Date: Wed, July 21 1999
From: Peter Ferragine (pferragine@interhop.net)
Group: Green Day
Album: Insomniac
Released: 1995 reprise records
Track: 12
Title: westbound sign

**tune ½ step down**


intro/chorus

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|-8-8-8-8-8-8-5-5-5-6-6-6-6-6-6-|
|-6-6-6-6-6-6-3-3-3-------------|

verse

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|-8-8-8-8-8-8-3-3-3-3-3-3-5-5-5-5-5-5-2-2-2-2-2-2-|
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|-6-6-6-6-6-6-1-1-1-1-1-1-3-3-3-3-3-3-0-0-0-0-0-0-|

bridge

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|-3-3-3-3-3-3-6-6-6-6-6-6-2-2-2-2-2-2-1-1-1-1-1-1-|
|-1-1-1-1-1-1-4-4-4-4-4-4-0-0-0-0-0-0-------------|

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|-1-1-1-1-1-1-4-4-4-4-4-4-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

lyrics

boxed up, all of her favorite things
sold the rest at a rainy yard sale
big plans and leaving friends and a westbound sign
weighed out, her choices on a scale
prevailing nothing made sense
just transposition and a blank decision... she's taking off
no time and no copping out
she's burning daylight and petrol
blacked out the rearview mirror heading westward on
strung out on confusion road
and ten minute nervous breakdowns
xanex a beer for thought and she determined... she's taking off
is it salvation? or an escape from discontent?
will she find her name in the california cement?
punched out of the grind that punched her in one too many times...
is tragedy 2000 miles away? she's taking off