[WHEN APPEARS THE "*" IT MEANS THAT ONLY THE NOTE SHOULD BE PLAYED INSTEAD THE CHORD] INTRO: Abm C#m Abm Abm C#m F# B Bbm6 Abm C#m F# Abm C#m As I walk through the streets of my new city F# B my back feeling much better, I suppose Bbm6 Abm C#m I've reclaimed the use of my imagination F# B for better or for worse, I've yet to know Bbm6 Abm C#m but I always knew you'd be the one to understand me, F# B Bbm6 I guess that's why it took so long to get things right. Abm Suddenly I'm lost C#m On my street On my block F# Oh why, Oh why B E Oh why haven't you been there for me? F# B Bbm6 Can't you see, I'm losing my mind this time? Abm C#m This time it's for real, I can see F#* Abm* Bbm* C#m* All the trees are turning red F#* Abm* Bbm* C#m* F#* The beggars near bodegas grin at me F#* Abm* Bbm* C#m* I think they want something F#* Abm* Bbm* C#m* F#* I close my eyes, I tell myself to breathe B and be calm. Be calm. E B I know you feel like you are breaking down. Abm C#m E Well I know that it gets so hard sometimes. F# Be calm. Abm C#m I'm scared that everyone is out to get me. F# B Bbm6 "These days before you speak to me you pause." Abm C#m "I always see you looking out your window." F# B Bbm6 "After all, you lost your band, you left your mom." Abm C#m Now every single crack, every pain that I pass, F# B Bbm6 says I should either leave or pick it up Abm But with every single buck I've made C#m I'm saddled with bad luck that came F# the moment I was baptized F#* or when I found out one day I'm gonna die Abm* Bbm* C#* F#* Abm* C#m* if only I could find my people or my place in life F#* Abm* Bb* C#m* then when they come to 'carolin' F#* Abm* Bbm* C#m* so loud, so bright, the theremin F#* Abm* Bbm* will lead us to a chorus C#m* F#* Abm* Bbm* C#m* F# where we'll all rejoice and sing a song that goes: B Oh be calm. Be calm. E B I know you feel like you are breaking down. Abm C#m E I know that it gets so hard sometimes, F# Be calm. B Ebm Take it from me, I've been there a thousand times. Abm You hate your pulse because it thinks you're still alive Abm Bbm* B* C#m and e-very--thing's wrong E C#m It just gets so hard sometimes F# Be calm. Abm F# Ebm C#m I don't remember much that night, B F# B F# F#* Ab* B* Just walking, thinking fondly of you Abm F# Ebm C#m B Thinking how the worst is yet to come F# B F# B From that street corner came a song B* C#m* Ebm* E* And I can't remember the man, F# B Bbm6 The panhandler or his melody. Abm F# Ebm C#m F# The words exchanged had far exceeded any change I'd given thee. B Oh be calm. Be calm. E B I know you feel like you are breaking down. Abm C#m E I know that it gets so hard sometimes, F# Be calm. B Ebm Take it from me, I've been there a thousand times. Abm You hate your pulse because it thinks you're still alive Abm Bbm B C#m and e-very--thing's wrong E C#m It just gets so hard sometimes F# Be calm. Abm Be calm. D* G* by: Allan Lauzid allan_lauzid@hotmail.com