INTRO:
Ab5 C#5 Ab5
Ab5 C#5 F#5
B5  Bb5
Ab5 C#5 F#5

  Ab5                                    C#5
As I walk through the streets of my new city
   F#5                             B5
my back feeling much better, I suppose
Bb5  Ab5                      C#5
I've reclaimed the use of my imagination
    F#5                               B5
for better or for worse, I've yet to know
Bb5   Ab5                              C#5
but I always knew you'd be the one to understand me,
               F#5                                B5  Bb5
I guess that's why it took so long to get things right.
Ab5
Suddenly I'm lost
       C#5
On my street

On my block
   F#5
Oh why, Oh why
   B5               E5
Oh why haven't you been there for me?
          F#5                 B5         Bb5
Can't you see, I'm losing my mind this time?
Ab5                C#5
This time it's for real, I can see

F#5 *     Ab5 *      Bb5 *    C#5 *
All the trees are turning red
    F#5 *     Ab5 * Bb5 *    C#5 *   F#5 *
The beggars near bodegas grin at me
F#5 *     Ab5 *      Bb5 *    C#5 *
I think they want something
  F#5 *     Ab5 *      Bb5 *    C#5 *  F#5 *
I close my eyes, I tell myself to breathe

       B5
and be calm.

Be calm.
           E5                          B5
I know you feel like you are breaking down.
       Ab5          C#5              E5      
Well I know that it gets so hard sometimes.
   F#5
Be calm.


  Ab5                              C#5
I'm scared that everyone is out to get me.
       F#5                             B5  Bb5 
"These days before you speak to me you pause."
  Ab5                             C#5
"I always see you looking out your window."
    F#5                                        B5  Bb5
"After all, you lost your band, you left your mom."
    Ab5                       C#5
Now every single crack, every pain that I pass,
     F#5                                B5  Bb5
says I should either leave or pick it up
    Ab5
But with every single buck I've made
    C#5
I'm saddled with bad luck that came
    F#5
the moment I was baptized
                                       F#5 *
or when I found out one day I'm gonna die
   Ab5 *         Bb5 * C#5 *      F#5 *     Ab5 *        C#5 *
if only I could find my people or my place in life
    F#5 *       Ab5 *   Bb5 *      C#5 *
then when they come to 'carolin'
  F#5 *       Ab5 *       Bb5 *    C#5 *
so loud, so bright, the theremin
    F#5 *  Ab5 *   Bb5 *
will lead us to a chorus
C#5 *  F#5 *     Ab5 *      Bb5 *      C#5 *      F#5
where we'll all rejoice and sing a song that goes:

      B5
Oh be calm.

Be calm.
           E5                          B5
I know you feel like you are breaking down.
  Ab5          C#5              E5
I know that it gets so hard sometimes,
   F#5
Be calm.
           B5                              D#5
Take it from me, I've been there a thousand times.
              Ab5
You hate your pulse because it thinks you're still alive
   Ab5 A#5 * B5 *       C#5  
and e-very--thing's wrong
        E5                C#5
It just gets so hard sometimes
   F#5
Be calm.

  Ab5      F#5    D#5       C#5
I don't remember much that night,
     B5        F#5       B5       F#5
Just walking, thinking fondly of you
 Ab5     F#5      D#5      C#5    B5
Thinking how the worst is yet to come
F#5               B5      F#5     B5
From that street corner came a song
    B5 * C#5 *  D#5 * E5 *
And I can't remember the man,
   F#5                 B5 Bb5
The panhandler or his melody.
    Ab5     F#5          D#5   C#5    F#5
The words exchanged had far exceeded any change I'd given thee. 

      B5
Oh be calm.

Be calm.
           E5                          B5
I know you feel like you are breaking down.
  Ab5          C#5              E5
I know that it gets so hard sometimes,
   F#5
Be calm.
           B5                              D#5
Take it from me, I've been there a thousand times.
              Ab5
You hate your pulse because it thinks you're still alive
   Ab5 A#5 B5       C#5  
and e-very--thing's wrong
        E5                C#5
It just gets so hard sometimes
   F#5
Be calm.
   Ab5
Be calm.



by: Allan Lauzid