Key:
Introduction: C
C
In the dark before the train
C
Just beyond the barn glow
Bb
Where no dissident remains
C F Eb
Driving it like we stole it
C
Snow falling, a silver poet
C
To concentrate the gallows
Bb
And subtracting us like the wolf does
C F Eb
Driving it like we stole it
C
But we're getting nearer, nearer
F
Getting near that modern spirit, yeah
C
I can hear it, hear it, hear it
F Eb C
I can hear that modern spirit
C
On the open road for boys
C
A white and an open throat
Bb
Night slips back with no noise
C F Eb
Inside the hitch-hiker's coat
C
But we're getting nearer, nearer
F
Getting near that modern spirit, yeah
C
I can hear it, hear it, hear it
F
I can hear the modern spirit, yeah
F
Can't you just hear it, hear it, hear it?
Eb
Winter counting everything, we're near it
F
We're getting nearer nearer, nearer
Eb
Friendship changing everything, we're near it
Ab Bb
I can hear it
C
Is this the modern spirit?
F
Is this the modern spirit, yeah
C
Is this the modern spirit
F
This is the modern spirit, yeah
C
This is the modern spirit
F
This is the modern spirit, yeah
C
This is the modern spirit
F Eb C
This is the modern spirit, yeah
F Eb C
Yeah , yeah