Capo 2nd fret
Standard (EADGBE)
Verse
Chorus
: 022200 : x2444x
: x02300 : x0244x
: x24500 : 244xxx
//: Tacet (stop)
Intro
Well, I'm lost
I'm afraid
Rope tying down a leaky boat
To the roof of a car on a road in the dark and it's snowing
If I'm more then it means less
Last call for happiness
I'm your dress near the back of your knees and your slip is show ing
I'm a float in a summer parade
Up the street in the town that you were born in
With a girl at the top wearing tulle
And a Miss Somewhere sash, waving like the queen
Chorus
Well beauty's just another word
I'm never certain how to spel l
Go tell the nurse to turn the T.V . back on
Throw away my misery
It never meant that much to me
//
It never sent a get-well card.
And I'm broke, like a bad joke
Somebody's uncle told
At a wedding reception in nineteen seventy- two
Where a little boy under a table with cake in his hair
Stared at the grown-up feet as they danced and swayed
(Let all chords ring until chorus)
And his father laughed and talked on the long ride home
And his mother laughed and talked on the long ride home
And he thought about how everyone dies some day
And when tomorrow gets here, where will yesterday be
And fell asleep in his brand new winter coat
Chorus
Buy me a shiny new machine that runs on lies and gaso line
And all those batteries we stole from smoke alarms
And disassembles my despair
It never took me anyw here
//
It never once bought me a drink