Tonart: G major
Intro 1
G
D
Verse 1
D
The trip was pretty bleak
But it was cheaper than the train
F#m
Disembarked during a summer storm
Got hammered by the rain
G
As he hobbled down the frontage road
Csus2
With a footlocker and in
Verse 2
D
From a payphone at a the station
He called on some old friends
F#m
And a guy that he'd played football with
Said he could take him in
G
On a blanket on a mattress
Csus2
C
In the basement by
Csus2
the furnace
C
D
He was home again
Verse 3
G
But he'd been gone for long
enough that
D
Something wasn't lining up
Em
This distance didn't exist before
D
The plexiglass at liquor stores.
C
The wretches in the parking lots
Csus2
G
The torches in the smoking
shops
Am
Everything felt twice as hot to him
D
Verse 4
Started ringing up the register
At a Sinclair down the street
F#m
Started saving up and bought a truck
Started sleeping in the backseat
G
In the morning when he wakes up
C
There's a pamphlet on the windshield
Verse 5
Bm
With a cartoon of a shepherd
Tending to some cartoon sheep
D
It said we'll walk you through
the paperwork
The course takes twenty weeks
G
With a military discount
C
D
The divinity comes cheaply and discreetly
Verse 6
D
G
In classrooms in an office park
D
Fluorescent lights against the dark
Em
Long rows of unsteady desks
D
He memorized the sacred texts
C
That earned him the certificate
G
That led him a place to live
Am
And though he didn't believe in it
Interlude 1
A man needs a vocation
G
Verse 7
C
G
So he drove out to Fishersville
Without saying goodbye
C
G
There was never really anything to say
C
The guys that he played football with
Em
Were all starting to die
Am
And it still felt pretty pointless
when he prayed
C
D
Verse 8
G
He'd been there for long enough
D
To know the savior won't show up
Em
The distance between everything
D
And Daniel back in Washington
C
The way it hung above his head
G
The wretches in the tanning beds
Am
Turning up the torch again
G
Virginia with your rolling hills
D
The cities with their easy thrills
Em
The clinics with their sliding scales
D
Scratching out prescriptions
C
They said you can't help somebody else
Em
Until you take care of yourself
Am
He never really fell for it
C
But he was quite convinced
Outro 1
A man needs a vocation
G
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