Sun Kil Moon - Bens my friend

^Fm9I woke up this morning, August 3rd ^Fm9It's been a pretty slow and uneventful ^Ebmaj7summer ^Ebmaj7Went to visit a friend in Santa Fe Went to New Orleans and went to see my ^Fm9family ^Fm9Woke up this morning and it occurred ^Fm9I needed one more track to finish up my ^Ebmaj7record ^Ebmaj7I was feeling out of fuel and uninspired ^Ebmaj7Laid on my bed too long, a little down, a little tired

^Cm7Met my girl and we walked down Union ^Cm7/BbStreet I was scattered and my head was in a bunch of ^Abmaj7places Bought a $350 pair of lamp^Gm7shades And we ate at Perry's and I ordered ^Fm7crab cakes Blue crab ^Gm7cakes Blue crab ^Fm7cakes Blue crab ^Gm7cakes

She said I seemed ^Cm7distracted and asked what was going on with me^Cm7/Bb I said, "I can't explain it, it's a middle age thing"^Abmaj7 She said okay and ate her eggs Bene^Gm7dict And I looked at the walls cluttered with ^Fm7sports bar shit Sports bar ^Gm7shit Sports bar ^Fm7shit Sports bar ^Gm7shit

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^Fm9Got on the phone and I called my mother And called my father, talked a little bit with my ^Ebmaj7sister ^Ebmaj7She's got a new boyfriend, he's a deer hunter ^Ebmaj7And she's getting used to venison

And my ^Cm7dad's still fighting with his girlfrie^Cm7/Bbnd About his flirting with the girls in Panera Bread ^Abmaj7 My mom is good but sounded out of breath I ^Gm7worry so much about her, I worry to ^Fm7death I worry to ^Gm7death I worry about her to ^Fm7death I worry to ^Gm7death

The ^Fm9other night I went and saw The Postal Service Ben's my friend but getting there was the ^Ebmaj7worst ^Ebmaj7Trying to park and getting up the hill ^Ebmaj7And find a spot amongst the drunk kids staring at their cells ^Fm9Standing at the back with the crowd of eight thousand I thought of Ben when I met him in ^Ebmaj72000 ^Ebmaj7At a festival in Spain ^Ebmaj7He was on the small stage then and I didn't know his name

^Cm7Now he's singing at the Greek and he's busting ^Cm7/Bbmoves And my legs were hurting and my feet were ^Abmaj7too I called him after, said I'll skip the backstage hi/^Gm7bye But thanks for the nice music and ^Fm7all the exercise And we laughed and it was ^Gm7alright And we laughed and it was ^Fm7alright And it was al^Gm7right

There's a fine line ^Fm9between a middle-aged guy with a backstage pass And a guy with a gut hanging around like a ^Ebmaj7jackass ^Ebmaj7Everybody there was twenty years younger than me I'll leave with this, not my fondest ^Fm9memory ^Fm9I carried my legs back down and then I gave My backstage passes to two cute asian ^Ebmaj7girls ^Ebmaj7I drove to my place near Tahoe Got in my hot tub and I thought well that's how it ^Fm9goes ^Fm9And it was quiet and I was listening to the crickets ^Fm9And Ben's still out there, selling lots of tickets And ^Ebmaj7though I’m contented, there’s a tinge of competitiveness ^Ebmaj7But Ben's my friend and I know he gets it

^Cm7Then in a couple of days my meltdown pa^Cm7/Bbssed Back to the studio doing twelve hours ^Abmaj7shifts Singing a song about one thing or an^Gm7other Another day behind the microphone^Fm7 this summer This Tenderloin ^Gm7summer This Tenderloin ^Fm7summer This Tenderloin ^Gm7summer