The Long Winters - "Scared Straight"
Tabbed By: Carmen Filletti



Ebm7               C#
Washington’s on the one
Bbm
I’m in the middle of speaking
           Ab
And you’re under the gun
Ebm7                       C#
Seething, leave it to the lone nut
Ebm7                       C#
It’s unappealing in someone so young


Ebm7                     C#
Plaintiff, you’re feeling so washed up
          Bbm                      Ab
And you mean it when you say you’re done
             Ebm7
Five lanes of freeway
        C#
But it’s all gone dark
Ebm7                          C#
You called to say you’re gonna run


C#              F#
Well, Can you wait?
C#         F#
Can you stand it?
C#       F# 
Are you brave or are you 
C#  F# 
        scared straight,
C#  F# 
        scared straight?



She didn’t want you to:
Ebm7           C#    
Speak right,
Bbm            Ab
be strong,
Ebm7           C# 
act nice,
Ebm7           C# 
take so long

She didn’t want you to:
Ebm7           C#
Call time,
Bbm            Ab
seem tired,
Ebm7           C#
leave mad,
Ebm7           C#
get so wired


C#              F#
Well, Can you wait?
C#         F#
Can you stand it?
C#       F# 
Are you brave or are you 
C#  F# 
        scared straight,
C#  F# 
        scared straight?


C#
Maybe you belong to someone
F#
Maybe you have finally met them
C#
Maybe smoke belongs in the sky
F#
Maybe I hate it when you cry


C#              F#
Well, Can you wait?
C#         F#
Can you stand it?
C#       F# 
Are you brave or are you 
C#  F# 
        scared straight,
C#  F# 
        scared straight?


Ebm7                     C#
You were hurt so you got hard
        Bbm                       Ab
You were cursed and scolded and scarred
       Ebm7                     C#
You were searched for, then ignored
            Ebm7
You want to burn the liars
                       C#
You’ll set us both on fire


Ebm7                     C#
You’re faking, so I’m pretend sleeping
Bbm                     Ab
Waiting for this to be fun
          Ebm7                   C#
It’s true little miss mean mini-bar guard
         Ebm7                     C#
We’re gonna have to try something new


Ebm7              C#
               Let me breathe
Ebm7              C#
               Let me breathe
Ebm7              C#
               Let me breathe
           Ebm7            C#         Bbm   Ab
Let me breathe fire down on you
           Ebm7            C#
Let me breathe fire down on you