National Velocity

27 Apr 2011

You can run it back at half speed or play it double time
Flip it upside down and backwards, sync it up and make it rhyme
But no matter how you sell it or which way you make it spin
You’ll be going out the same way you came in

There's no mistaking the direction
The heading or the speed
The weight of what is gone or what's to be
It doesn't take a magician
Or a prophet to see
The national velocity

You can dress it up in leather, top it off with a Stetson hat
Get it all decked out uniform, epaulets and spats
But whatever cut or color you decide to put it in
It’s still got that same ugly skin

CHORUS

Well you can plaster it over so it looks like it’s brand new
Cover up the dirt with an attractive shade of blue
But you’ve got to rebuild it, there’s nothing else to do
The whole thing is rotten through and through

CHORUS
F/C/G

Am/C/Dm/G
Am/C/Dm/G
Am/C/Dm/G
C/G

Am/G/Am
Am/G/Am
C/G
Am/G/Am
Am/G/Am
C/G