Intro pattern (repeat 2x)**
   D5
E | --------------------1--------- |     **also play at end of first chorus
B | ------------------3---3----3-- | 
G | ---------------2---------2---- | 
D | --0-(let ring)---------------- | 
A | ------------------------------ | 
E | ------------------------------ | 

D5            C5                Bb5
Just down the street from your hotel, baby
D5        C5            Bb5
I stay at home with my disease
D5             C5          Bb5
And ain't this position familiar, darling
D5                C5            Bb5
Well, all monkeys do what they see
G5                        Bb5
Help me stay awake, I'm falling...

Down on Virginia and La Loma
Where I got friends who'll care for me
You got an attitude of everything I ever wanted
I got an attitude of need
Help me stay awake, I'm falling...

CHORUS:
    F5         C5            Bb5
    Asleep in perfect blue buildings
    F5          C5           Bb5
    Beside the green apple sea
    F5              C5       Bb5
    Gonna get me a little oblivion, baby
    F5             C5     Bb5        1. D5 **   2.              F5
    Try to keep myself away from     |  me        |  (myself and) me
                                     |            | 

It's 4:30 A.M. on a Tuesday
It doesn't get much worse than this
In beds in little rooms in buildings in the middle
of these lives which are completely meaningless
Help me stay awake, I'm falling...

(CHORUS)


I got bones beneath my skin, and mister...
There's a skeleton in every man's house
Beneath the dust and love and sweat that hangs on everybody
There's a dead man trying to get out
Please help me stay awake, I'm falling...

(CHORUS)