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The Shining Hour
AmAre we stilCl on the phone=20 Bm Dm AmWith laCdy Anna Clarke and herBm trumpet solo? Dm AmWhose ghostC sings for pay Bm Dm AmIn the bluCe billiarBmd room of the MDmonterey AmFor rCoom and for board Bm Dm AmAnd the back Cdoor key is a 19th centuBmry civil war swordDm AmOnce ownedC by John Booth Bm Dm Am C Bm Dm =20 And heAm misplaced his script when he caught his leather boot
TGhis could be the shining hourF Dm Am GBased on all thFis maDmd beAmlief GIn money oil and angel powFder Dm Am G F Dm=09 In the new age magazine=20
There=92s a hole in the wall Behind the photograph of Al Capone He=92s sittin=92 down at city hall The police they peek through here And they watch you get dressed in the two-way mirror But it=92s all in good spirits And if you close eyes you can=92t help, help but to hear =91em move This could be the shining hour Based on all this mad belief In the money oil and angel powder In the new age magazine I propose a toast To the memory of the horse who carried King Tut and his gold Into the sun He collapsed last summer from a heat stroke somewhere in the east=20 village, oh=20 And it kills me to think That I=92m no longer living Just looking for excuses to dink So lift up your glass And your Ouija board =91cause I=92m fading, fading, fading fast