Biography:
Silver Jews was an American indie rock band from New York City. The band's earliest incarnation was the college band Ectoslavia, formed by future Pavement founders Bob Nastanovich, Stephen Malkmus and frontman David Berman at the University of Virginia in 1989. An exercise in joyous noise, the band disbanded after graduation and the three friends moved to New York to take up various jobs - Nastanovich, a bus driver, and Berman and Malkmus, art museum security guards.
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Other songs:
- Advice To The Graduate
- American Water
- Black And Brown Blues
- Blue Arrangements
- Candy Jail
- Death Of An Heir Of Sorrows
- Federal Dust
- Friday Night Fever
- I Remember Me
- Inside The Golden Days Of Missing You
- My Pillow Is The Threshold
- New Orleans
- Pretty Eyes
- San Francisco B C
- Self
- Slow Education
- Smith And Jones Forever
- Tennessee
- Trains Across The Sea
- We Could Be Looking For The Same Thing
- We Could Belong To Each Other
- What Is Not But Could Be If
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Pretty Eyes - Silver Jews
The Natural Bridge (1996)
G D
Everybody wants perspective from a hill
Am G G/F#
but everybody's wants can't make it past the window sill
G
I can see you in yourt room at night
D
the pictures on your walls
Am
little forest scenes and high school halloweens
G
but they don't come to you
G/F#
they don't come to you at all
G
All houses dream in blueprints
D
our house dreams so hard
Am
Outside you can see my shoeprints
G G/F#
I've been dreaming in your yard
E Am
One of these days these days will end
E Am
Thru the kitchen window the light will bend
E Am
You'll be carving a pumpkin with a knife
E
when someone at the table says
G G/F#
"that's not what I call a life!"
G D
The elephants are so ashamed of their size
Am G G/F#
hosing down I tell them "you got pretty eyes"
G D
Out in the backyard I used to make like I was a cowboy
Am G G/F#
I'd set my dog before a hoop and say "now boy, now boy!"
E
When the governer's heart fails
Am
the state bird falls from its branch
E Am
Icicles on hell's higher hills
E Am
Meanwhile back home at the ranch
E
I still get up early in the morning
G G/F#
and I never knew a better place
G D
I believe the stars are the headlights of angels
Am
driving from heaven to save us to save us
Won't you look at the sky?
G G/F#
They're driving from heaven into our eyes
G D
and though final words are so hard to devise
Am G G/F#
I promise that I'll always remember your pretty eyes your pretty eyes
The Natural Bridge (1996)
G D
Everybody wants perspective from a hill
Am G G/F#
but everybody's wants can't make it past the window sill
G
I can see you in yourt room at night
D
the pictures on your walls
Am
little forest scenes and high school halloweens
G
but they don't come to you
G/F#
they don't come to you at all
G
All houses dream in blueprints
D
our house dreams so hard
Am
Outside you can see my shoeprints
G G/F#
I've been dreaming in your yard
E Am
One of these days these days will end
E Am
Thru the kitchen window the light will bend
E Am
You'll be carving a pumpkin with a knife
E
when someone at the table says
G G/F#
"that's not what I call a life!"
G D
The elephants are so ashamed of their size
Am G G/F#
hosing down I tell them "you got pretty eyes"
G D
Out in the backyard I used to make like I was a cowboy
Am G G/F#
I'd set my dog before a hoop and say "now boy, now boy!"
E
When the governer's heart fails
Am
the state bird falls from its branch
E Am
Icicles on hell's higher hills
E Am
Meanwhile back home at the ranch
E
I still get up early in the morning
G G/F#
and I never knew a better place
G D
I believe the stars are the headlights of angels
Am
driving from heaven to save us to save us
Won't you look at the sky?
G G/F#
They're driving from heaven into our eyes
G D
and though final words are so hard to devise
Am G G/F#
I promise that I'll always remember your pretty eyes your pretty eyes
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