Return of the Postmoderns

Return of the Postmoderns -- Better Than Ezra
Words and Music by Kevin Griffin
from "Friction, Baby"
(tabbed by randell@heinous.music.uiowa.edu)



Intro/Verse riff:

e-------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------
D-----------4-4-2---2-2-0-0-0---------
A--2-2-2-2--------------------4-4-----
E-------------------------------------



Verse 1:

(riff)

Ten cent lovers

(riff)

beneath the covers

(riff)

Riding on a wet dream

	B5		D/A  G

Silver tonic free



Verse 2 (same as V1):

High stool sweet tarts

Equipped with green cards

Chomp their 401k's

Semi-chocolate brie



Break: F#5  E5



"Chorus" (Riff 2):

A5		   F#5

Digging in Los Cruces

	E5		D/A

for an army drab container

Carbon dating clothes

for the last time they were washed



Verse 3 (same as V1):

Shelby and Sheila

Onomatopoeia

Catch hang nail on Banion

Shiver Martin Sheen



Verse 4 (same):

Preschool mothers

in Technicolor  <-- another cool distorted lyric (tm) :)

Are fire bombing Dresden

Stanton, Harry Dean



"Chorus" (riff 2):

Feeding line caught tuna

to a neutered Bodhisattva

Writhing peached for the President

Out on the White House lawn

Beating Herbert Hoover

With a leather tipped Pinada

Thorn and Katy drink the milk

tinted Amerasian Green



Verse riff and end with chorus riff twice:

RETURN, RETURN, RETURN, etc... :)