Chinatown Bus Chords & Lyrics by Bishop Allen
Chinatown Bus
guitar chords lyrics
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I caught the bus in Chinatown
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And slept the whole way up I-95
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The driver, cut and weaved so crazy, just his luck kept him alive and I
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guess I believe his rhythm on that morning after New Year's Eve
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And I remember Shanghai
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How I wasn't sure just what was safe to eat
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The chickens pecked and wandered at the barefeet of the children hawking
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figurines of workers smiling
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What's the Chinese word for cheese?
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Watched a sidewalk butcher
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His instinctive understanding made the carcass snap and clarify beneath his
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nimble hand that held the knife so long, so many times, the handles' changed
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to shapes just like his fingers and his palms
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And I, I am a broken glass
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Shards upon the floor
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Won't hold nothing anymore
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And I, I am a broken glass
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Shards upon the floor
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Won't hold nothing anymore
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Anymore
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It's 2AM in Tokyo
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And still too soon to call back to the people who will soon begin the day I
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polished off and I will walk a mile amidst the neon lights that advertise
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but I don't know just what they sell
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I tell the taxi driver
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To the park, a higher tone
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And his gloves his pristine white just like the girls I used to know would
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wear to dance their first cotillion
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Every single one of them named Jennifer
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I clutched at the Saint Christopher
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I picked up at some country abbey long ago when I believed he'd keep me safe
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and make me happy but it seems the luck he brings is not the common currency
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a penny in Japan
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And I, I am a broken glass
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Shards upon the floor
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Won't hold nothing anymore
C Em
And I, I am a broken glass
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Shards upon the floor
Am
Won't hold nothing anymore
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And I, I am a broken glass
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Shards upon the floor
Am
Won't hold nothing anymore
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Anymore
