If you need it, you should come and take it well you could come and take it too If you want it, you should come and grab it you could come or make me blue I always feel when the night is dark my humpy bumpy anxious heart I'm always scared when the dogs start to bark and the moon is staring at the stars ooh moonshine ooo starlight oooh no time to waste It always hits me hard in my guts that feeling from when I was a kid corrupted by the wind in the willows floating down that river stream and you can never take that feeling out of me no matter how much you pay me and you can never take that river creature out of my brain If you need it, you should come and take it well you could come and take it too If you want it, you should come and grab it you could come or make me blue If you need me you know where to find me I'm out here looking at the moon If you need me just follow that river 'cause I'll be waiting for you ooh moonshine ooo starlight oooh no time to waste

DAGD This night or the night before that I don’t really know which night You had your 30th birthday but you were far so away So I’m sending this song to you my brother Roberto Andrés as a birthday gift to listen to now that you’re old DAGA I wanna follow you up on my squeaky bike wherever you go on the road tonight Underneath that bridge where we sat in the night who listens to the waves coming crashing now Noone plays guitar in the skate park now it shouldn’t be up to just you to make the city sound but noone does things like that noone records a whole album in a day on a bike ride but we did and I’m so glad we did I wanna follow you up on my squeaky bike wherever you go on the road tonight Remember how We met at that open stage remember all the times we played together you rocked your looper and I rocked my beautiful hair Now you’re rocking the streets of Berlin and the streets of Berlin is rocking you too I wish I had a rocketship to go to whenever I wanted to see you I wanna follow you up on my squeaky bike wherever you go on the road tonight I wanna go to the wave festival again out on Asperö island in the middle of the woods dance in the pitch black night, getting high, getting lost, getting sweaty and good and I wanna run through the streets of Fürth getting soaked in the rain and dying of stage freight I wanna sit with your grumpy cat in your bedroom and singing about that freedom light I wanna busk on that wooden bridge in bavaria and make cute tourist girls smile I wanna go the comic store for hours and hours because I never get bored I wanna make stupid films where we walk through parks singing with our guitars and I wanna wish you a happy birthday bro I wanna follow you up on my squeaky bike wherever you go on the road tonight

D G A A If you're tired of working overtime for someone else's dream Go pick up a guitar and go busking in the street and scream your heart out sing it like you feel it Why do you need to work for money when we can help each other out? Why do you scream and shout inside? You could be screaming that shit out loud So if the rent's too high, fucking occupy! Let's dumpster dive for furniture and apple pie If we get some more friends we could start an organic farm somewhere And we wouldn't need to work for your money because we'll help each other out we don't scream and shout inside because we're screaming that shit out loud So if I help you and you help me we could love each other, we could set ourselves free and we wouldn't need your petty excuse of a society NEVER And we wouldn't need to work for your money because we'll help each other out we don't scream and shout inside because we're screaming that shit out loud

Capo 4th C major 7 Dm 7 Horses run through the valley At 4 am We wake up and walk the winding path from our tent down to the river F G C and You jump in without a bathing suit G the river is oh so dark C major 7 And it runs through the night like a black cat F* Like a vicious kind of forecast Dm G of suburbs and police helicopters Dm G You reached for her hand but you dropped her Am While looking at your phone F and soon these fields will be full of shining hotels E7 where you can watch the world slowly die from a fancy rooftop bar Cmaj7 Am Wildfires paint these skies as you drive there in your car Dm7 Plastic lights in all colors that flicker on and off and on and off Cmaj7 And wish you a merry christmas Dmaj7 This is where he goes Cmaj7 To play the black keys for money Dm G But he keeps his memory close Am of that night when the horses came E It will make him lose hos confidence Dm7 The audience cries out for Billie Holiday E7 But complain about strange fruit F G C You jumped in without a bathing suit G F G C Am Up on the hill where poppies grow, we sit and watch the city glow, brighter than the stars F G Am That's when I tape feathers to my heart

A D E A? sorry man for taking time to answer you again I know Im such a lazy friend your last message really made me smile I’ve been thinking about that for a while I need to get a license to drive we could drive everywhere we’re going to France man, we’re going to Spain up the coast and stuff trying hard to breathe through our corona masks I know you bought a midi keyboard we can go tropic on those vibes all the sweaty french girls will scream out into the night smash the stage, never know why give you weird drugs and never face reality again my hair will fuck my face cause that’s how I roll I don’t need no bandana like that guy in Dire Straits to look cool you know I don’t need no hotel, no bar or no pool just give me a tattoo in every town we pass Bilbao, Bayonne and La Rochelle give me a kitchen floor and a blanket and I sleep fine on the way down we will meet all these cool bands we’ll be shitting our pants with anxiety we’ll be running the streets and I will be blaming you for a bag of oranges and what did you know? and what did you do? D E A D? and you disappear in the morning with your new found love Johnny from Paris with his pullover sweaters and cool taste in old black and white movies and that necklace with an octopus he got in Port Louis I will try to perform on my own but it will be a comedy of sadness an empty chair and an empty mattress oh the alcohol and the madness 20 years on the road looking for my long fingered partner your picture on the piano with a rose and my finger on the trigger every night I will do a cover of that song you wrote in the gas station in San Sebastian in 1991 I will scream out your name in the middle of the night, Every night I will scream out your name, in the middle of the night in the middle of Europe somewhere I will cry out your name in an empty parking lot A D E A I will settle down with a goat and a distillery machine in west ukraine broken hearted in a village known for its yearly pumpkin growing contest and the rest of my life D E A D I will do whatever it takes I will do whatever it takes, man I will do whatever it takes I will do whatever it takes to win that contest

C G F F Life is short when you die at 24 and now these racist fuckheads try to blame immigration for some homophobes knife in your liver sometimes I wake up crying, shivering because you bled to death that night in the hospital Am F F G Can you hear from the other side of eternity my heart beat? If you could just feel what I'm feeling tonight then I'd be feeling alright 'cause you'd be feeling alive F but there's no turning back G nah you'll never be back C G F F It was you and me and Katrin almost ten years ago we worked to keep the youth clubs from shutting down in a torn apart society where everyone's afraid of each other there's 50 people on this tram but everyone's sitting alone Am F F G Can you hear from the other side of eternity my heart beat? If you could just feel what I'm feeling tonight then I'd be feeling alright 'cause you'd be feeling alive F but there's no turning back G nah you'll never be back F G And now you're alone again End on Am.

A A D This graveyard town wasn't built for me A E although I got to know your streets A D E E dark smoke and all the lights from the bridge lights in all colors and the fish and the sea and the factories But all the fireworks on new years eve hit me in the face that's when I started to bleed red snow on my tongue, my guitar on my back I felt like Jacques Brel, I felt like Jacques waiting for the bus lighting my cigarette rush Started sleeping on the kitchen floors started taking all these midnight walks get this hair right out of my face the world is an open stage all the pain all the colors they go down the drain you must drink it if you wanna keep being sane I played the churches and I played the punk clubs I played the prison and I played the crowded pups I played the streets, screamed out your name under the crowd, under the moon I was drunk, I was barely alive and soon my fingers bled I played the piano and I cried in my bed I played weddings and I was shit scared of it all I got my shit together and started to care and care and care and more But all the fireworks on new years eve hit me in the face that's when I started to bleed red snow on my tongue, my guitar on my back I felt like Jacques Brel, I felt like Jacques waiting for the bus lighting my cigarette rush D Get up on stage you have 7 minutes only E7 I know a story about a bird man and it is very lonely

Tonight we almost got killed in Kortedala Torg because they thought we were civilian cops, we just wanted to get high. The day after, trying to flee from the rat race, got stopped by the border with an expired passport that they used to show their ownership of me, I had to go the police. But I don't belong to this boat full of vending machines, I just wanted to afford a meal and so did you grey haired lady with cowboy boots, I see you don't belong here either, but god damn our masters, I wish spaceships could fly faster, I wish they could blast us out in space time, I wish my backpack was tied to my back so I wouldn't lose my cinnamon buns, I can never get convinced that ignorance is a bliss when listening to Kimya Dawson, I remember I'm a speck of dust inside i giants eye, but at the same time that makes me feel awesome! They say punk has turned into merchandise, but we don't have credit cards - we have knives! And someone said don't walk home, get you a cab and get up for work in the morning, when you reach the dark parts of that old town you fear the motorcycle sounds. Someone said you're gonna get fired for doing whatever you want all of the time, what are you even gonna do there? You've been chasing that sunset all of your life and when you die you will have lived a 1000 times more, so don't let them tell you that the Pacific is way too big for a raft, because they haven't even tasted the night, god damn our masters! I wish spaceships could fly faster!

E A F# B No child should never have to see land mines dressed as teddy bears moms and dads killed by dirty drinking water there's conflict on every border Corporations of the western world copyrights on seeds and medications while people are dying from treatable diseases privilieged assholes preach about Jesus making bombs that can destroy the whole world Poisoned rivers runs like veins through our planet wildlife traded for this months budget there's a disease in their heads I don't doubt it E B A B In fact I wish it's no treatable and I wish that you could die from greed and I wish I was drunk and didn't feel and I just wish that it wasn't for real E E E E E A F# B And my grandma is dying now she says she's wanna end it right now Put a needle right through her heart so she'll never have to feel again It's beyond our dignity to fade away in a hospital bed amputating organ after organ until there's just nothing left... E B A B Now I wish I was drunk in Havana or I wish I could travel back in time or I wish some god just gave me a sign or I wish that we could live as one I just wish that we could live as one

A D E A? sorry man for taking time to answer you again I know Im such a lazy friend your last message really made me smile I’ve been thinking about that for a while I need to get a license to drive we could drive everywhere we’re going to France man, we’re going to Spain up the coast and stuff trying hard to breathe through our corona masks I know you bought a midi keyboard we can go tropic on those vibes all the sweaty french girls will scream out into the night smash the stage, never know why give you weird drugs and never face reality again my hair will fuck my face cause that’s how I roll I don’t need no bandana like that guy in Dire Straits to look cool you know I don’t need no hotel, no bar or no pool just give me a tattoo in every town we pass Bilbao, Bayonne and La Rochelle give me a kitchen floor and a blanket and I sleep fine on the way down we will meet all these cool bands we’ll be shitting our pants with anxiety we’ll be running the streets and I will be blaming you for a bag of oranges and what did you know? and what did you do? D E A D? and you disappear in the morning with your new found love Johnny from Paris with his pullover sweaters and cool taste in old black and white movies and that necklace with an octopus he got in Port Louis I will try to perform on my own but it will be a comedy of sadness an empty chair and an empty mattress oh the alcohol and the madness 20 years on the road looking for my long fingered partner your picture on the piano with a rose and my finger on the trigger every night I will do a cover of that song you wrote in the gas station in San Sebastian in 1991 I will scream out your name in the middle of the night, Every night I will scream out your name, in the middle of the night in the middle of Europe somewhere I will cry out your name in an empty parking lot A D E A I will settle down with a goat and a distillery machine in west ukraine broken hearted in a village known for its yearly pumpkin growing contest and the rest of my life D E A D I will do whatever it takes I will do whatever it takes, man I will do whatever it takes I will do whatever it takes to win that contest

C Am F G You’re just a little piece of garbage In an everexpanding universe And you are right You will never be enough And just imagine if you were What kind of an absurd scary power trip is that? Keep being nice To neighbors, plants and bees and mice Let useless weeds grow in your garden Not just the tasty fruits you like Ride your bike everywhere And when the rain is pouring down Save worms from pools on the ground So they don’t drown And they can dig new holes Because worms think holes are really cool And you are cool too For helping them out Now you are connected And keep connecting With people all around this planet We live in the future And there’s nothing we can’t do But we can’t do it alone One day you will be buried in a hole And worms will eat your face And your face will be the soil again And from the soil will grow a little flower A snail will eat that flower And a rat will eat that snail And a cat will eat that rat And a car will kill that cat later in the afternoon Because not everyone rides a bike And maybe we are doomed Maybe we are doomed

CAPO ? C F G C Sunshine on my balcony sunshine in me birds singing from the treetops making me happy make a proper income can afford a yellow shirt go out dancing on a friday family vacation by the coast paying with my credit card get a haircut if I like someones begging outside the grocery store I ride there on my bike Am Am F G hello hello what would jesus do? would he buy cheerios when someone can’t afford food no what kind of person am I? I’m your avocado man C F G C when I was young I was so sure about myself I played folkpunk and screamed at my friends But what would our anarchist community do the moment some fascists just armed themselves I don’t know I buy tacos for friday, I take a run in the woods read about power yoga sometimes I don’t know what to do F G C what’s it all about man? Do you have a plan ’cause apparently I dont’ know shit shitfuck, shitfuck me F G C what’s it all about man? does anybody have a plan? people don’t seem to bother but I try to bother you I’m your avocado man F G C Am See you on the flip side See you when you come down here tumbling falling helplessly into my arms smash into the ground, Im your avocado man

D G A D ..A? Let's have dark times I need to turn off the alarm in my head now throw my phone into a hole and never get a new one go where police helicopters never gone before go where the wild rivers roar Go where wild boars stares up to the sky for the comfort of stars see them shine in your eyes now the lights from your screen but I remember your thighs now in a hotel room in Greece playing cards on the balcony They don't show your smile riding that red bike in the movies but they should the night the dog chased us down and it almost killed us we were shit scared in the dark we never returned those bikes right They didn't have lights on the road from Zakynthos to Kalamaki but I got a feeling they have it now fancy hotels where you can watch the world die from a safe distance but I don't want no safe distance from the dangers I don't want no safe distance from you Be brave get out, search for the melody the mountains are singing with the birds and the fish in the sea draw silly creatures in your notebook because without you they just can not be the stories we make up in the night in the tent aren't worth any money So let's have dark times I need the rain and the thunder and I need to get lost and I need to wonder about things I know nothing about There's so many things I know nothing about