Meteor City

by Joe Purdy (http://www.joepurdy.com)
From the album Only Four Seasons


Tabbed by Kevin (liquoricewhip@hotmail.com)
Check out the Unofficial Joe Purdy Transcription site at www.kevin.host-ed.net/joepurdy



F:
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C:
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G:
320033
Am:
x02210

F C
(x3)
F C G

F         C        G     Am
I knew a girl in Meteor City
F            C        G         
We used to drive down on Crater Road
F                    C       G             Am
And I would hold her hand, she would look pretty
F                       C          G          Am
Didn't worry about the things we just didn't know
F                       C              G           C
Didn't worry about the things that we just didn't know

F           C             G      Am
I spent my days in this run-down cafe
               F           C          G            
Working for a room at the top of the stairs
      F                  C          G          Am
And she would work the counter man just to be around
            F                C      G
It was the only thing that kept me there
                       F           C               
Couldn't wait for the cool night air
                       F           C 
Couldn't wait for the cool night air


(chorus)


         F     C                      G      Am
I said, "Oh Sofia, where'd you get a name like that
F               C          G            
Living in this dirt-poor town?"
              F               C             G               Am
She said, "I think she was a movie star my father saw before I was born
       F             C      G
But I really don't remember now
                   F           C               
He left when I was so young
           F           C               
When I was so young"

(chorus)

    F         C              G                  Am
At night the stars they all jump through the sky
          F            C            G            
Like the dreams that I miss so much
    F               C             G        Am
And I hid the emptiness and the pain inside
        F             C            G
With a whiskey and a woman's touch
                F           C               
Yeah that's as good as numb
              F           C               
Yeah it's as good as numb


(chorus)