Start off with pick scrapes, and continue them in between chords.
C5                     Ab5                      G5             Ab5           
You never thought you'd be the one that they'd find on the ground.
C5                     Ab5                 G5                 Ab5     
When they scrape the bottom of the barrel, you are what they found.
C5                     Ab5               G5             Ab5     
His fear of death and starvation is what motivates this man,
C5                     Ab5              G5             Ab5     
when you're desperate you'll do almost anything you can.

[Chorus:]
C5         Ab5   G5       Ab5     
Desperation is living here with me.
C5         Ab5   G5       Ab5    
Desperation is smiling down on me.
C5         Ab5   G5       Ab5    
Desperation, desperation, I have no freedom to be free.
C5         Ab5   G5       Ab5    
Desperation please let me be.

(Continue in a similar manner)

Excuse me this time, but I've seen what you do.
You're shamed you're naked, humiliated too.
With no ego and no pride left, you wonder who you are.
You feel like you've been pushed into a corner
and it shouldn't go this far.

[Chorus]

(all pick scrapes)
No, no, no, you know you know this man.
No, no, no, he'll do almost anything he can.

[Chorus]