IMPENETRABLE Lyrics - Graham Parker

Intro: Am / Am+9 / Em7 / Dm7 (twice)

Am+9 means hammer the B, that is, Am 577555  Am+9 577557  

            Am                          

I'm in a trailer with some white trash. 

         Em7                Dm7

They're drinkin' beer and smokin' grass

            Am                        

There's a dumb chick with peroxide hair. 

           Em7       Dm7

She's got Axl Rose tattooed on her ass

          Am                          

They're holding me up like a trophy in a hall

       Em7                               Dm7

Like a deer skin or a bear's head they bought from the mall

   Am

I act like I'm with them but I'm behind a wall

Em7                   Dm7

behind a wall in the darkness

 

CHORUS

Am           Am+9   Em7                Dm7

Impenetrable             I can't get inside of it no

Am           Am+9   Em7             

Impenetrable             I ca - ah - ah - ah - an't

Am

Impenetrable  (riff)

 

I wake up in a foreign bed. 

The hotel is empty the porters are dead

The maids are diseased but the manager said: 

I'll buy you a drink in the bar pal

Because you're our last customer. You're our last hope

The city's deserted, the Government's broke

I act like I'm with him but I'm ready to bolt 

out through the door into the darkness

 

CHORUS REPEAT

 

Guitar solos over verse

 

Out in the darkness the New Year's crowd howl

It's the same celebration for 20 years now

I found myself there once alone in  a crowd

And the rules haven't changed for a minute

They're hoisting an effigy up on a pole

It's someone I remember, it's someone I know

I can't place the face but when the gasoline flows

I feel the flames lick round my ankles

 

Fmaj7     Dm7    Fmaj7   Am

Aaaah     oh     aaah    oh

Fmaj7     Dm7

Aaaah     oh

 

CHORUS REPEAT