       
Ab    A      F#     B       A       E 
OOH   Only for      you and me

E 
In a showing of hands, "Who's going back to the South?" 
                B 
Where hungry necks that I know  
                             A 
(been running a blender in a lightning storm)  
                                 E      E 
Are disguised as a blessing I'm sure 
E 
And knowing ahead, there comes a fork in the road 
B 
Pants have got to go 
                           A 
We're on an island on the fourth of July 
                        E           E 
Looks like the tide is going home 
E 
In time I find a little way to your heart 
           B 
Now to the general store for nothing specific 
         A                              E 
Going to wash my bones in the Atlantic shore 
Ab    A       F#    B      A        E 
OOH   Only for      you and me