Em                   G
The flags on main street say
        D
You are one
     Am        C    G   D
Are you one of us?


[VERSE 2]

     Em                  G
They hang in the exhaled air
   D                     Am
Of three thousand people sleeping
C         G                      D        Am
Breathing deep, their eyes going round


[CHORUS]

   C              G
Coding messages
     D              Am
Shedding messages
    C                 B7
The night before a parade


[INSTRUMENTAL]
C  Em  G  D
Am  C  G  D


[VERSE 3]

   Em             G
Coyotes are lying down 
        D
In their dens
      Am       C       G   D
In their dens asleep


[VERSE 4]

    Em                  G
The half of each bird's brain
     D           Am        C
That sleeps remains asleep
    G      D
The corn repeats


[CHORUS]

      Am   C
Are you coding messages
      G     D              Am
Are you burning messages
  C        B7
Tonight before a parade


[INSTRUMENTAL] 

C   Em  G  D
Am  C  G  D
Em  G  D  Am
C   G  D
Am  C  G   D


[VERSE 5]

    Em               G
The ghost inside the hall
D                  Am
Moves from door to door 
C              G            D
Once again waiting, once again come


[VERSE 6]

        Em             G
There's no more movies hung
     D       Am
On a sheet in the park
       C                 G           D
In the school parking lot until next year


[BRIDGE]

  Am             C          G
Your children will become
             D
Strangers to you
          Am            C          G
They will love a picture of you 
  G                          D
More than you, every time you speak