A5
Mama died young giving birth to a son in a home for wayward girls

Papa was a sidewalk, soapbox preacher looking forward to the end of the world
     D5
Every Friday night he'd pick Jesus a fight down at the local pool hall
A5
Racking up souls, condemning all those caught behind the eightball
        E
He said "I preach the light, the light shows the way, don't ever trust what the government say
        A5                  (mute)
we never walked on the moon, Elvis ain't dead, you ain't goin' crazy, it's all in your head"

[Verse 2]
A5
Lucy was a messed up, dressed up waitress with a slightly tarnished heart of gold

She wasn't half bad for a new step mama, as far as step mama's go
     D5
Daddy knew she was the one as he baked in the sun in a parking lot preaching the truth

Up shot her hand and she cried, oh man "I feel it, yes, I feel it, I do"
     E
It's been revealed to me down deep in my soul there were two shooters on the grassy knoll
        A5                  (mute)
We never walked on the moon, Elvis ain't dead, you ain't goin' crazy, it's all in your head

"Let us sing..."

D                A
It's all interpretation
   G                        D               A
to find the truth you gotta read between the lines
     D                A   D
Work out your own salvation
     A              G
that narrow path is hard to define
         D                                    A C D A (after 1st Chorus)
Heaven's more than a place it's a state of mind

A5
In his quest for truth, Daddy was moved by the spirit to take up a snake

In a moment of doubt the venom turned out stronger than Daddy's faith
    D5
I'll never forget in his dying breath the last words that he said
         A5                  (mute)
"We never walked on the moon, Elvis ain't dead, you ain't goin' crazy, it's all in your head"

[Chorus]
            A C D A (Repeat & fade)
State of Mind