Verse: C High rise, veins of the avenue C Am Bright eyes and subtle variations of blue. Am F Everywhere balanced there like a rainbow above you. C Street lights glisten on the boulevard. C Am And cold nights make staying alert so hard. Am F For heaven’s sake, keep me awake so I won’t be caught off guard. F Dm Clearly I am a passerby but I’ll find a place to stay. F G C Dear pacific day, won’t you take me away? Verse: C Small town hearts of the New Year C Am Brought down by gravity crystal clear. Am C City fog and brave dialogue converge on the frontier. C Make hast, I feel your heartbeat C Am With new taste for speed, out on the street. Am F Find a road to a humble abode where both of our routes meet. F Dm The silver sound is all around and the colors fall like snow. F G C The feeling of letting go, I guess we’ll never know. Chorus: C Cheer up and dry your damp eyes Am And tell me when it rains Dm And I’ll blend up that rainbow above you Am G And shoot it through your veins. C Cause your heart has a lack of color. Am And we should’ve known Dm That we’d grow up sooner or later F G C Cause we wasted all our free time alone. Interlude: C Am C Am Verse: C Your nerves gather with the altitude C Am Exhale the stress so you don’t come unglued. Am Somewhere there is a happy affair, a ghost of a good mood. C Wide eyed, panic on the getaway C The high tide could take me so far away Am F VCRs and motorcars unite on the Seventh Day F Dm a popular gauge will measure the range of the new Post-Modern Age. F G -Am- Cause somewhere along the line all the decades align. Bridge: Am G C F We were the crashing whitecaps. F On the ocean -on the ocean-. Am G C G# D# F What a lovely seaside holiday, away. F G Am F a palm tree in Christmas lights. F My emotion. Am G C Dm Struck a sparkling tone like a xylophone. F G C As we spent the day alone. Interlude: C Am Dm Am G Chorus: C Cheer up and dry your damp eyes Am And tell me when it rains Dm And I’ll blend up that rainbow above you Am G And shoot it through your veins. C Cause your heart has a lack of color. Am And we should’ve known Dm That we’d grow up sooner or later F G C Cause we wasted all our free time alone. Outro: C Am C Am F F Dm F G C