E   D`  C   G`
e | -x---x---x---x |  
B | -8---7---5---5 |  
G | -0---0---0---0 |  
D--x---x---x---0 |  
A | -7---5---3---x |  
E | -x---x---x---3 | 

G                   Em9
Cigarette smoke dances back in the window
    C9         Em7         D
And I can see the haze on the dome light.
    G                     Em9
I`m conjuring ghosts on a forty-hour ride home.
    C9                        Em7           D
And they keep asking me what I`m doing with my life,
         C9         D              Em7
While my cousins go to bed with their wives.
    C9        D           A74
I'm feeling like I've fallen behind.

         G
Well the highway won.
    Em9
I`m listening to traffic reports,
C9              Em7       D
One on one, coming quietly undone.
      G            Em9
I was born to run away from anything good
     C9
An escape artist`s son
                  Em7            D
With sun-drenched pavement in my blood.
    C9              D         Em7
The first thing that I do when I walk in
   C9      D            A74
Is plan a way out for when shit gets bad

    E         D'      C   G`           E     
And I`ve been looking for tears in the screen door.
 D`           C
(tears in the screen door)
E         D`      C     G`      E
I`ve been waiting for another disaster.
  D`       C
(another disaster)

G - Em9 - C9 - Em7 - D

    G                Em9
I`m terrified like a kid in the sixties,
C9              Em7             D
Staring at the sky waiting for the bomb to fall.
     G                    Em9
It`s all a lie, what they say about stability.
   C9
It scares me sometimes,
    Em7         D         A74
The emptiness I see in my eyes.
        Em9                   C9             D
All the kid`s names I?ve ever liked are tied to tragedy
A74                    Em9                    C9       D
      And I don?t want my children growing up to be anything like me.

Em7       D       C9
I`ve been looking for 
G            Em7
Tears in the screen door.
 D            C9
(tears in the screen door)
Em7       D       C9
I`ve been waiting for 
 G        Em7   
Another disaster
  D        C9
(another disaster)
    Em7           C9        D
But I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
Em7           C9        G
I was kind of hoping you`d stay.

C9 - G - D

         Em7
I keep a flashlight
      C9              G            D
And a small knife in the corner of my bed stand.
         Em7                C9
I keep a flashlight and the train times,
                 G
But you wouldn?t understand.
              D
How could you understand?

      Em7               C9
Jesus Christ. I`m twentysix.
        G                  C9
All the people I graduated with
         Em7            C9
All have kids, all have wives,
         G                       C9
All have people who care if they come home at night.
      Em7           D
Jesus Christ, did I fuck up?

Em7       D       C9
I`ve been looking for 
G            Em7
Tears in the screen door.
 D            C9
(tears in the screen door)
Em7       D       C9
I`ve been waiting for 
 G        Em7   
Another disaster
  D        C9
(another disaster)
    Em7           C9        D
But I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
Em7           C9        G
I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
Em7           D            G
I was kind of hoping you`d stay.