The Wasp

[Intro/Verse 1]
[Em]
I want to tell you about Texas Radio and the big beat.
It comes out of the Virginia swamps,
cool and slow with rugged precision,
with a backbeat narrow and hard to master.

[Verse 2]
[Em]
Some call it heavenly in its brilliance,
others, mean and rueful of the Western dream.
I love the friends I have gathered together on this thin raft.
We have constructed pyramids in honour of our escaping.
This is the land where the Pharaoh died.

[Bridge/Interlude]
[E] [F] [E] [F] [G] [E] [F#] [E] [F#] [A] [A#] [B]
[E] [F#] [E] [F#] [E] [F#] [G#] [G] [F#] [E] [Em]

[Verse 3]
[Em]
The negroes in the forest, brightly feathered, and they are 
saying:
"Forget the night! Live with us in forests of azure,
out here on the perimeter, there are no stars.
Out here we is stoned immaculate."

[Chorus 1]
[E]           [F#]       [E]             [F#]                   [G]
Listen to this I'll tell you about the heartaches;
[E]            [F#]     [E]              [F#]        [A]    [A#]   [B]
I'll tell you about heartache and the loss of God.
[E]             [F#]          [E]             [F#]
I'll tell you about the hopeless night,
[C#]       [A]            [C#]        [A]
the meager food my soul forgot,
[F#]                                                     [G#]     
tell you about the maiden with the wrought i - ron soul.
[G] [F#] [E]      [Em]

[Verse 4]
[Em]
I want to tell you about Texas Radio and the big beat,
soft driven, slow and mad like some new language.

[Chorus 2]
[E]           [F#]       [E]             [F#]       [G]
Listen to this I'll tell you about Texas;
[E]            [F#]    [E]       [F#]  [A]    [A#]  [B]
I'll tell you about Texas       Ra - di - o.
[E]             [F#]          [E]             [F#]
I'll tell you about the hopeless night,
[C#]    [A]             [C#]            [A]
the wanderin' the Western dream,
[F#]                                                     [G#]     
tell you about the maiden with the wrought i - ron soul
[G] [F#] [E]      [Em]