G5
I had my stomach pumped two times my senior year
                      C5
Which earned the approbation of all my plastered peers

(Band In)

F5              E5            F5             E5
Now I do my weekly bleeding at trendy AA meetings

D5                    C5
I was a social monster, but now I serve my sponsor (w/Fill 1)

G5                        D5
I choke out clich? confessions, I suck down coffee black
G5                      C5
I chain smoke cigarettes between handfuls of Prozac
F5                E5           F5            E5
Man am I one sober stallion, I just got my first medallion
D5                      C5
My higher power drug me, I?m letting strangers hug me (w/Fill 1)

D5                      C5
Now I really crave a meeting, all those soothing empty greetings
D5                      C5
The Big Book is omniscient and I?m not self-sufficient
F5               E5                    D5                        G5
Dependency?s still coursing through my blood, I?m only changing drugs

G5                          D5
Self help study, twelve step program , which hollow slogan was it?
G5                  C5
 We found serenity  and  Day by Day  or  Easy does it ?
F5         E5            F5           E5
Plant that affirmation seed, our license plate should read
D5
 Ten thousand lakes and treatment centres,
C5                        G5
Betty Ford?s our statewide mentor        (w/ Fill 1)

G5                           D5
They say the devils in the details of this cunning, baffling habit
G5                   C5
I poured out all my Nyquil, I flushed my Sine-aid tablets
F5            E5            F5                   E5
?Don?t take others inventory,? ?Thanks for sharing your sick story
D5                       C5                        G5
If I bluff I know they?ll call it,  ?I?m Stuart, I?m an alcoholic?             (w/Fill 1)

D5                            C5
Dysfunction builds the strangest sages, quoting pointless daily phrases
D5                     C5            G5
The Big Book is omniscient, and I?m not self-sufficient
F5              E5                          D5                        G5
Dependency?s still coursing through my blood, I?m only changing drugs





(w/palm muting  for the next 2 lines)

C5                          B5
It?s a self-perpetuating business, you can?t cure a life-long sickness
C5                             G5
Hazelden cleaned out my parents, but my stay was 14 carat
F5            E5              C5                D5
Inner peace is what we seek at fifteen hundred bucks a week
D5                        C5
Treatment?s just a new psychosis, need and weakness through hypnosis
D5                      C5             G5
The Big Book is omniscient, and I?m not self-sufficient
F5               E5                    D5                              G5
Dependency?s still coursing through my blood, I?m only changing drugs


Outro ? G5  D5 G5  C5  F5 E5  FEmin
D5 C5 G5


Fill 1 (add between verses w/ad lib soloing)

E
B
G      0
D     0-2
A
E