INTRO RIFF: 
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   Dm 
E | --------------------1--------- |  
B | ------------------3---3----3-- |  
G | ---------------2---------2---- |  
D | --0--------------------------- |  
A | ------------------------------ |  
E | ------------------------------ |  
 
 
D5            C5                Bb5     A5 
Just down the street from your hotel, baby 
D5        C5              Bb5 
I stay at home with my disease 
D5             C5          Bb5      A5 
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            G5 
    Asleep in perfect blue buildings 
    F5          C5           G5 
    Beside the green apple sea 
    F5              C5       G5       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) 
 
INSTRUMENTAL: 
F5           C5           G5           Bb5       

F5           C5           G5           Bb5       
 
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) x3