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

(Band In)

F              Em9            F             Em9
Now I do my weekly bleeding at trendy AA meetings

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

G                        D
I choke out clich? confessions, I suck down coffee black
G                      C
I chain smoke cigarettes between handfuls of Prozac
F                Em9           F            Em9
Man am I one sober stallion, I just got my first medallion
D                      C
My higher power drug me, I?m letting strangers hug me (w/Fill 1)

D                      C
Now I really crave a meeting, all those soothing empty greetings
D                      C
The Big Book is omniscient and I?m not self-sufficient
F               Em9                    D                        G
Dependency?s still coursing through my blood, I?m only changing drugs

G                          D
Self help study, twelve step program , which hollow slogan was it?
G                  C
 We found serenity  and  Day by Day  or  Easy does it ?
F         Em9            F           Em9
Plant that affirmation seed, our license plate should read
D
 Ten thousand lakes and treatment centres,
C                        G
Betty Ford?s our statewide mentor        (w/ Fill 1)

G                           D
They say the devils in the details of this cunning, baffling habit
G                   C
I poured out all my Nyquil, I flushed my Sine-aid tablets
F            Em9            F                   Em9
?Don?t take others inventory,? ?Thanks for sharing your sick story
D                       C                        G
If I bluff I know they?ll call it,  ?I?m Stuart, I?m an alcoholic?             (w/Fill 1)

D                            C
Dysfunction builds the strangest sages, quoting pointless daily phrases
D                     C            G
The Big Book is omniscient, and I?m not self-sufficient
F              Em9                          D                        G
Dependency?s still coursing through my blood, I?m only changing drugs





(w/palm muting  for the next 2 lines)

C                          B
It?s a self-perpetuating business, you can?t cure a life-long sickness
C                             G
Hazelden cleaned out my parents, but my stay was 14 carat
F            Em9              C                D
Inner peace is what we seek at fifteen hundred bucks a week
D                        C
Treatment?s just a new psychosis, need and weakness through hypnosis
D                      C             G
The Big Book is omniscient, and I?m not self-sufficient
F               Em9                    D                              G
Dependency?s still coursing through my blood, I?m only changing drugs


Outro ? G  D G  C  F Em9  FEmin
D C G


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

E
B
G      0
D     0-2
A
E