When The Open Road Is Closing In
The Magnetic FieldsVersion1
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Chords in this song
Strum
D-DU-UDU
....2.3..2....2.3..2..
3...........3.........
repeat
time - measured in dotted yellow lines has past you by
and I never said an honest thing to you in all my life
hard times go slowly
and the good times never come
the world is a motor inn in a iowa highway slum
when the open road is closing in
and you can't say where it ends and you begin
when every truck stop dive's another five years off your life
when the open road is closing in
and the dotted yellow lines begin to spin
when the sky begins to fall on everything you like at all
you won't be coming home again
ciao you keep on drowning in the roads between the towns
now i have been closing all the shutters in the house
well i know you'll be back when every tree is turning brown
you'll find the house is empty and the swingset's fallen down
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Readable chord sheet for When The Open Road Is Closing In by The Magnetic Fields
[A] ....2.3..2....2.3..2.. [E] 3...........3......... repeat t[G]ime - measured in dotted yellow li[C]nes has past you by [G] a[G]nd I never said an honest thing to yo[C]u in all my lif[G]e h[D]ard times [C]go slowly a[G]nd the good t[D]imes never come t[C]he world is a mo[G]tor inn in a i[D]owa highway slum w[G]hen the open ro[D]ad is closing in [C] a[Em]nd you can't say where it en[D]ds and you beg[A]in w[G]hen every truck st[D]op dive's anothe[C]r five years off your[B7] life w[G]hen the open ro[D]ad is closing in [C] a[Em]nd the dotted yellow li[D]nes begin to spi[A]n w[G]hen the sky beg[D]ins to fall on[C] everything you lik[B7]e at all y[Am]ou won't be co[D]ming home agai[Am]n [D] [G] ciao you keep on drowning in the roads between the towns now i have been closing all the shutters in the house well i know you'll be back when every tree is turning brown you'll find the house is empty and the swingset's fallen down