Stomping Ground Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[D]

[Verse 1]
Cypress trees and [D]recipes
from cooking magazines
[Bm]Children with bloody knees,
fathers with companies
[D]Palm trees and make -believe
in the houses of our dreams
[Bm]We clench our perfect teeth
[Bb]Wait for our turn to leave
[D]Cuts in the asphalt down
the block
Teenagers in the parking lot[Bm]s
And the parents never [Bb]make
them [D]stop
Disappear into cigarette smoke
Every kid's gotta find a
way to [Bm]cope[Bsus4]
[Bm]Until they [Bb]all lose [A]hope
[D]Mothers send their other lives
Bottle up what's real inside
And the [Bm]fathers [Bsus4]read their books
about Je[F#]sus Christ
[Bbaug]When the chil[D]dren go to bed alone
By the light of a telephone
I [Em]wonder [E]if they'll [Bb]ever know
[D]Ooh
I'll take in the group disease
The spreading chestnut tree
[Bm]And make our wounds believe
[Bb]They'll turn to warm relief
[D]Blood cuts and the muscles seize
And we forget how to breathe
[Bm]But we all look so at ease
[Bb]It's the part of the life we lead
Mom[D]s and dads living worlds apart
Kids steal in the shopping carts
[Bm]And the teachers just tell
them [Bb]get real smart
[A]But[D] we learn when the
bottles broke
Everyone's got our own
way to [Bm]cope
Until they [Bb]all just [D]choke
Mothers send their other lives
But our love was real inside
And [Bm]the fathers [Bsus4]read their books
[B]about Je[F#]sus Christ
[Bbaug]When the chil[D]dren go to bed alone
By the light of the telephone
I [Em]wonder [E]if they'll [Bb]ever know
Oo[D]h, there's a whole
world out of bounds
At the edge of the [A]stomping [D]ground
[Bm]Getting lost is still allowed
Getting [Bb]lost is still allowed
[D]There's a whole world out of bounds
At the edge of this dumping ground
Getting [Bm]lost is still allowed
[F#]Getting lost is still allowe[Bbaug]d[D]
Allowed
Oh, you're the descendant
of the lights
Bottled up what's real inside
And the [Bm]fathers read their
books about Je[Bbaug]sus
God hates when the [D]children
don't have a pillow
By the light of a telephone
I [E]wonder if we'll ever [Bb]know
[Gm][Bbaug]
[D]There's a whole world's out of bounds
At the edge of the stomping ground
[Bm]Getting those just still [D]allowed[Gm]
[D]There's a whole world out of bounds
At the ends of this dumping ground
Getting lost is [Bsus4]still allowed
Get[F#]ting [Bb]lost is still allowed