Am D
You were throwing your shoes right up over the wire
G C
You were rolling out Easy Bake Ovens and tires
Am D
Another whole day on the Bucks County plain
G
Clouds rolling in, it's feeling like rain
Cm F
Back in the yards and the woods by the pool
Bb Eb
The leaves were on fire when I came home from school
Cm F
Singing a song that I wrote in myself
Bb
Singing that I could be something else
Ebm G#
You were throwing your shoes right up over the wire
C# F#
I was sitting there watching on half-buried tires
Ebm G#
Scratching on sidewalks with fingers and stone
C#
Waiting for time, feeling alone
F#m B
Taking out pins in the cushions inside
E A
The rain falling down on the telephone wire
F#m B E
Falling farther and farther away
Am D
Those were the days of the model airplanes
G C
Shooting up rockets for neighborhood fame
Am D
You on the ground, the remote in your hand
G
I was sinking on down, my feet in the sand
Cm F
The rock and roll babysitter's tales
Bb Eb
Of nights with the boys running off of the rails
Cm F
They'd spend the whole night on abandoned farms
Bb
Burning up in each other's arms
Ebm G#
You were throwing your shoes right up over the wire
C# F#
You were setting those Easy Bake Ovens on fire
Ebm G#
I was carving my name on a chalkboard with nails
C#
Waiting for somebody else to be there
F#m B
Outside, the dim suburban homes
E A
With their lawns full of ashtrays and their buckets of phones
F#m B E
Ringing off mothers in houses all day
Am D
Back then we had to be cool
G C
But nobody taught me the rules
Am D
So I just wrote it all down
G
On the inside of my fast food paperboard crown
Cm F
Riding bikes before I learned about brakes
Bb Eb
Around and around those cul-de-sac lanes
Cm F
The teens rolling by in their giant green cars
Bb
Driving like rain, they were kissing like stars
Ebm G#
You were throwing your shoes right up over the wire
C# F#
You were building those Tinkertoy castle empires
Ebm G#
Melting your crayons over tables of flame
C#
I was feeling alone, I was feeling insane
F#m B
Dad took a picture on August the ninth
E A
Of us with the newspaper and the headline
F#m B E Esus E
'Ford Steps Up; Nixon Resigns'