Standard (EADGBE)

 I've been high, I've been down LINE 1

 my head in the clouds, my hands in the ground LINE 2

 in the arms of a woman, I find my way home LINE 3

 in the arms of a woman, I have been lost LINE 4

Chorus

 when I'm so lost that this losing feels like dying

 I hope you'll be by me then

 when I'm so lost that this losing feels like dying

 I hope you'll be by me then

 as a young man, I was afraid

 of my life, what would I make?

 I will make love, what will I hate?

 what bittersweet road will I choose to the grave?

Chorus

 if I'm so old 'til this oldness has me dying

 I hope you'll be by me then

 if I'm so old 'til this oldness has me dying

 I hope you'll be by me then

 I'm sick of you, I'm sick of me

 I'm sick of war, I'm sick of peace

 I'm sick of sound like I'm sick of silence

 I grow sick of the darkness 'til I'm sick of the light

Chorus

 when I'm so sick that this sickness has me dying

 I hope you'll be by me then

 when I'm so sick that this sickness has me dying

 I hope you'll be by me then

 I hope you'll be by me then

Bridge

 once as a boy, I saw what happened

 I saw them beat him down to the cold, cold ground

 I watched those big boys beat that man down

 I was too weak, too weak to take a stand

Chorus

 when I'm so weak that this weakness feels like dying

 I hope you'll be by me then

 when I'm so weak that this weakness feels like dying

 I hope you'll be by me then

 and if I'm old 'til this oldness feels has me dying

 I hope you'll be by me then

 so I will live as I see fit

 and there will be those who will not like it

 in the arms of a woman, I found my way home

 so to the arms of a woman, I will always go

 if I'm old 'til this oldness has me dying

 I hope she'll be by me then

 if I'm old 'til this oldness has me dying