Rotary Hotel (Matt Murphy)
by the Flashing Lights


Intro (also played between the chorus and second verse):
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Verse 1:
       Em       D                B
It's a long way up to the rotary hotel
    G                       D
But that's where all of our dreams fell
Through the torn curtains
                          A
I saw that nothing is for certain
   Em       D                        A
As I walked down to that sweet brown lake
                      G
I saw that all of our mistakes
D                    A
Lied in the surface about to break

Chorus:
    B         B7
And all these rows of afternoon
G#m     B                        G
Shadows melt with morning bright arrows
    A                 B
The rows of afternoon shadows
B7                       G#m
Melt with morning bright arrows
    B                         G
And I lost the fight with the battle
   A                      B
So won't you come to help me this time?

Fill

Verse 2:
Em         D
Out by the shipwrecked academy
B         G
I had the sense kicked out of me
    D
And I lost all of my feelings
                              A             Em
Maybe that's where all of our dealings went sour
D
Right on the hour
    A                            G
The traffic slowed and magically golden
D                       A
Horns hit the window as you walked out

       Em       D                B
It's a long way up to the rotary hotel
    G                       D
But that's where all of our dreams fell
Through the torn curtains
                          A
I saw that nothing is for certain

Chorus:
   B         B7
As all these rows of afternoon
G#m     B                        G
Shadows melt with morning bright arrows
    A                 B
The rows of afternoon shadows
B7                       G#m
Melt with morning bright arrows
    B                         G
And I lost the fight with the battle
    A                G
And everything was unravelled
   A                         G
Oh I lost the fight with the battle
   A                      B
So won't you come to help me this time?

Ending:
               G      A
Oh it's a long way up
               B
Oh it's a long way
               G      A
Oh it's a long way up
               B
Oh it's a long way
   G                          A
Oh I was checking out of this lonely room
     G                                A
When I got started watching something on the tube
    G                   A   B
Now I'm still lying here