Goodbye And Hello

    Am                 D
The antique people are down in the dungeons
Am                  D
Run by machines and afraid of the tax
      Am                           D
Their heads in the grave and their hands on their eyes
Am                          G
Hauling their hearts around circular tracks
   F                     C
Pretending forever their masquerade towers
    G                       Gsus4
Are not really riddled with widening cracks
G
And I wave goodbye to iron
F                      Gm
And smile hello to the air

      Gm           F               Eb
O the new children dance      I am young
    D          Gm                    F
All around the balloons       I will live
Eb         D                       Gm
Swaying by chance             I am strong
       F               Eb           D
To the breeze from the moon   I can give
Gm           F                        Eb
Painting the sky              You the strange
         D         Gm                 F
With the colors of sun        Seed of day
Eb          D                          Gm
Freely they fly               Feel the change
   F          Eb                       D             Gm / F / E D G
As all become one             Know the Way, know the Way

G / / / (x2)

    G                C
The velocity addicts explode on the highway
  G                      C
Ignoring the journey and moving so fast
      G                          C
Their nerves fall apart and they gasp but can't breathe
     G                        C
They run from the cops of the skeleton past
     F                      C
Petrified by tradition in a nightmare they stagger
G                            Bb   Am F G
Into nowhere at all and then look up aghast
G
And I wave goodbye to speed
F                    Gm
And smile hello to a rose

O the new children play   I am young
Under juniper trees       I will live
Sky blue or grey          I am strong
They continue at ease     I can give
Moving so slow            You the strange
That serenely they can    Seed of day
Gracefully grow           Feel the change
And yes still understand  Know the Way

G                               Bb Am  Gm     F
The king and the queen in their castle of billboards
G                           Bb Am Gm   F
Sleepwalk down the hallways dragging behind
Gm                        Bb  Am    Gm   F
All their possessions and transient treasures
Gm                    Bb   Am  Gm    F
As they go to worship the electronic shrine
C                       Eb
On which is playing the late late commercial
        F                      C       G
In that hollowest house of the opulent blind
G
And I wave goodbye to Mammon
F                    Gm
And smile hello to a stream

O the new children buy    I am young
All the world for a song  I will live
Without a dime            I am strong
To which they belong      I can give
Nobody owns               You the strange
Anything anywhere         Seed of day
Everyone's grown          Feel the change
Up so big they can share  Know the Way

    C                   Bb            C
The vaudeville generals cavort on the stage
                                Bb         C
And shatter their audience with submachine guns
                             Bb      C
And Freedom and Violence the acrobat clowns
                          Bb            C
Do a balancing act on the graves of our sons

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While the tapdancing Emperor sings "War is peace"
(N.C.)
And Love the Magician disappears in the fun
G
And I wave goodbye to murder
F                      Gm
And smile hello to the rain

O the new children can't   I am young
Tell a foe from a friend   I will live
Quick to enchant           I am strong
And so glad to extend      I can give
Handfuls of dawn           You the strange
To kaleidoscope men        Seed of day
Come from beyond           Feel the change
The Great Wall of Skin     Know the Way

D                          C
The bloodless husbands are jesters who listen
     D                           C
Like sheep to the shrieks and commands of their wives
        D                            C
And the men who aren't men leave the women alone
D                             G           F
See them all faking love on a bed made of knives
 D                    C
Afraid to discover or trust in their bodies
       D                        G        F
And in secret divorce they will never survive
G
And I wave goodbye to ashes
F                    Gm
And smile hello to a girl

O the new children kiss       I am young
They are so proud to learn    I will live
Womanwood bliss               I am strong
And the manfire that burns    I can give
Knowing no fear               You the strange
They take off their clothes   Seed of day
Honest and clear              Feel the change
As a river that flows         Know the Way

    Am                 D
The antique people are fading out slowly
     Am                    D
Like newspapers flaming in mind's suicide
Am                    D
Godless and sexless directionless loons
      Am                  G
Their sham sandcastles dissolve in the tide
     F                           C
They put on their deathmasks and compromise daily
    G                              Bb Am  F    G
The new children will live for the elders have died
G
And I wave goodbye to America
F                      Gm
And smile hello to the world