Dog Prophecies

Intro 
D Bm F#m  D Bm F#m 


[Verso 1]
 
   D                         Bm 
My mother's in the garden, my brother's in the yard 
      F#m 
Dad's under the car, swearing at God 
       D                      Bm 
In the late July evening, I'm watching the sky 
F# 
Usher my grandfather one last goodbye 
 


[Pré-Refrão]
 
       D                         Bm 
As the pink fades to orange, I am wishing once more 
            F#m 
I were nine and that time were a friend, one of mine 
     D                  Bm                   F# 
I go (ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh) 
 


[Verso 2]
 
         D                       Bm 
But now, who am I kidding? Never had one of those 
  F#m 
I swirl in the backyard, I run with the ghosts 
       D                         Bm 
As the neighbor's dog barking his prophetic spout: 
      F#m 
"Your youth is a crown that you're doomed to lose now" 
        D                             Bm 
And the war's on the home front, it's coming by twos 
       F#m 
As the late July heat crashes over you 
       D                         Bm 
And if love had a spark, it went out on the Fourth 
       F#m 
It was buried in the backyard, why carry the torch? 
 


[Pré-Refrão]
 
       D                                  Bm 
Now it roams through the garden where the vegetables grow 
       F#m 
And my mother, the gardener, where she will stop 
  D                            Bm                  F# 
I don't know (ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh) 
        D                      Bm                  F# 
I don't know (ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh) 
 


[Refrão]
 
D                          Bm 
(Heavyweight, take a break, take a load, take it off) 
F#m 
(Gravity, gravity, have some grace on me) 
D                          Bm 
(Heavyweight, take a break, take a load, take it off) 
F#m 
(Gravity, gravity, have some grace on me) 
D                         Bm 
Heavyweight, take a break, take a load, take it off 
F#m 
Gravity, gravity, have some grace on me 
D                         Bm 
Heavyweight, take a break, take a load, take it off 
F#m 
Gravity, gravity, have some grace on me 
 


[Pós-Refrão]
 
D                 Bm                F# 
(Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh) 
D                 Bm                F# 
(Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh) 
 


[Verso 3]
 
       D                    Dm          Bm 
Now my brother, he's a good one, he was born a grown man 
     F#m 
Knee stains of cut grass, still he's coming in last 
    D                            Bm 
Too soft in the middle, the town turns up its nose 
          F#m                                                   D 
"Can you see through my riddle?" to the child still wearing his clothes 
Bm          F#m 
  (Can you get close?) 
                 D 
Still wearing his clothes 
Bm          F#m 
  (Can you get close?) 
 


[Ponte]
 
    D                       Dm 
The Midwest has fallen, Downtown wants it back 
          F#m 
Hope they have a cement that can seal up the cracks 
        D                        Bm 
Take my stone fruit and thunder, lock it up tight 
       F#m 
But no city street show can block out the sight 
 


[Pré-Refrão]
 
      D                      Bm                      F#m 
Of my mother, my brother, my father, and that late July night 
      D                        Bm                          F#m 
Of my mother, my brother, the gardener, and that late July night 
 


[Refrão]
 
D                           Bm 
(Heavyweight, take a break, take a load, take it off) 
F#m 
(Gravity, gravity, have some grace on me) 
D                           Bm 
(Heavyweight, take a break, take a load, take it off) 
F#m 
(Heavyweight, take a break, take a break) 
N.C. 
(Take a break) 
 


[Refrão]
 
D                         Bm 
Heavyweight, take a break, take a load, take it off 
F#m 
Gravity, gravity, have some grace on me 
D                         Bm 
Heavyweight, take a break, take a load, take it off 
F#m 
Gravity, gravity, have some grace 
D                         Bm 
Heavyweight, take a break, take a load, take it off 
F#m 
Gravity, gravity, have some grace on me 
D                         Bm 
Heavyweight, take a break, take a load, take it off 
F#m 
Gravity, gravity, have some grace on me