G -------------------------------------4---------------------- |
D -----4-4---4--4-4---------4-------7----7-5--5--5-5-4----4-4- |
A -5-7-----7--------7-5--7----7-5-----------------------7----- |
D G
I'm standing on the outside lookin' in
D D/C# B
I'm standing on the outside lookin' in
A D
Whoa, I never Gstrayed outside the law
Bass in 2nd verse:
D G D B A G D
G -/9-7------------/9-7-------------------------- |
D ------9-7-------------9-7-9-9--7-7------------- |
A ----------10-10--------------------10-10-5-5-5- |
D G
I'm standing on the outside lookin' in
D B
A room fulla money and I'm born to win
A G D
And no amount of work's gonna get me through the door
D G
When I go walkin' down Blue Water bay
D D/C# B
I surface in the city at the end of the day
A G D
Whoa, I got a bad case of the bends
D G
I'm standing on the sidewalk you can see
D D/C# D
Somebody everybody wants to be
A G D
But they got the means to justify every end
D G
I got a friend broke through illegally
D D/C# B
Pulled a job on a small town T.A.B.
A G D
Five grand down on his own little piece of Eden
Bridge:
And I know x 2
E A
The first thing I'll do when I get into town
F# D B/A
Is buy a 22 and cut the whole thing down
G C B A G
No amount of work's gonna buy my way to freedom
Short break
E A
I'm on the outside lookin' in
E E/Eb C#
I'm standing on the outside lookin' in
B A E
Whoa, whoa, ohyeah
E A
I'm standing on the outside lookin' in
E C#
I'm standing on the outside lookin' in
B A E
Break:
E A E C# B A E x 3
N/C.. F# N/C.. Ab N/C.. A B Whoa, A whoa, oh E yeah x 3