Wasps' Nests
 
1. San Diego Zoo
2. Aging Spinsters
3. All Dressed Up in Dreams
4. Falling Out of Love (with You)
5. Winter in July
6. Pillow Fight
7. Dream Hat
8. Movies in My Head
9. In the City in the Rain
10. Looking for Love (in the Hall of Mirrors)
11. Heaven in a Black Leather Jacket
12. Here in My Heart
13. Puerto Rico Way
14. You Can't Break a Broken Heart
15. When I'm Out of Town
16. Yet Another Girl
 
Rot in the Sun

1. SAN DIEGO ZOO

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   Met you on a traffic island  We were there all day 

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   in the middle of the world's highway
Summer left its light green lipstick on our faces 
Took us to all the pretty places

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(C): Highway 405 will take you from the Boom Boom Room
to Interstate 5 which goes right to the San Diego Zoo.  
San Diego Zoo. San Diego Zoo. 

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    San Diego Zoo. San Diego Zoo.

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How could I have ever left you?  

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(How could I have ever left you?)    <- this line is left out
                                        in the first chorus

Left you in a sidewalk café  I'm the restless kind
And I must have been out of my mind 
'cause I haven't slept since Wednesday  I've been getting thin
I just want to see your silly grin (C) (C)

2. AGING SPINSTERS         C:032010        F:133211       G:320033 You can have a fall and winter of your own  staying warm inside your Victorian home              F         C       F     C            G  but when the city's so hot the winos burst into flames When the Jesus freaks collapse with the weight of their claims Dm:x00231  F        C     G (C): Marry young, Diana   I don't want to see you old and alone It's no fun, Diana   Dm        F               C                    G               C   I don't want to see you rot in the home for aging spinsters.   You should find someone as loyal as a dog  who will still love you when you look like a frog Someone to rock your chair and bring you pink lemonade Someone to peel you a grape 100 degrees in the shade (C)
3. ALL DRESSED UP IN DREAMS       G:320033 D:x00232 C:032010 D I was happy           which is not like me at all   For an hour  I was feeling 10 feet tall       Em:022000    A:002220 and I had myself a ball  I was heading for a fall              C           G     D     (C): I got all dressed up in dreams  and I waited by the door but you never even called     C                 D          G D C D to tell me you don't love me anymore.   You're so pretty everybody falls for you  In this city it's the only thing to do So I cried for 16 days and I cried in 16 ways. (C)  You said you'd arrive at 8, but you're 17 days late. (C)  So I wander in the rain as I slowly go insane        C           G     D     I got all dressed up in dreams  and I waited by the door but you never even called     C                 D          C   G   D  to tell me you don't love me anymore           C       G   D you don't love me anymore you don't love me anymore you don't love me anymore you don't love me anymore you don't love me anymore

4. FALLING OUT OF LOVE (WITH YOU) D:x00232 A:002220  G:320033  A     In an old Silverline  I was yours, you were mine   I was hoarse, you were mean  We designed drum machines   (C): But every day in every way  I'm falling out of love with you Every kiss means less and less I'm falling out of love with you  Every hour kills a flower I'm falling out of love with you  You just bore me more and more I'm falling out of love with you  They made sounds much like drums  I was young you were dumb Now you're older and I'm wiser We design synthesizers (C)

5. WINTER IN JULY                   C:032010              G:320033 (C): All alone in Melbourne all I do is cry                                               C All I see is rain falling  It's winter in July   In another city neath another sky  Are you feeling lonely  It's winter in July.                             G  F:133211                C          Would you have fallen in love if we'd stayed another day We could have fallen in love but you let me fly away I saw something in your eyes that I'll never find again and now there's something in mine so I'll walk out in the rain (C) It's winter in July

6. PILLOW FIGHT C:032010    D:x00232       Am:002210        F:133211 How sad the castle with no foundation underground Sadder still is the lover with no mystery left unfound You threaten to pack your trunks and go back to Chinatown (C): Did I say something impolitic or did I lay it on too thick and  are we breaking up tonight or can we have a pillow fight Do we really need to hire a plane to carpetbomb down memory lane and  shall we figure out who's right or can we have a pillow fight. Diverse unpleasantness gather around our bed  like pigeons round a park bench clamoring to be fed Let us kill all these rats with wings by feeding them poisoned bread (C)

7. DREAM HAT           A:002220           I've been working in these here fields like it's something real                            G:320033  D:x00232 like it's got something to do with me Looking out on a wasted life with a wasted wife  who will have nothing to do with me                   G     D   A   D                  G    D   A   D (C): But I wear a dream hat now one that's made of silk and lace I wear a dream hat now the only way to leave this place I wear a dream hat now and give up on the human race  I wear a dream hat now so I won't have to see your face.   I have suffered a million fools in factories and schools  and in my little trailer home I have suffered a million fools in rags and in jewels  I just want to be let alone (C)
8. MOVIES IN MY HEAD          A:002220                     G:320033         D:x00232 While it may come as a shock I wasn't born to love you               G                              D          A Though you've tried every trick known to Madison Avenue I will eat all chocolate fed to me I'll ride in the park  But it's only fair to tell you you're whistling in the dark    A                     D (C): I can't remember anything you've ever said G                                D            A   You don't hold a candle to the movies in my head   I can't remember any life I might have led I sit in the dark and watch the movies in my head G                            D            A   I'm always starring in the movies in my head.   You can tell me all your secrets till you're blue in the face You can stare into my eyes but I'll be off in a daze In my Indonesian palace I will probably stay If you give me rings and roses I will throw them away (C) (C)

9. IN THE CITY IN THE RAIN G:320033     C:032010   D:x00232                      G C D   In the city in the rain you've got a beautiful face In the city in the rain you vanish without a trace   In the city in the rain you've got mysterious ways   In the city in the rain I'm gonna spend all my days  (C): I think I'm gonna dance all night long I think I'm gonna dance till the moon goes down. In the city in the rain, inside a smoky cafe In the city in the rain you tell me that you'll stay In the city in the rain you suddenly slip away In the city in the rain I'm gonna spend all my days (C) In the city in the rain I hear the screaming of tires   In the city in the rain I'm setting myself on fire In the city in the rain among the beautiful lights   In the city in the rain I think I'll dance all night (C)

10. LOOKING FOR LOVE (IN THE HALL OF MIRRORS) INTRO: E---3--3-2-33--3-2-33--3-2-33--3-2-3--- B---3--3-3-33--3-3-33--3-3-33--3-3-3--- G---0--0-0-02--2-2-20--0-0-00--0-0-0--- D---0--0-0-00--0-0-02--2-0-20--0-0-0--- A---2--2-x-xx--0-0-03--3-x-32--2-x-x--- E---3--3-x-xx--x-x-xx--x-x-x3--3-x-x--- ALTERNATE INTRO:  G:320033  xx0233  032033  G          G:320033              Am:002210    C:032010 G When you left them back on the farm for the city at  dawn                            Am         C           G The drone of youth and the hum of the pretty were songs  You thought you'd never forget  It's a pity they're gone               D:x00232              C (C): When the sun goes down and the moon appears you go looking for love in the hall of mirrors.   There's a dark place down by the tracks where the wrinkles don't show They've got a room in the back where the lonely hearts go You can get in on the act or just take in the show (C) (C) (C) (C)

11. HEAVEN IN A BLACK LEATHER JACKET G:320033        C:032010  G         C    D:x00232 C D C    She'll be leaving on a Sunday morning train You'll be hanging around the docks again Am:002210 C       G       D      Some work is never done Am         C         G       D         G   C  G      Can't sleep for holding on till then                  C               G   D              C        G  D (C): Heaven in a black leather jacket hit me like a hurricane   Heaven in a black leather jacket I don't even know your name             C               G   D                Heaven in a black leather jacket                 G              C G C D C D C kiss me in the Hollywood rain.   You've been running through the limbic system maze drowning it in a dull lysergic haze Can't find much peace of mind but after sunset you'll be fine (C) Can't find much peace of mind but after sunset you'll be fine (C)

12. HERE IN MY HEART                            E:022100                           B:224442 (C): There's a beautiful song since you came along here in my heart                                                            E There's a beautiful sound since you came around here in my heart There's a soft summer rain since the day that you came here in my heart There's a whole wonderland when I'm holding your hand            A:002220  E:022100   B:224442 Here in my heart you planted a seed  Here in my heart you're all I need.             C#m:446654   A          E When you're gone, I'm alone, and I cry       A                G#:466544   A But I know you'll come home by and by   In the gloom of my room night and day  till my eyes turn as red as a flame  G#             A    G#     crying your name (C)  In a year will these tears turn to joy Or am I just a vice just a toy?   In a while will your smile fade away   Will we be history gone astray nothing to say? (C)            E Here in my heart

13. PUERTO RICO WAY The chords provided are a half step lower than the actual recording. To play along with the record, capo the first fret or use bar chords.     C:032010           G:320033   Am:002210         F:133211 The sun pissing in the streets of some hung over place     C                   G             C   Am   F dances with two left feet upon her face But soft!  She is fast asleep beneath her mosquitoes You would never want to know what she knows              C                                 F    (C): I met a girl down Puerto Rico Way with an eye as true as steel                        G                                         C And the hair grew red upon her head  Oh love it would have been ideal The summer air down Puerto Rico Way is as hot as it can be but the orchestra plays night and day  Martina, will you dance with me?   She's drunk every single day  She's young most of the time She's spent all of the rent on her decline She's fun, fun to be around  She's done everything once She's a fallen woman fallen sound asleep in the sun (C)

14. YOU CAN'T BREAK A BROKEN HEART C:032010 G:320033    C             G   D:x00232 Some  -  times you remind me of a doll  lifelike but so frail and so small      C        G       Em:022000  D     C        G       Em   D Your plastic eyes see nothing and your painted lips are still     C       G         Em      D       G And I know you don't love me but you will    G        C     G           D (C): You've tried science you've tried art  but you can't break a broken heart You can tear my brain apart  but you can't break a broken heart. You cried when you knew I would look You tried every trick in the book But I read that book yesterday and yesterday's for fools and I won't play by yesterday's dumb rules (C) (C) (C) You've tried science you've tried art

15. WHEN I'M OUT OF TOWN The chords provided are a half step lower than the actual recording. To play along with the record, capo the first fret. (xxx033 xxx032) 4 times                            D:x00232  032033                         Where do you go               G:320033 when I'm not around Who do you love when I'm out of town                   C:032010 Am:002210      Em:022000             A:002220 The butcher, the baker,    the thin undertaker who makes not a sound              D   032033                 (xxx033 xxx032) 4 times Who do you love       when I'm out of town Have all my dreams come tumbling down   Who's in your arms where I used to drown  The old money-lender, the lonely bartender, the carnival clown Who do you love when I'm out of town G:320033          D              C      Don't say it doesn't matter anyway  G               D               C      because it doesn't matter what you say All our pages are turning to brown We're breaking up and I'm breaking down The man in the forest, the dashing young florist, the nurse musclebound Who do you love when I'm out of town Who do you love when I'm out of town Who do you love when I'm out of town

16. YET ANOTHER GIRL F#:244322 D#m:668876      B:224442    Mademoiselle Chelsea Hotel       C#:446664      F# Prettiest in all the world The divinest androgyne Silver wig and plastic pearls F#         D#m         B    Oh, the TV sets on fire          C# Shall we go?                  F#             D#m (C): Yet another girl in a limousine Yet another girl on the New York scene             B                  F#                C# Yet another nightclub-hopping, diet pill-popping sex machine Yet another maid to order destined for the silver screen             F#                D#m Yet another girl  Yet another girl             F# Yet another girl Causing accidents again As you try to cross the street Live on shots and cigarettes What the hell, it's only meat It's an artform in itself Dying young  (C)

ROT IN THE SUN                     C:032010 Something about the absence of any seasons        D:x00232 of any sense of time going by Something in the endless procession of palm trees You'll fall in love and you'll never die You get signed to a major Top 40 label Blow David Geffen, blow Seymour Stein You can make an atrocious Top 40 record no one will know in two weeks time G:320033             A:002220 (C): Let ending begin Rot in the wind The end has begun Rot in the sun. You can find your own love and a place to stay even in New York, New York but not in L.A.   Be a movie star or a runaway Somebody will love you in Cannes but not in L.A.  Not in L.A. (C) (C)

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