The tuning for this song is E - A - D - F# - B - E and Capo 2
Verse: Chorus
E : 022200 C#m : x2444x
A9 : x02300 A9 : x0244x
B4 : x24500 F#m : 244xxx
B4 : x24500
//: Tacet (stop)
Intro: E - A9 - B4
E
Well, I'm lost
A9
I'm afraid
B4
Rope tying down a leaky boat
E A9 B4
To the roof of a car on a road in the dark and it's snowing
E A9 B4
If I'm more then it means less
Last call for happiness
E A9 B4
I'm your dress near the back of your knees and your slip is showing
E A9 B4
I'm a float in a summer parade
E A9 B4
Up the street in the town that you were born in
E A9 B4
With a girl at the top wearing tulle
E A9 B4
And a Miss Somewhere sash, waving like the queen
Chorus:
C#m A9
Well beauty's just another word
F#m
I'm never certain how to spell
A9 B4
Go tell the nurse to turn the T.V . back on
C#m A9
Throw away my misery
B4
It never meant that much to me
//
It never sent a get-well card.
E A9 B4
And I'm broke, like a bad joke
Somebody's uncle told
E A9 B4
At a wedding reception in nineteen seventy-two
E A9 B4
Where a little boy under a table with cake in his hair
E A9 B4
Stared at the grown-up feet as they danced and swayed
(Let all chords ring until chorus)
E A9 B4
And his father laughed and talked on the long ride home
E A9 B4
And his mother laughed and talked on the long ride home
E A9 B4
And he thought about how everyone dies someday
E A9 B4
And when tomorrow gets here, where will yesterday be
E A9 B4
And fell asleep in his brand new winter coat
Chorus:
C#m A9 F#m
Buy me a shiny new machine that runs on lies and gasoline
A9 B4
And all those batteries we stole from smoke alarms
C#m A9
And disassembles my despair
B9
It never took me anywhere
//
It never once bought me a drink