Split Rail Fences (These Days)
C# G#
I don't know if you really want to know
F# C#
what I've been thinking about these days
C# G#
Split rail fences, for civil defenses
F# C#
trying not to rot away
C# G#
you don't have to give up what you've got
F# C#
but you've got to accept the change
C# G#
I don't know if you really want to know
G# C#
what I've been thinking about these days
[Piano vocals]
C# F/D#
daughters disappearing
F# C#
in the shadows of the state
C# F/D#
father is fearing
F# C#
the truth has come too late
C# F/D# F# C#
mother is trying to save the family name
C# G#
but I don't know if you really want to know
F# C#
what I've been thinking about these days
[ENTER KEYS]
C# G#
Lost all senses, she was defenseless
F# C#
left on the rail that day
C# G#
you don't know her name
F# C#
but can you recognize her face
C# G#
they took away her nova cane
F# C#
but the bills they left to pay
C# G#
I don't know if you really want to know
F# C#
what I've been thinking about these days
C# F/D#
father is feeling
F# C#
the little girls' pain
C# F/D#
but he can't help heal it
F# C#
cause the piggies broke the bank
C# F/D#
his fingers are clinging to
F# C#
the life that slipped away
C# G#/C
and I don't know if you really want to know
F# C#
what I've been thinking about these days
[KEYS FOR 1 MEASURE THEN DROP OUT]
C# G#
I don't know if you really want to know
F# C#
what I've been thinking about these days
C# G# F# C#
only a mother's mother can make it go away
C# G# F#
she's in trouble cause their taking away
C#
the reigns
C# G#
I don't know if you really want to know
F# C#
what I've been thinking about these days
C# F/D# F# C#
Split rail fences trying not to rot away
C# F/D# F# C#
Lower you're defenses let the people have a say
C# C# C# F/D#
I know you're not the one who put them up
F# C#
in the first place
C# G#
but I don't know if you really want to know
F# C#
what I've been thinking about these days.
C# F/D#
I don't know if you really want to know
F# C#
what I've been thinking about these days.