Capo 1st fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Shes fighting with the sky

She thinks she can

Livin within a lie

She thinks she can

But nobody knows what lies behind

The days before the day we die

Die, die, die, die, die, die, die

Die, die, die, die, die, die, die

 Die, die, die

She puts her hands against

The life she had

Living with ignorance

Blissful and sad

But nobody knows what lies behind

The days before the day we die

Die, die, die, die, die, die, die

Die, die, die, die, die, die, die

 Die, die, die

You can try to swim the sea

But say goodbye to you and me

You can try to swim the sea

You can try to hold the breeze

You can try to hide the sun

But say goodbye to everyone

Die, die, die, die, die, die, die

Die, die, die, die, die, die, die

 Die, die, die

Okay so I was wrong about

 My reasons for us fallin out

 Of love I want to fall back in

My life is different now I swear

 I know now what it means to care

 About somebody other than myself

I know the things I said to you

 They were untender and untrue

 Id like to see those things undo

So if you could find it in your heart

 To give a man a second start

 I promise things wont end the same

(Chorus)

Shame, boatloads of shame

 Day after day, more of the same

Blame, please lift it off

 Please take it off, please make it stop

Okay so I have read the mail

 The stories people often tell

 About us that we never knew

But their existence will float away

 And just like every word they say

 And we will hold hands as they fade

(Chorus)

Shame, boatloads of shame

 Day after day, more of the same

Blame, please lift it off

 Please take it off, please make it stop

(Bridge)

I felt so sure of everything

 My love to you so well received

 And I just strutted around your town

 Knowing I didnt let you down

 The truth be known, the truth be told

 My heart was always fairly cold

 Posing to be as warm as yours

 My way of getting in your world

 But now Im out and Ive had time

To look around and think

 And sink into another world

 Thats filled with guilt and overwhelming

(Chorus)

Shame, boatloads of shame

 Day after day, more of the same

Blame, please lift it off

 Please take it off, please make it stop

And everyone they have a heart

 And when they break and fall apart

 And need somebodys helping hand

I used to say just let em fall

 It wouldnt bother me at all

 I couldnt help them now I can

Intro

I keep telling myself that itll be fine

 You cant make everybody happy all of the time

I find myself in a place that I never been

 A place that I thought that I would never be

Theres people looking back at me

 (Empty measure or )

I keep having this dream Im at a party

 Theres people throwing drinks and screaming

 telling me that I dont belong

Lately lifes been the same I find this comfortable place

 With all my friends then my friends start telling me that

Ive always been wrong

 Im so tired of being wrong

Interlude

There was a time I could move there was a time I could breathe

 Through crowded spaces filled with angry faces

 It didnt once cross my mind

With paranoia on my heels will you love me still

 when we awake and you find that the sanity has gone from my eyes? Heea!

- yeah!

(Empty measure or G, drum taps)

I got secrets from you, you got secrets from me

 Because youre so worried about what Im gonna think,

 Baby Im worried too

But if love is a game, girl, then youre gonna win

 Ill spend the rest of my life bringing victory in

 If you want me to yeah!

- yeah!

La... La.. La.. La..

Intro

[G/f#] X2

Verse 1

[G/f#]

Disappear from your hometown

Go and find the people that you know

[G/f#]

Show them all your good parts

Leave town when bad ones start to show

[G/f#]

Go and wed a woman

A pretty girl that youve never met

[G/f#]

Make sure she knows you love her well

But dont make any other promises

Chorus 1

 The weight of lies will bring you down

 And follow you to every town

 Cause nothing happens here that doesnt happen there

 So when you run make sure you run

 To something and not away from

 Cause lies dont need an aero-plane to chase you anywhere

[G/f#]

Verse2

I once heard the worse thing

A man could do is draw a hungry crowd

Tell everyone his name, pride, and confidence

But leaving out his doubt

Im not sure I bought those words

When I was young I knew most everything

These words have never met as much to anyone

As they now mean to me

Chorus2

The weight of lies will bring you down

And follow you to every town

Cause nothing happens here that doesnt happen there

So when you run make sure you run

To something and not away from

Cause lies dont need an aero-plane to chase you down

Repeat Intro

Repeat Chorus 1

Repeat Chorus 2

(One-two-three-four)

Verse

 I open my door

 And here's what occurs

 A pretty little gal

 With pretty little curls

 leans to the si-i-ide

 leans on my mi-i-ind

 I dont wanna live

 But I sure don't wanna die

 I'm stutterin again

 And telling her goodbye

 Oh m-m-my-y-y good --by-y-ye

Chorus

 Will you come again it's hard to say

I surely hope so

 Will you come again it's hard to say

I surely hope so

Verse

She walks up to me

With something more to say

Than hello and goodbye

I hope that youre okay

well im doing fi-i-ine

Im doing fi-i-ine

Repeat Chorus

Bridge

Piano 4 bars

Piano/Banjo 4 bars

I wish youd see yourself as beautiful as I see you

 Why cant you see yourself as beautiful as i see you

Verse

I open my door

And this is what I see

A hope inside a girl?

Looking back at me

oh m-m-my-y-y, good b-b-by-y-ye

Repeat Chorus

Love writes a letter and sends it to hate.

 My vacations ending. Im coming home late.

 The weather was fine and the ocean was great

 and I cant wait to see you again.

Hate reads the letter and throws it away.

"No one here cares if you go or you stay.

 I barely even noticed that you were a---way.

 Ill see you or I wot, whatever."

Love sings a song as she sails through the sky.

 The water looks bluer through her pretty eyes.

 And everyone knows it whenever she flies,

 and also when she comes down.

Hate keeps his head up and walks through the street.

Every stranger and drifter he greets.

 And shakes hands with every loner he meets

 with a serious look on his face.

Love arrives safely with suitcase in tow.

Carrying with her the good things we know.

 A reason to live and a reason to grow.

 To trust. To hope. To care.

Hate sits alone on the hood of his car.

 Without much regard to the moon or the stars.

Lazily killing the last of a jar

 of the strongest stuff you can drink.

Love takes a taxi, a young man drives.

 As soon as he sees her, hope fills his eyes.

 But tears follow after, at the end of the ride,

 cause he might never see her again.

Hate gets home lucky to still be alive.

 He screams oer the sidewalk and into the drive.

 The clock in the kitchen says two fifty five,

 And the clock in the kitchen is slow.

Love has been waiting, patient and kind.

 Just wanting a phone call or some kind of sign,

 That the one that she cares for, whos out of his mind,

 Will make it back safe to her arms.

Hate stumbles forward and leans in the door.

Weary head hung, eyes to the floor.

 He says "Love, Im sorry", and she says, "What for?

 Im your and thats it, Whatever.

 I should not have been gone for so long.

 Im yours and thats it, forever."

 Youre mine and thats it, forever.

Salina, Im as nowhere as I can be

 Could you add some somewhere to me

 Ah Kansas Im kneeling, ah Kansas please

Cleveland, I aint never felt nothing so strong

 Been believing the words to my songs

Ohio Im leaving, Ohio Im gone

From town to town and state to state

 Theres people everywhere that try to capture us

We stole the cash and left our names

 And almost slipped in Indianapolis

 The rain it fell, the story went on

 The rain it fell, and we got gone

Poughkeepsie, hang up the telephone

 Wont answer your phone calls no more

New York quit callin, New York leave me be

Changing the plans that Ive been setting on

 Im scared by the way that my life is getting gone

Carolina one day Ill, someday Ill come home

Carolina one day Ill, someday Ill come home

I'm no more than a friend girl

I can see that you need more

my boots are on my feet now

 my back is by the door

the love and the attention

that you need and ask me for

 are weakened by my absence

 and the lies that i have told

Chorus

Im scared to think that Ive abandoned you

Id like to say that Im a faithful man but

it may not be true

My heart is like a masons

heavy weathered skin

each scar makes it harder

 for me to hurt again

Im scared to think that Ive abandoned you

Id like to say that Im a faithful man but

Interlude

Gabriella, the things that I tell ya,

 are only to help ya, are they working ou---ou--out.

 have I gone, have I gone and failed ya,

 oh, Gabriella, have I let you down---own...

Solo

Gabriella, the things that I tell ya,

 are only to help ya, are they working ou---ou--out.

 I have I gone, have I gone and failed ya,

 oh, Gabriella, have I let you down---own...

x2

PLAY MESSAGE

REPEAT CHORDS WITH ELECTRICITY!

**Intro**

, , , Then, (still in the shape) play

Shooting off vicious collections of words

The losers make facts by the things they have heard

 And I find myself trying hard to defend them

I made decisions some right and some wrong

 And I let some love go I wish wasn't gone

These things and more I wish I had not done

 But I've done

But I can't go back

 And I don't want to

 'Cause all my mistakes

They brought me to you

I have some "friends" they don't know who I am

So I write quotations around the word friends

But I have a couple that have always been there for me

 And I missed some fun cause I worked through the dawn

 Expecting your praise when I returned home

 But I paid the cost cause I got left alone for the songs

But I can't go back

 And I don't want to

 'Cause all my mistakes

They brought me to you

For just the chance to find

Love with someone that you love to find

For just the sense to try

To walk ahead and leave the pain behind

If the days arent easy, and the nights are rough

When they ask you what you're thinking of

Chorus

 Say love, say for me love

 Say love, say for me love

Your heart says not again

What kind of mess have you got me in?

But when the feelings there

It can lift you up, take you anywhere

With the gravel beneath you and the limbs above

If anybody asks you where you're coming from

Chorus

Say yes we live uncertainty and disappointments have to be

 And everyday we might be facing more

And yes we live in desparate times with faded words and shakey rhymes

 Theres only one thing here worth hoping for

With Lucifer beneath you and God above

If anyone of them asks you what youre living of

Chorus

 There is on small riff between every transition from to . Simply walk down

3-2-0 on the E string.

I would be sad because you left me all alone.

I would be sad because the lies that you had told.

I would be sad because I got left by a girl that I adore.

I would be sad because the love I had before.

Verse 1

I meant what I said when I said I would settle down with you although I know

 its not something that you were asking me to do.

And I know we are young but we wont always be, so marry me; lets not be

 that predictable young couple changing, moving on.

But I can tell by watching you that theres no chance of pushing through.

 The odds are so against us; you know most young love it ends like this.

Chorus

I would be sad because you left me all alone.

I would be sad because the lies that you had told.

I would be sad because I got left by a girl that I adore.

I would be sad because the love I had before.

Verse 2

I meant what I said when I said I would rearrange my plans and

 change for you.

You know me; Ive always been the kind with easy confidence.

Confident enough to honestly beleive that nothing out there stopping me

 especially not someone who's not loving me.

Now listen here I told you I could live on with out loving you.

I was bluffing then, but it seems that just might have been the truth.

Well my dad told me, "One day son, this girl will think of what shes done

 and hurting you will be the first of many more regrets to come."

And he said, "If she doesnt call, then it's her fault and its her loss."

 I say, "Its not that simple see, but then again it just may be."

Chorus/Ending:

I would be sad because you left me all alone.

I would be sad because the lies that you had told.

I would be sad because I got left by a girl that I adore.

I would be sad because the love I had before.

I would be sad because the love I had before.

Tell her, tell her what Im thinkin

Tell her, tell her what Im dreamin

And, hey, she just might just understand

Baby would you listen to me

Come across the kitchen to me

And I will tell ya best I can

Bout how I know you love me

 And how I want to love you back

People, people, people, they make it sound so easy

They say just do what your heart tells you to

But sometimes you cannot feel it

Sometimes you cannot hear it

Sometimes it wont talk back to you

And yeah I know you love me

 And yeah I want to love you back

And how I know you love me

 And how I want to love you bad

Far away I hear the rhythm of a song

Far away I get the feeling I belong, and so do you

 And it goes like this

Oh no, no, dont want to leave you

Oh no, I want to keep you

Oh but I want to let you be

Oh no, I don’t want to hear you

Say I dont want to be near you

Oh but I’ve got to set you free

And how I know you love me

 And how I want to love you back

And yeah I know you love me

 And yeah I want to love you bad

Far away I hear the rhythm of a song

Far away I get the feeling I belong, and so do you

 And it goes like this

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la

Intro

LAY BACK LAY BACK GO TO SLEEP MY MAN

WIPE THE BLOOD FROM YOUR FACE AND YOUR HANDS

FORGIVE YOURSELF IF YOU THINK YOU CAN

GO TO SLEEP GO TO SLEEP MY MAN

21 DAYS LOST AT SEA I TOSSED

FOR TWENTY TWO YEARS NON STOP I FOUGHT

THROUGH THE DESERT PISS DRUNK AND CONFUSED I WALKED

I SPIT A TOOTH IN THE PALM OF MY HAND

LAY BACK LAY BACK GO TO SLEEP MY MAN

WIPE THE BLOOD FROM YOUR FACE AND YOUR HANDS

FORGIVE YOURSELF IF YOU THINK YOU CAN

GO TO SLEEP GO TO SLEEP MY MAN

WELL THE WIND AND THE TREES ARE GANGIN UP ON ME

THEY SING MY FUNERAL SONG IN HARMONY

I KEEP ASKING FOR HELP FROM MY COMPANY BUT

THEY KEEP SINGIN AND SINGIN TO ME (LA LA LA LA LA )

AND SINGING AND SINGING TO ME

I WISH THINGS WE DIFFERENT TRUE INDEED

BUT EVERYTHING IS SO SHALLOW, AS EVERYTHING ABOUT ME

I WISH I COULD JUST TAKE MY MONEY AND LEAVE

I HOPE THE PEOPLE ON THE GROUND UNDERSTAND

I HOPE THE PEOPLE OUT THERE WILL UNDERSTAND

LAY BACK LAY BACK GO TO SLEEP MY MAN

WIPE THE BLOOD FROM YOUR FACE AND YOUR HANDS

FORGIVE YOURSELF IF YOU THINK YOU CAN

GO TO SLEEP GO TO SLEEP MY MAN

Intro

I dreamt of a suit a suit so fine I dressed my words in

Sewn and tailor made with song in mind made of melody

Stitched by threads of notes with perfect pitch, perfectly composed

Sound in tune and key, a code of rhythm, and harmony

But when I awoke my coat was worn and my words were plain

Each song that I sang all the notes were wrong and poorly played

Both my sleeves had holes, my knees were patched, my shoes needed soles

No clever disguise no way to hide my offensive tone

But I, I wish for you more than I can give, than I can do

Yeah you, you deserve the best an anthem not my hand-me-down tune

Yeah you, you deserve the best an anthem not my hand-me-down tune

END!!!

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