Roll On Chords & Lyrics by Simon Joyner
Roll On
guitar chords lyrics
D* - 000233
F* - 055433
Intro : C
C G
You were up to your necklace in drunk friends and wreckage
C
when the New Year
G
Stepped out of the past through the rose colored glass
C
and dropped you off here
F C F
With a broken kazoo, a faded marijuana tattoo, and confetti in your hair
F* C
Now you're Jesus' age, \but you've only been betrayed by the calendar
G
Your mother remarried
after your father was buried
C
in this sailor's suit
G
Now she sells real estate,
he floats in his grave,
C
and neither has much to say to you
F
So you follow a cloud
C
to a Betsy Ross shroud and see the wind try to rip it in two
F*
But it don't make you feel any better
when you're under the weather
C
and it's hanging over you
F
It's fading, It's fading
C F
So what are you going to do now?
F*
All America asked was for you to mow the grass,
F
But you're thinking of throwing in the towel
C F D*
Roll on, Roll on, Roll on
C
G
Mystery is bandaged
with routine, Plaster-of-Paris,
C
and mosquito net
G
While paint thinner blades
C
strip the windshield of salt cake and sunset
F
Someone once said
the humble would stumbled
C F
onto something long forgotten and ravaged,
F*
But your dreams soak the pillow
C
just as a thimble of rain feeds the cactus
G
So drain your bruises,
cut your scapegoats loose
C
and confess ignorance
G
Pull a metaphor out of a river
C
or a door and add your fingerprints
F
You could always go west
just like the rest
C F
and bury your head into the hot sand
F*
Or you could dust your broom
C
and dissolve the moon on your eyelids
F
It's fading, It's fading
C F
So what are you going to do now?
F*
All America asked was for you to mow the grass,
F
But you're thinking of throwing in the towel
C F D*
Roll on, Roll on, Roll on
Enjoy.
