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 *
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D A
Holy ghosts,
D A
When do you come out to play?
D A
'Cause if the Lord is gonna find me,
G A D
He'd better start looking today.
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A D
Last week my baby hit the slopes.
A
I spent the weekend setting traps in the road.
I should have been cutting out my eyelids,
D [riff]
you'll never guess what baby did when she got home.
Oh-oh Na na na na na
A
Now at least the birds are singing to me,
but what they're trying to say,
G
I don't know.
(you're beautiful)
F#m
I think they come from the cold
(for all your big mistakes)
G
I think they come from the cold
(you stayed the same)
A
to the city that don't snow.
D
So I drove until we both broke down.
I was stranded in a border town
A
believing the motel TV would bring me to safety,
but between MTV and Mr. O'Reilly
D
I've come to find, that I can't be defined
A
so I turned it off, now convinced I would cross
Took one last look at the gold
D [riff]
as it shattered on a mountaintop
D A
Now I believe the sun, it's like a symphony.
But what it's trying to play,
G
I don't know.
(you're beautiful)
F#m
I think they come from the cold
(for all your big mistakes)
G
I think they come from the cold
(you stayed the same)
A
to the city that don't snow.
D G A
C'mon, Holy ghosts
D G A
When do you come out to play?
D G A
'Cause if the Lord is gonna find me,
G A D
He'd better start looking today.
G D
So I can rise with the river
G D
We all float before we sink
G
We pray for satellites,
D
Pray for courtesy
A G
I pray that it can climb mountains to me!
D G
I say goodbye to the canyon.
D G
I will set sail to the streets
D G A
where I don't care to be forgiven
A G
I want to be forgotten.
D G
I don't care to be forgiven
D G
When Lord I only want to be forgotten!
D G
Singing oh oh oh na na na
D G
Oh oh oh
D G
I'm Singing oh oh oh na na
A G
Oh-oh Oh-oh
D G
I'm Singing oh oh oh na na na
D G
Singing oh oh oh
D G
I'm Singing oh oh oh na na
A G
Oh-oh na na na Oh-oh
A
Now I receive a call from my family
and what they started to say
G
brought me home.
(you're beautiful)
F#m
They think I'm beautiful
(for all your big mistakes)
G A
They think I'm beautiful
(you're beautiful)
D [riff]
for all my big mistakes.
for all my big mistakes.
for all my big mistakes.
ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS---------------------------------------------------------
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[INTRO]
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[OR PLAY THE CHORD "C"]
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.
C G F
So I call your name, cross my fingers
Am G C
uncross the others, hesitate.
G Dm G
Oh I don't think straight with nothing to prove.
F F * A * G *
I don't wanna say I'm leaving
F * G * C G Am
I'll stay until the weekend.
F
And you can take all the things;
F E F
the boxes and rings
G
and get going.
'Cause I've been waiting for...
C G Am G
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.
C G Am G
Let it be, and come to me with the look in your eyes.
F C Dm C
Will you break and take all the words from my mouth?
F C Dm C
I wish all the pretty girls were shaking me down.
C G
So I call you out
F Am G C
Just to feel a little bit better about myself
G Dm G
I do, baby I do, I do, I do
C
Until their lips start to move,
G
and their friends wanna talk music
F Fm
I say "I've never heard the tune!"
C G
But I have, I just hate the band
Dm G
'cause they remind me of you.
F F * A * G *
Every single night ends up the same,
F * G * C G Am G
I don't say much at all, but I bring up your name.
F F E F
(Over and over and over)
I think it's striking me out.
C G Am G
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.
C G Am G
Let it be, and come to me with the look in your eyes.
F C Dm C
Will you break and take all the words from my mouth?
F C Dm C
I wish all the pretty girls were shaking me down.
C
But not you,
G Am G
you still wear boots and your hair is too long
C G Am G
and then this one doesn't want to admit she's fallen in love
F C Dm C
Oh c'mon, oh c'mon, what's a boy to do
F C Dm C
When all the pretty girls can't measure to you.
[SOLO]
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F F * A * G *
I don't understand your reasons
F * G * C G Am
Please just stay over the weekend
F
You can't take all those things
F E F
They define you and me
G
everything we've become,
You're all that I need
Please don't make me face my generation alone.
C G * A * C *
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.
G * A * C * C * B * F * G *
Let it be, and come to me with the look in your eyes.
F C Dm C
Will you break and take all the words from my mouth?
F C Dm C
I wish all the pretty girls were shaking me down.
C
But not you,
G Am G
I feel your faith is destroying the world
C G
and then this one never even understood
Am G F
the 80s is over and done
C Dm C
Oh c'mon, what's a boy to do,
F C Dm C
when all the pretty girls can't measure to you
C G Am G
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.
C G Am G
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.
F C Dm C
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.
C G Am G
All the pretty girls on a Saturday night.
I WANNA BE THE ONE-----------------------------------------------------------
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C F C
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C G C G C
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C G
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
C
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
G
Pa-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra
C
Pa-ra Pa
C G C G
Were you named for the river that surrounds
C G C G
All my biggest my mistakes or the way that I made it out
Am Bm C F Am Bm C Bm
All the muscles in my mouth never smiled or said profound things
C Am Bm C F G C
Until the day she handed you to me now
C F C
For all the steps you'll take and all you'll overcome
F G C
I wanna be the one to put in a song
F C
Take every single tear for all the world to hear
F G C
I wanna be the one to put it in a song
C G
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
C
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
G
Pa-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra
C
Pa-ra Pa
C G C G
Cigarettes are raining hard on the Upper East Side
C G C G
She brings me a cake we celebrate I have arrived
C G C G
And I know that it's been sang before but you're my human holiday
C G C G
I put my hands to the table and dare say the love of my life
Am Bm C F
And your brother with his best friend
Am Bm C F
Shares a name I'm gonna need
Really couldn't bring me down
C F C
For everything you lost and all you overcome
F G C
I wanna be the one to put in a song
F C
Take every single tear for all the world to hear
F G C Dm
I wanna be the one to put it in a song and make it last forever
C G C Dm
Clever comes in truth when truth begets the past
C G
Its sends its call out to the moon
G * A * B * C * D * E * C G C G
And the moon can see the beauty that surrounds your heart as it pounds
C B * A * C * Dm C * B * D * E * F * G * B * C
It starts the beat inspiring me until I make the sound
F C F C
C F C F G C
I wanna be the one, I wanna be one, I wanna be the one, no-no no-no
C F C
For everything you lost and all you overcome
F G C
I wanna be the one to put in a song
F C
Take every single tear for all the world to hear
F G C
I wanna be the one to put it in a song
C G
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
C
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa
G
Pa-ra-ra-ra-ra-ra
C
Pa-ra Pa
AT LEAST I'M NOT AS SAD (AS I USED TO BE)------------------------------------
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D Em Bm D Em A D C#m D
Have you ever wondered about our old nu-metal friends and what became of them?
D Em A
Turns out I saw them a couple of days ago,
Em Bm Em A
They were laughing and drinking and smoking and singing.
D
C?mon, can you count all the notches in your belt?
Em A A/B A/C# D
I'd rather not, let's just say I'm starving myself.
D
Baby, put your name down on a piece of paper
Em A A/B A/C# D
I don?t want no savior baby, I just wanna have a good time
D Em A D D * D * F# * A *
Oh-oh oh, Oh-uh oh
D Em A D
At least I?m not as sad as I used to be
D
And they said,
C#m D Em
"Hey Nate, yeah it?s been a while,
A
Are you gonna sing?"
D
I began to smile and I said,
D Em A
"You should?ve seen me a couple of years ago,
Em Bm Em A
I was laughing and drinking and smoking and singing."
D
C?mon can you count all the loves that didn?t last?
Em D D * D * F# * A *
It?s such a gas when you bring up the past.
D Em
Baby, put your name down on a piece of paper.
Em
I don?t want no savior baby
A A/B A/C# D
I just wanna get it out.
D Em A D D * D * F# * A *
Oh-oh oh, Oh-uh oh
D Em A D
At least I?m not as sad as I used to be
D Em A D D * D * F# * A *
Oh-oh oh, (get it out) Oh-uh oh
D Em A D
At least I?m not as sad as I used to be
D Em A D
(Just get it out)
D Em A D
D Em A D
D Em A D
D Em A D
D Em A D
At least I?m not as sad as I used to be
D Em
And they say we would?ve seen you two years ago
A A * Bm * C# * D
Had you stuck around or come out to a show,
Bm D Em
But youth?s taken over by rock and roll,
A G F#m E
While we were laughing and drinking and smoking and singing....
D Em A D4 D
So I left, That is it. That?s my life, Nothing is sacred.
Bm Em
I don?t keep friends,I keep acquainted,
A
I?m not a prophet, But I?m here to profit.
D Em A D4 D
That?s all, I?m gone! That?s my life, Nothing is sacred.
Bm Em
I don?t fall in love, I just fake it.
A A/B A/C# D
I don?t fall in love. I don?t fall in love.
LIGHT A ROMAN CANDLE WITH ME-------------------------------------------------
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E Abm C#m Abm
E Abm C#m Abm
E Abm C#m Abm
E Abm C#m Abm
E Abm C#m Abm
Light a roman candle with me
E Abm C#m Abm
Just a roman candle, you can wear your sandals
A Abm F#m Abm
and I'll pour you just one cup of tea.
A Abm
Then you can go and rest
F#m Abm
you haven't seen my best, so...
E Abm C#m Abm
Just spend an evening with me
E Abm C#m Abm
Just a lazy evening, then you could be leaving
A Abm F#m Abm
or we could stay and talk until three.
A Abm F#m Abm
I will think it's magic and I'll hope you'll agree, so...
E Abm C#m Abm
Light a roman candle with me
E Abm
Just a roman candle
C#m Abm E
Just a perfect apple
F# A Abm E
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E Abm C#m Abm
Light a roman candle with me
E Abm
Just a roman candle
C#m Abm E * F#m * Abm *
Just a perfect apple
A Abm F#m Abm A
If we were honest and both wrote a sonnet together
Abm F#m Abm
a sandwich with everything on it,
E Abm C#m Abm
at least we would know that the sparks didn't glow
E Abm C#m
but we owe it to ourselves to try,
Abm A
so we aim and ignite!
Abm F#m Abm
So often I call and I plead with you:
A Abm
"Give me a chance!"
F#m Abm E
It's not often that I understand
Abm C#m Abm E
the ins and the outs of what's wrong and what's right
Abm C#m Abm E * F#m * Abm *
So don't think of tomorrow tonight.
A Abm F#m Abm
Oh, I know, it goes on, it gets old
A Abm F#m Abm
But for now we're young, we smell good, we're alone, so alive
E Abm C#m Abm
E Abm C#m Abm
A Abm
You look for a legend,
F#m Abm
I'm looking for common ground.
A Abm
Your heart isn't breaking,
F#m Abm
and mine isn't making a sound.
E Abm C#m Abm
E Abm C#m Abm
E * F#m * Abm *
A Abm F#m Abm
Oh I know, it goes on, it gets old
A Abm F#m Abm
Oh I know, it goes on, it gets old
E Abm C#m Abm
Light a roman candle with me
E Abm
Just a roman candle
C#m Abm E
Just a perfect apple
WALKING THE DOG--------------------------------------------------------------
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D G D Em
D Em D
G D Em D
D G D Em
Walking alone 'cause the night is dead.
Em D Em
D G D Em
Crossed my mind when I crossed the bridge.
Em D
Em
How you lost your mind,
F#m
and your wrist got bruised,
G
and you wanted better love
A Em
when it was sleeping in your bedroom.
Em
Hold on,
F#m
Stay on my side,
G A
Don't go-oh-oh-oh
( D * A *)
D G D Em
If you could see me
Em D Em D
Whoever I am.
D G D Em
It's not like the movies,
Em D Em D
it's not all skin and bones.
D G D Em
So come on love
Em D
(come on, come one, come all and go)
D G D Em
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
I will not let you go
D G D Em
D Em D
G D
D G D Em
Now I'm walking alone 'cause the night is dead.
Em D
D G D Em
My feet don't glide like they did back then,
Em D
D G D Em
when I would call you up so we could shoot the moon.
Em D Em
D G D Em
These days I'm left to howl in tune.
Em D
Em
Hearts do break
F#m
and I must admit
G
I gotta better set a chorus
A
so I might have been faking it.
Em F#m
Think I really have only cried just once.
G A
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh
( D * A *)
D G D Em
If you could see me
Em D Em D
Whoever I am.
D G D Em
It's not like the movies,
Em D Em D
it's not all skin and bones.
D G D Em
So come on love
Em D
(come on, come one, come all and go)
D G D Em
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
Em D Em
I will not let you go
D G D Em
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
D
I will not let you go
D D/C#
After all the shows,
D/C D9/B D9/F#
after all the boys of summer gone,
G6
amid all the confusion
D9/F# D9/B
this friends I've been losing
Em D *
I always thought from the start
E * F# * C# * D *
I'd be the one moving on.
D D/C#
I guess I'll never know
D/C D9/B D9/F#
Where all the boys of summer go
G6
but I'll miss what we made
D9/F# D9/B
and the days were not wasted.
Em D G D
There are some things I may never know.
Em
How you lost your mind
F#m
and your wrists got bruised
G
and you wanted better love
A
well it's sleeping in your bedroom.
Em
Hold on,
F#m
Stay on my side,
G A D
Don't go-oh-oh-oh
G D Em
If you could see me
D Em D
Whoever I am.
G D Em
It's not like a movie,
D Em D
it's not all skin and bones.
G D Em
So come on love
D Em D
(come on, come one, come all and go)
D G D Em
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
I will not let you go
( D * A *)
G D Em
If you could see me
D Em D
Whoever I am.
G D Em
It's not like a movie,
D Em D
it's not all skin and bones.
G D Em
So come on love
D Em D
(come on, come one, come all and go)
D G D Em
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
Em D Em
I will not let you go
D G D Em
Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
I will not let you go
BARLIGHTS--------------------------------------------------------------------
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INTRO: D
D E
Never in all of my life
A D
Have I seen eyes as empty as these streets of my city
D
on a Saturday night,
E A Abm D
all the green of your eyes says "Go, leave it all behind."
D E
But I don't need to be reminded a change is gonna come.
D E
I can feel it on the tip of your tongue.
A D A
And I feel alive, feel alive, feel alive.
D E
We met up once we'd settled the sun
A Abm
Between the heat and the work week
D
The fear is we could use some sleep
D E
but sleep to a superfluous man means better use for beds
A Abm D
and I'll bet I'm coming home alone tonight.
D E
I don't need to be reminded this is how it was.
D E
I moved on, I passed a billboard down my block
D E
that asks if I've had enough, and aloud I say "I've had too much"
D E
when the truth is, I'm just getting started.
A
Now all the barlights are blinking in time
D D * E * F# * E * D *
to Mexican music, it's taunting the pavement
A D
And I feel alive, feel alive, feel alive.
D E
One of us sings, and one of us drinks,
A
and one of us has nothing at all.
D
So he calls us all sheep
E A
I'm the Little Bo Peep of the bunch.
(I take their tales and I'm ready to go)
D E
Then he swears he's gotta take this call
A Abm D
Man, I'm scared he's gonna leave us too soon.
D
We were the get rich quick kids,
E
We never got it right
D E
So we settled for the center in town
D E
Where all the rich white kids is out looking for a fight
D E
got the blond one staring me down.
D E
and I really wanna take a swing
A Abm D
I can't help but remember James Dean
D E
See we are part of the few who agree
D
that hey, he lived life fast
E
but he died.
he died.
he died.
A
Me, I'm gonna live forever.
A D A
(And I feel alive, feel alive, feel alive)
A
Now all the barlights are blinking in time
D A
to Mexican music, it's taunting the pavement
and for the first time,
D
in a long time,
A
I feel alive.
THE GAMBLER------------------------------------------------------------------
Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb
Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb
Bb Bb/A Gm
Slow down,
F Eb F
we've got time left to be lazy
Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F
All the kids have bloomed from babies into flowers in our eyes.
Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F
We've got fifty good years left to spend out in the garden
Eb Dm
I don't care to beg your pardon,
Cm F
We should live
Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb
until we die.
Bb Bb/A Gm Dm Eb F
We were barely eighteen when we'd crossed collective hearts.
Eb Dm Cm F
It was cold, but it got warm when you'd barely crossed my eye.
Bb Bb/A Gm
and then you turned, put out your hand,
F Eb F
and you asked me to dance.
Eb Dm Cm F
I knew nothing of romance, but it was love at second sight.
Eb F Bb Bb/A Gm F
I swear when I grow up, I won't just buy you a rose.
Eb F Bb Bb/A Gm F
I will buy the flower shop, and you will never be lonely.
Eb F
Even if the sun stops waking up over the fields
Bb Bb/A Gm
I will not leave, I will not leave 'till it's our time.
Eb F Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb
So just take my hand, you know that I will never leave your side.
Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb
Bb Bb/A Gm Dm Eb F
It was the winter of '86, and all the fields had frozen over.
Eb Dm Cm F
So we moved to Arizona to save our only son
Bb Bb/A Gm F
and now he's turning to a man,
Eb F
although he thinks just like his mother,
Eb Dm Cm F
he believes we're all just lovers he sees hope in everyone.
Bb Bb/A Gm
And even though she moved away,
F Eb F
we always get calls from our daughter.
Eb Dm
She has eyes just like her father's
Cm F
they are blue when skies are grey
Bb Bb/A Gm F
And just like him , she never stops,
Eb F
Never takes the day for granted,
Eb Dm
works for everything that's handed to her,
Cm F
Never once complains.
Eb F Bb Bb/A Gm F
You think that I nearly lost you
Eb F Bb Bb/A Gm F
When the doctors tried to take you away.
Eb F Bb Bb/A Gm F
But like the night you took my hand beside the fire
Eb F
thirty years ago
Bb
to this day
Eb F
You swore you'd be here 'til we decide that it's our time
Bb Bb/A Gm
Well it's not time, you've never quit in all your life.
Eb F Bb Bb/A Gm
So just take my hand, you know that I'll never leave your side.
Eb F Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb
You're the love of my life, you know that I'll never leave your side.
Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb
Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb
Bb Bb/A Gm F Eb F Bb Bb/A Bb
Eb Dm Cm Dm Eb F
Eb Dm Cm F
Bb Bb/A Gm F
You come home from work
Eb F
and you kiss me on the eye
Eb Dm Cm F
You curse the dog you say that I should never feed them what is ours
Bb Bb/A Gm F
and so we move all to the garden
Eb F
look at everything we've owned
Eb Dm
now the kids are coming home
Cm Dm Eb F
so I set the table
Bb
You can make the fire.
TAKE YOUR TIME (COMING HOME)-------------------------------------------------
[WHEN APPEARS THE "*"
IT MEANS THAT ONLY THE NOTE SHOULD
BE PLAYED INSTEAD THE CHORD]
D G A G G * G * F#m * E *
D G A G G * G * F#m * E *
D G A G G * G * F#m * E *
D G A * A * C#m * C#m * E * E * C#m * C#m *
A * A * C#m * C#m * E * E * C#m * C#m *
A * A * C# * C# * E * E * C# * C# * A *
G D
Take your time coming home.
G A A/Bb
Hear the wheels as they roll.
G D
Let your lungs fill up with smoke.
A * A * C#m * C#m * E * E * C#m * C#m *
Forgive everyone.
A * A * C#m * C#m * E * E * C#m * C#m *
G * F#m * E * D * C#m * D * E *
She is here and now she is...
A * A * C#m * C#m * E * E * C#m * C#m * A * A * C#m * C#m * E * E * C#m * C#m *
...home
G * F#m * E * D * C#m * D * E *
We had plans, we can't help but make...
A * A * C#m * C#m * E * E * C#m * C#m * A * A * C#m * C#m * E * E * C#m * C#m *
...love.
G D
It's a beautiful thing when you love somebody,
A
(when you love somebody)
A/Bb Bm
And I love somebody.
G D A
Yeah I love somebody, home
G D
Take your time coming home.
G A A/Bb
Hear the wheels as they roll.
G D
Let your lungs fill up with smoke.
A * A * C#m * C#m * E * E * C#m * C#m * A * A * C#m * C#m * E * E * C#m *
Forgive everyone.
G D
I don't think I'd been misled,
G
it was a rock'n'roll band,
A A/Bb
I'm still standing,
G D
Take your time coming home.
A A * A * C#m * C#m * E * E * C#m * C#m *
Home
G D
See, of everyone who called,
F#m A G E D
Very few said "We believe in you."
G D
The overwhelming choice said
E D F#m A G
I'm just a boy inside a voice
G G F#m E D
and if it's true, if it's true, if it's true,
D A F#m A G
then what the fuck have I been doing the last six years?
D A
How did I end up here?
F#m A G
And I find love and conquer all my fears?
D
See, I made it out.
F#m A G
Out from under the sun.
D F#m A G
And the truth is that I feel better because I've forgiven everyone.
G
Now I'm not scared
D
of a song
F#m
or the states,
G
or the stages.
G
I'm not scared.
D
I've got friends,
F#m A
took my call,
G
came courageous.
Now I feel like I am home.
D G A G G * G * F#m * E *
D G A G
G D
One more think, I keep having this dream
F#m A G E D
where I'm standing on a mountain
G D
Looking out, on the street
F#m A G E D
I can hear kids in low-income housing singing
G F#m E D
"We're through with causing a scene"
I don't know
F#m
I don't know
A
I don't know
G
I don't know
what it means
G D G F#m E D
But I too, I'm through with causing a scene.
D G A G G * G * F#m * E *
D G A G G * G * F#m * E *
D G A G
D G A * A * C#m * C#m * E * E * C#m * C#m *
A * A * C#m * C#m * E * E * C#m * C#m *
A * A * C# * C# * E * E * C# * C# * A *
G * F#m * E * D * C#m * D * E *
She is here and now I think she's ready to go.
A * A * C#m * C#m * E * E * C#m * C#m *
A * A * C#m * C#m *
E * G * F#m * E * D * C#m * D * E * A
