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