Capo on 4th fret ================================================== Play the chords like this: e | ----X----------------X--------------------------------- | B | ------X------X---------X-----X------------------------- | G | --------X------X---------X-----X----------------------- | D | --------X--------X-------X-------X--------------------- | A | --------X--------X-------X-------X--------------------- | E | --------X--------X-------X-------X--------------------- | {Intro} C5 - A5 - C5 - A5 {Couplet} C5 E5 Johnny wanna be a big star A5 F5 Get on stage and play the guitar C5 E5 Make a little money, buy a fancy car A5 F5 Big old house and an alligator C5 E5 Just to match with them alligator shoes A5 F5 He's a rich man so he's no longer singing the blues D5 He's singing songs about material things G5 And platinum rings and watches that go bling C5 E5 But, diamonds don't bling in the dark A5 F5 He a star now, but he ain't singing from the heart C5 E5 Sooner or later he's just gonna fall apart A5 F5 Coz his fans can't relate to his new found art C5 E5 He ain't doing what he did from the start A5 F5 And that's foolish cause and feeling it far (????) D5 He decided to live his life shallow G5 Passion is love for material {Chorus} C5 G5 And its gone... gone... going... A5 F5 Gone... everything gone... give a damn... C5 G5 A5 F5 Gone be the birds when they don't want to sing... C5 G5 A5 F5 C5 - A5 - C5 - A5 Gone people... up awkward with their things... gone. C5 - E5 - A5 - F5 You see yourself in the mirror And you feel safe coz it looks familiar But you afraid to open up your soul Coz you don't really know, don't really know Who is, the person that's deep within Coz you are content with just being the na?ve brown man D5 - G5 And you fail to see that it's trivial Insignificant, you addicted to material C5 - E5 - A5 - F5 I've seen your kind before You're the type that thinks souls is sold in a store Packaged up with inscent sticks With them vegetarian meals To you that's righteous You're fiction like books You need to go out to life and look D5 - G5 Coz... what happens when they take your material You already sold your soul and its... {Chorus} C5 G5 And its gone... gone... going... A5 F5 Gone... everything gone... give a damn... C5 G5 A5 F5 Gone be the birds when they don't want to sing... C5 G5 A5 F5 C5 - A5 - C5 - A5 Gone people... up awkward with their things... gone. {Chorus} C5 - E5 - A5 - F5 You say that time is money and money is time So you got mind in your money and your money on your mind But what about... that crime that you did to get paid And what about... that bid, you can't take it to your brain Why you on about those shoes you'll wear today D5 - G5 They'll do no good on the bridges you've walked along the way C5 - C5 - E5 All that money that you got gonna be gone A5 - A5 - F5 That gear that you rock gonna be gone C5 - C5 - E5 The house up on the hill gonna be gone A5 - A5 - F5 The gold burst on your grill gonna be gone C5 - C5 - E5 The ice on your wrist gonna be gone A5 - A5 - F5 That nice little Miss gonna be gone D5 - G5 That whip that you roll gonna be gone And what's worst is your soul will be gone {Chorus} C5 G5 And its gone... gone... going... A5 F5 Gone... everything gone... give a damn... C5 G5 A5 F5 Gone be the birds when they don't want to sing... C5 G5 A5 F5 C5 - A5 - C5 - A5 (2x) Gone people... up awkward with their things... gone.