Standard tuning

No capo

[Intro]
D5           A5
La da da da da da
B5          F#5
La da da da da da
B5        F#5       B5        A5
La da da, la da da, la da da, la da da
D5           A5
La da da da da da,
B5          F#5
La da da da da da
G5        D5         A5        D5
La da da da da da, La da da da

[Verse 1]
( D5 )        A5
I was born old
       B5           F#5
I grew up but I got younger
       B5       F#5
I was torn, and cold
        B5                    A5
Now I?m fine but there?s this hunger
      G5               A5
And a thirst for the days
       D5           F#5
Before I went and razed it all
G5   A5   D5
To the ground

[Verse 2]
Got a job, found God
I did everything they told me
Spoiled the child, spared the rod
And found someone new to hold me
Though the love?s not as real
As what I used to feel when it
All went wrong

[Chorus]
D5           A5
La da da da da da,
B5          F#5
La da da da da da
G5        D5         A5        D5
La da da da da da, La da da da

[Verse 3]
She was young, not scared - she was everything I wanted
I was dumb, unprepared - had no idea that I was haunted
By the ghosts of a life the night I hid the knives
And it all went wrong

[Verse 4]
It?s an old wound, but it opened in a new way
In a rest room in a rest stop on the thruway
She calls up her parents
And admits with embarrassment
        B5
She was wrong

[Bridge]
G5                A5
Speaking of your mother
B5             A5
This is how it goes:
         G5               A5
When the world gets you down
     B5
I suppose
G5          A5             B5
You can fly away somewhere else
G5           A5
Of your own volition
B5          A5
Of your own accord
            G5                A5
When you?re sad, when you?re angry
            B5
When you?re bored,
       G5               A5           B5
You?ve got to do what?s best for yourself
G5        A5           D5            B5
Ooo ooo ooooo ooo oo oo oo oo oo oo
G5           A5
La da da da dum

[Verse 5]
I awoke; you were gone
There was nothing left to hold onto
I was blind, I was wrong
But I could find you if I want to
So I fly to the coast where
The boys you love most
Sing into your eyes

[Verse 6]
I was lost, now I?m found
I can see, but miss the blindness
Here?s my cross; pound
It?s your mouth, your kiss, your kindness
My stigmata?s the regret for how
I could have let it all
Go so wrong

[Bridge 2]
          G5           A5
I?m going back to the place
            D5             A5
Where they laughed in my face
        G5   A5
When it all went
D5   B5
All went
G5   A5    B5
All went wrong
       G5   A5
Yes it all went -
       D5            B5
Isn?t this what you wanted, darling?
G5   A5
All went...

[Chorus]