The Prison
By Melissa Etheridge
From the Album "Skin"

Throughout this song,
you won't take your pinky off the third fret of  the high-E string.
The chord names I put above the tablature are the names of the chords
if the pinky was not on the third fret of the high E-string.

      Am (x02210@1)            Am (x02210@1)         Am (x02210@1)          Am------3--------------3-------------3-------------3-------| (x02210@1)--------1---1----------1---1---------1---1---------1---1-|
----2-----2-------2------2------2------2------2------2---|
---------------------------------------------------------|
-0-------------0-------------0-------------0-------------|
---------------------------------------------------------|


      Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)       Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)        Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)        Fmaj7-------3--------------3--------------3--------------3-----| (1x3210@1)---------1---1----------1---1----------1---1--------------|
-----2-----2--------2-----2-------2------2-------2--------|
-3--------------3-------------3--------------3------------|
----------------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------------|
                                                      I was

     C (x32010@1)            C (x32010@1)            C (x32010@1)            C--------3--------------3--------------3-------------3--------3-| (x32010@1)----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1------------------|
-----2------2-------2------2-------2------2-------2-------2----|
---------------------------------------------------------------|
-3--------------3--------------3--------------3-------2--------|
---------------------------------------------------------------|
 high and dry           like aKansas (x02210@1)sky                 If I


   Am (x02210@1)           Am (x02210@1)         Am (x02210@1)           Am------3--------------3-------------3-------------3---------3-| (x02210@1)--------1---1----------1---1---------1---1-------------------|
----2-----2-------2------2------2------2------2---------2----|
-------------------------------------------------------------|
-0-------------0-------------0-------------0-----------------|
-----------------------------------------------------3-------|
 ached for any more        I knew I'd surely die


  Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)        Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)        Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)        Fjam7
-------3--------------3--------------3--------------3-------|
---------1---1----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1-|
-----2-----2--------2-----2-------2------2-------2------2---|
-3--------------3-------------3--------------3--------------|
------------------------------------------------------------|
------------------------------------------------------------|
 Night after night  trying to get out of my skin


     C (x32010@1)                          Am--------3--------------3--------------3--------------3-------| (x02210@1)----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1-|
-----2------2-------2------2-------2------2--------2-----2---|
-------------------------------------------------------------|
-3--------------2--------------0---------------0-------------|
-------------------------------------------------------------|
 Day  after    lone  ly        day,      you'd send me back

   G------3--| (320003@1)---------|
---0-----|
---------|
---------|
-3-------|
again


C (x32010@1)                      Fmaj7I (1x3210@1)have stood inside this prison

C (x32010@1)                      Fmaj7I (1x3210@1)have touched its stony walls

C (x32010@1)                      AmI (x02210@1)know before you try to run

Am (x02210@1)                 GYou (320003@1)gotta learn to crawl

C (x32010@1)                       Fmaj7I (1x3210@1)tried to leave it all behind me

C (x32010@1)                                 Fmaj7I (1x3210@1)drove all night, just to drive all day

C (x32010@1)                                    AmBut (x02210@1)the walls of this prison still surround me

  Fmaj7 (1x3210@1)name="chord_320003@1">G              AmAnd (x02210@1)I     can't break away