Foggy Lilac Windows Lyrics

Foggy Lilac Windows - Frontier Ruckus
Email: sskinner@wit.edu
The Orion Songbook: Track 8
Matthew Milia: songs, voice, guitar, harmonica, pedal steel
David W. Jones: banjo, voice, dobro
Zachary Nichols: brass, singing-saw, melodica, keyboards
Ryan Etzcorn: drums, percussion
The chords are directly from Matthew on FR's site. I take little to no
credit for them. I did fix the forum formatting problems though.
Chords: relative to capo
Ahh... A7 Lick
Verse I
G^ C Em
Ah, the holes of highway bones are filled
But the tolls of highway loans are billed
To the board of directors of boredom, here
So I slept outside the worried exit
And hurried to avoid the decrepit
Hordes of fallen Lords, I cant afford em, dear
Verse II
But overwhelmed is a laughing word
To say youve taken for granted stillness
On an ever-moving planet
Was the glaciers falling heard
Was the crumbling porchs utter realness
Made of ash or made of granite
Verse III
Oh, Im so longing for my mamas kiss
And scratching my old lifetimes back
That simpleminded tenderness
Is a pity that my searches lack
The graveyard breathes reality
But realitys blurred outside my gates
No matter if I hesitate,
The foggy lilac windows come
And dumb my number one ambition...
And its too much repitition
Cycle through the verse chords regularly: Some added licks he does.
Verse IV
The south was knee-deep in the weeds
And I was in a plank-wood parlor
Every flame from every mouth was only worth a dime
Feeling easier to move than shifting reeds
I was wearing my times on my collar
But my colors dont get bright in seasons time
Verse V
Your biggest grid did shrink and sink
In one nights walk of blindness
To foreign sites where bright lights find you out
When evolution is extinct
And lurking is a fossils kindness
And theres no one left under our sun to sign you out
Verse VI
And the piano strings are damp and deep
And the honky-tonk is breaking free
And the second-grader that you keep
Beneath your skin is next to me
Ah, who likes, who plays these games
And who is clutching to the reins
Cause I scurried open plains
Chorus II
And the foggy lilac windows come
And dumb my number one ambition...
And it's too much competition
Verse VII - Listen to the song to hear how to play this verse
And that bleached canal was rare
And Ma was there
And no one dared to care (about tomorrow)
The road is bare
I go nowhere
And all the joy that I'm aware (is food for sorrow)
The loft upstairs is unprepared
The billboard fields are stoned in pairs
The gravel layers and river dares
And the air is very weary
(end with a verse)
Sources:
Chords - http://www.frontierruckus.com/connect/
Lyrics - http://www.frontierruckus.com/songbook/
Tabs - http://www.youtube.com/watch'v=kei4l3CcYPg
| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off