Lily White Way

 F#                     C#
I need inspiration, I'm so disconnected
  D#m                              B
I look to the streets, but they're so disinfected
  F#                       C#
I wish that I came from an edgier place
     D#m                  B
With taxis and transients up in my face
          D#m                         A#m
Where you write what you know and you know what you write
        B                        C#
Will be hailed as the second coming
          F#                        C#
There's a buzz on the streets where you grew up homeless
    D#m
And begging for change
          B
Well, I'm begging for change


[Chorus]
            B                      F#
Cause we're hung up on crosses and obeying bosses
            B                    F#
And there's no inspiration, just appreciation for
B                     D#m
Seventy and sunny and one for the money
    B           C#         B    C#    F#
And two for the show on my lily white way


[Verse 2]
F#                           C#
There lives a black man, the seal has been broken
         D#m                   B
And they marvel at how he's so very well spoken
   F#                   C#
He must be a doctor or something productive
    D#m                  B
His body let go, but his color seductive
    D#m                    A#m
And all of the women, he's touching their lives
              B                            C#
While they're safe at home touching themselves
        F#                               C#
And the men, they just love that there's something, anything
D#m                  B
Happening at all, behind bedroom walls


[Chorus]
            B                      F#
Cause we're hung up on crosses and obeying bosses
            B                    F#
And there's no inspiration, just appreciation for
B                     D#m
Seventy and sunny and one for the money
    B           C#         B    C#    F#
And two for the show on my lily white way


[Verse 3]
F#                                C#
There's the sixties throwback who misses the Dead
        D#m                     B
She's a liberal at heart but conservative in bed
        F#                       C#
And she held out on Starbucks as long as she could
        D#m                     B
But the mom and pop store in our neighborhood
          D#m                         A#m
Well, the workers all look down their noses at her
          B                                C#
She'll go broke trying to please them with tips
       F#                        C#
So she gets to the corporate run coffee shop early
          D#m
Where the smell of it hits
          B
Before it reaches her lips


[Chorus]
      B                      F#
She's bearing the crosses of neighborhood losses
        B              F#
And the uninspired and semi-retired
      B                           D#m
She's seventy and sunny, but it's one for the money
    B           C#          B    C#    F#
And two for the show on her lily white way


[Instrumental]
B      F#   x4


[Chorus]
      B                      F#
We're hung up on crosses and old Pagan bosses
            B                    F#
And there's no inspiration, just appreciation for
B                     D#m
Seventy and sunny and one for the money
    B           C#         B    C#    F#
And two for the show on my lily white way


[Verse 4]
F#                          C#m
A little destruction makes way for construction
    D#m                  B
The city expansion holds traffic for ransom
    F#m                           C#m
And brand new brick buildings, of those I am certain
     D#m                          B
Will leave our lives so much more sterile than urban
    D#m                     A#m
And welcome the progress or be overrun
      B                         C#
Every third house a pool, every second a gun
       F#                    C#
And on Saturday evenings the doors open wide
       D#m
It's a neighborhood waltz
           B
That's the neighborhood pride


[Chorus]
    B                       F#
And dresses disheveled from dances with devils
     B                       F#
Once hung up on crosses, now flipping off their bosses
    B                            D#m
And everything is funny and it's one for the money
    B           C#            B    C#    F#
And two for the show on their lily white way
B                      D#m
One night of living is Sunday forgiven
B           C#          B    C#    F#
All for the show on our lily white way


[Outro]
F#                      C#m
I need inspiration, I'm so disconnected
  D#m                              B
I look to the streets, but they're so disinfected