Shed Some Skin Tab par Slow Gherkin

C                G
It's Christmas Day in gay Paris
Am             Em
Not so gay for Galen Z
F                  C
Sixteen hours in a sweaty kitchen
    G               G7
For money makes minimum wage look good
C            G
Six a.m. on the subway
Am                    Em
Stop station, through the doorway
F                          C
Crowds of people standing, yelling, screaming
G                          G7
"What's going on? Oh no, I must be dreaming"

Am                    Em                   Am
And the city forgets, they didn't even perceive
Am                              F          G
And the trains keep blowing up, week after week

C                   G
Franzel's traveled wide and far
Am              Em
Back from the U.S.S.R. 
F                       C
Went there to pursue a lifelong calling
G                            G7
You found only numb toes and helpless longing
C                   G
Now you're back at home today
Am              Em
Back in the old U.S.A. 
F                         C
Scoop up handfuls of your native dust
G                          G7
And cross the country in a Greyhound bus

Am                      Em                       Am
Another failed attempt, it's no use trying to pretend
Am                              F         G
Now you're right back where you started again

Am    F
I saw what's wrong
      C             G
But I didn't see how
Am     F  
I saw, I saw
C                  G
We're all grown up now

C                  G
Today's your twentieth birthday
Am                 Em
Alone you walk the banks of Maine
F                             C
As time runs out to write the second verse of
G                 G7
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
C                        G
While you're gone, we'll be here still
Am                Em
Just beyond those distant hills
F                         C
Could be that you got the upper hand
         G                G7
When you left this rustic never-never land

Am                                      Em            Am
And my breathing constricts, I feel the walls closing in
Am                                 F              G
Could it be that finally we're all shedding some skin?