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