The Tame The Half Born

The Tame, The Half-Born, The Wild and You

Ron Hawkins

album: The Secret of my Excess

transcribed by Kevin Cumming

intro: G Am Em C x2

NOTE: When playing Am in the intro, start off with the B string open and

then hammer on the 1st fret for the same sound that Ron has.

If Carolyn called me up today I'd hang up the phone and walk away

It's not that I don't care anymore but time changes locks on a lot of

doors

And I know what you're thinking and it's true

Sometimes there is nothing you can do

But there's a time that I recall a purple street in Lisbon

She was speaking dreams to me and I thought I was listening

But I was fifteen yards away before I felt the distance

She cried in Augusta street and stared into the windows

And I know what she's thinking and it's true

Sometimes there is nothing she can do

Carolyn is tamed...

All those years and all those tears

Cuddling her insecure

And shaking like a child and feeling helpless

But maybe I share the blame

Peter has a fan club he's a whiskey hating Christian

And he's in love with everyone as long as they keep listening

And there's a hole in my old faith where he belongs

But, the whole of me has never been that strong

Peter is half-born...

With one foot in and one foot out

A princess on a barstool

Anarcho- Commun- Liberat- ingratiating stranger to me now

 

 

Close friends and passerby love affairs and suicides

Sex and drugs and crash n' burn decisions politics and prostitute

religions

Fucking at the movies or fighting in the street

Christopher's a scapegoat cause he lives like a poem

And they want explanations but I just want to know him

Not for what he claims to be or what they say he isn't

Just because he's got the balls to make his own decisions

And sometimes the pain he's feeling is so real

Sometimes that is all I need to feel

Christopher is wild...

With fire-escape guitar afflictions

Different lives but shared addictions

Late night taxi, Frank Black happy birthdays

And blood-pact butchers knives

Amsterdam, the sex museums and the New York City subway

Vancouver in November, and Montreal on Monday

We'll get a fix in Union Square we'll drop at C.B.G.B.'s

And if we can't find salvation there, we'll stay home and watch the t.v.

And I'll be your disciple if you'll be mine

And we'll make love in the moaning summertime

Cause you are beautiful...

Chords:

G 320033

Am x02210

Em 022000

C x32010

F 133211

D xx0232