The tuning for this song is E5 - A5 - D5 - F#5 - B5 - E5  and Capo 2

Verse:              Chorus
E5 : 022200           C#5 : x2444x
A5 : x02300       A5 : x0244x
B5 : x24500       F#5 : 244xxx
                    B5 : x24500
//: Tacet (stop)

Intro: E5 - A5 - B5

          E5
Well, I'm lost
    A5
I'm afraid
B5
Rope tying down a leaky boat
       E5                  A5                     B5
To the roof of a car on a road in the dark and it's snowing
       E5            A5     B5
If I'm more then it means less

Last call for happiness
         E5                           A5                      B5
I'm your dress near the back of your knees and your slip is showing
      E5          A5        B5
I'm a float in a summer parade
                         E5        A5        B5
Up the street in the town that you were born in
       E5           A5       B5
With a girl at the top wearing tulle
                     E5     A5           B5
And a Miss Somewhere sash, waving like the queen

Chorus:
C#5                               A5
   Well beauty's just another word
                             F#5
I'm never certain how to spell
                              A5  B5
Go tell the nurse to turn the T.V .  back on
C#5                   A5
  Throw away my misery
                            B5
It never meant that much to me
                          //
It never sent a get-well card.


        E5             A5 B5
And I'm broke, like a bad   joke

Somebody's uncle told 
     E5                    A5            B5
At a wedding reception in nineteen seventy-two
        E5                  A5                  B5
Where a little boy under a table with cake in his hair
E5                      A5                   B5
Stared at the grown-up feet as they danced and swayed

(Let all chords ring until chorus)

        E5                  A5                   B5
And his father laughed and talked on the long ride home
        E5                  A5                   B5
And his mother laughed and talked on the long ride home
        E5                A5             B5
And he thought about how everyone dies someday
    E5             A5                           B5
And when tomorrow gets here, where will yesterday be
    E5                  A5            B5
And fell asleep in his brand new winter coat

Chorus:
C#5                     A5                          F#5
  Buy me a shiny new machine that runs on lies and gasoline
A5                             B5
  And all those batteries we stole from smoke alarms
C#5                          A5
  And disassembles my despair
                     B5
It never took me anywhere
                           //
It never once bought me a drink