Like Egypt Was

by Michael Penn
from 'Resigned'

As perceived by Paul Furedi

(first verse sung over sample)

           B7   E
I shook up-on a bridge

     B7           E
On a fault on the north ridge

        B7               E            B
Where I placed a picture of you on my Etch-A-Sketch



Bb5
(band enters)

  Eb5/Bb         Bb5
I give you now a river

Bb7no3      Eb/Bb
It is too a river though

    Ebm/Bb
You may not know

    Bb5
But it is so

Eb5/Bb       Bb5
And I do not suspect

Bb7no3            Eb/Bb
It's the kind you would expect

   Ebm/Bb
In this respect

     Bb5          C7
It's concrete and cats

     C7    F
Like Egypt was


         C7        F7
I'm on a three day binge

       C7      F7
On the lunatic fringe

     Gm            F             C7
Palm Desert to the Valley of the Antelope


Where you wore colognes
Made of human pheromones
And I only want to be inside your envelope

I'll take you to a river
It is too a river though
You may not know
But it is so
I give you now a river
Not the kind that you'd expect
In this respect
It's concrete and cats

Like Egypt was

I'm on a three day binge
On the lunatic fringe
From Riverside all the way to Livermore
The scent she makes will now emanate

      Gm          F               C7          F
Until everyone in range collapses to the flo--or

    C7       F
And men will toil

   C7       F
In suits of foil

   Bb                F               C               F   C                
As they explain that this girl was a-nointed with an o---il

I give you now the river
It is too a river though
You may not know
But it is so
And I do not suspect
It's the kind that you'd expect
In this respect
It's concrete and cats

Like Egypt was
Like Egypt was
Like Egypt was