Tabbed by: David Long


Starts in G minor, 3/4 time

I can't speak for the lyrics, but I'm confident the chords are right.
Unfortunately the formatting on this page doesn't allow me to situate the chord names
directly above the word where it changes, so you'll have to feel the changes yourself.
Pay attention to key changes and the way certain chords switch between major and minor 
in some instances.

I took some creative license with the intro, which I play as follows:

e | --3------------------------1------------1---------- | 
B | --3-------3----------4-----3--------------4-2-1---- | 
G | --3--2-0--2----------3-----0h2-0-----3------------- | 
D | ----------3--2-0-----5--0--------3-4--------------- | 
A | ------------------6-------------------------------- | 
E | --------------------------------------------------- | 

e | --3------------------------1------------1------------1/6-4-- | 
B | --3-------3----------4-----3--------------4-3-2----2-------- | 
G | --3--2-0--2----------3-----0h2-0-----3-----------3---------- | 
D | ----------3--2-0-----5--0--------3-4------------------------ | 
A | ------------------6----------------------------------------- | 
E | ------------------------------------------------------------ | 

[This melody leads directly into the verse, which can be achieved almost entirely with 
bar chords:]


         G5        D5        Eb5           D5
I'm not above drinking alone but no good ever comes of it,

   Eb5
unless you count me talking to you now

       G5           D5       Eb5        D5
So, have you been hurt? Did you hurt someone?

           Eb5
Did you get all crashed down upon?

        C#5        A5          E5         Ab5
Me, I'm a friend to the friendless not that I chose it

          C#5     A5         Ab5
and if I had well then who knows?


[For the next line two lines you can either repeat  Gm > Dm > Eb7 > D7 > Ebm ,
holding out the last chord until "money," or you can sing along to the introductory 
melody as shown below]

But that one guy on the train all talking to himself, shit he's talking to
e | -----3------------------------1------------1---------- | 
B | -----3-------3----------4-----3--------------4-2-1---- | 
G | -----3--2-0--2----------3-----0h2-0-----3------------- | 
D | -------------3--2-0-----5--0--------3-4--------------- | 
A | ----------------------6------------------------------- | 
E | ------------------------------------------------------ | 

          me, he's saying "At school they taught me a prayer for
e | -----------1----------1---------1----------1------- | 
B | ---------2---2------2---2------2--2------2---2----- | 
G | ---3---3------3---3------3---3-----3---3----------- | 
D | -----4----------4----------4---------4------------- | 
A | --------------------------------------------------- | 
E | --------------------------------------------------- | 


   G5         D5          Eb5          D5
money, a prayer for crap jobs right till I die

           G5    D5    Eb5      F5          G5
never a prayer for people, the brokenhearted the lonely"

        G5         D5         Eb5            D5
Did you let the blues make you bad

  Eb5
Did you get all twisted?

                    G5           D5           Eb5            D5
Did you get so drunk you whispered  "I think I'm gonna die?"

         Eb5
Did you pass nights wondering why you never saw it coming?

C#5   A5      E5     Ab5    C#5    A5 
      Ab5
Nobody ever sees it coming, no exceptions at all

  C#5   A5      E5      Ab5    C#5    
A5       Ab5
I said nobody ever sees it coming, no exceptions at all

        A5           F5             C5          E5
I'm a friend to the friendless and I don't care

            F5
If I had a choice in this it wouldn't be fair

        A5            F5            C5            E5
but I don't so let's not get all carried away

      F5
with shit you wouldn't change anyway,

      F5                     E5
let's make this a prayer for

   C#5        A5              E5              Ab5
money, a prayer for Sundays through Mondays

 C#5        A5         Ab5
and crap jobs right til I die.

   A5           C#5           E5            Ab5
Because where we are now we won't always be

          A5                    Eb5
and shit man that could be me

      G5                   D5                Eb5              
    D5
getting hurt, hurting someone getting all crashed down upon

       Eb5
burning holes in butterfly's

   G5         D5        Eb5        D5        Eb5
wings, wishing, wishing, wishing, wish for other things

C#5   A5          E5        Ab5     C#5   
A5        Ab5
Nobody ever sees it coming, no exceptions at all

A5    C#5      E5        Ab5        A5        
     Eb5
Nobody ever sees it coming, are you ready for this?

 G5            D5          Eb5        D5
Never wear white socks with black shoes

 Eb5
Don't get all twisted

G5           D5         Eb5       D5
Don't let the blues make you bad

 Eb5
I know you miss him

     C#5          A5      E5         Ab5
Don't let your standards fall down with your hair

        C#5   A5             Ab5
How it felt when you kissed her

C#5            A5      E5              Ab5
Straighten your tie, tuck in your shirt

         A5                  F5
I'm a friend to the friendless

   C5                    E5                  F5
And I don't know why but come on kids, just walk right on by

     A5               F5             C5             E5
I know you are lonely, you'll not always be

 F5                                                     E5
You are so many things you will not always be.

e | --3------------------------1------------1---6--4--- | 
B | --3-------3----------4-----3--------------4-------- | 
G | --3--2-0--2----------3-----0h2-0-----3------------- | 
D | ----------3--2-0-----5--0--------3-4--------------- | 
A | ------------------6-------------------------------- | 
E | --------------------------------------------------- |