The Tame, The Half-Born, The Wild and You Ron Hawkins album: The Secret of my Excess
transcribed by Kevin Cumming
intro: G Am Em C x2 NOTE: When playing Am in the intro, start off with the B string open and then hammer on the 1st fret for the same sound that Ron has.
If Carolyn called me up today I'd hang up the phone and walk away
It's not that I don't care anymore but time changes locks on a lot of doors
And I know what you're thinking and it's true
Sometimes there is nothing you can do
But there's a time that I recall a purple street in Lisbon
She was speaking dreams to me and I thought I was listening
But I was fifteen yards away before I felt the distance
She cried in Augusta street and stared into the windows
And I know what she's thinking and it's true
Sometimes there is nothing she can do
Carolyn is tamed... All those years and all those tears Cuddling her insecure And shaking like a child and feeling helpless But maybe I share the blame
Peter has a fan club he's a whiskey hating Christian
And he's in love with everyone as long as they keep listening
And there's a hole in my old faith where he belongs
But, the whole of me has never been that strong
Peter is half-born... With one foot in and one foot out A princess on a barstool Anarcho- Commun- Liberat- ingratiating stranger to me now
Bridge:
Close friends and passerby love affairs and suicides
Sex and drugs and crash n' burn decisions politics and prostitute religions
Fucking at the movies or fighting in the street
Christopher's a scapegoat cause he lives like a poem
And they want explanations but I just want to know him
Not for what he claims to be or what they say he isn't
Just because he's got the balls to make his own decisions
And sometimes the pain he's feeling is so real
Sometimes that is all I need to feel
Christopher is wild... With fire-escape guitar afflictions Different lives but shared addictions Late night taxi, Frank Black happy birthdays And blood-pact butchers knives
Amsterdam, the sex museums and the New York City subway
Vancouver in November, and Montreal on Monday
We'll get a fix in Union Square we'll drop at C.B.G.B.'s
And if we can't find salvation there, we'll stay home and watch the t.v.
And I'll be your disciple if you'll be mine
And we'll make love in the moaning summertime
Cause you are beautiful...
Chords: 320033 Am x02210 022000 C x32010 133211 D xx0232
