Early Out The Gate Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

[The pauses between some of the lines]

WGhat you're looking for isF never what C you find *1

NGothing everF seems to turn C out right *1

AmStill running around stilG l searching

all these Flong indifferenC t streets

For your Amlover or somG e cover

to pFrotect you from thC e heat

That you feel inG side *2

iFnflamed since youG learnedC to cry

GEver since you learned tFo walk you C ran away *1

Gkept running till yoFu couldn't feel yC our legs *1

Now you Amstumble round thisG drunken town

pawn Fshops and tittC y bars

telling Amtales of just hoG w far you got

But theFy'll all know who yoC u are

Yeah you're not so gG reat *2

You're just FearlGy out of C the gate

there's a pGortrait of youFr mom when she C was young *1

Her fGace was shininFg brightly as C the sun *1

The Amson who gotG away from her

but Fcame back homC e again

to Amfind a womeG n wrapped

with all this lFove she couldn'C t give

But you know she G did *2

You just Fcouldn'Gt feelC it then

Found a Gbirthday card from thisF lady I usedC to know *1

It said Gboy you're reallyF starting to C get old *1

She's the Ammother of mG y mother

I Fknew just what shC e meant

She'd Ambeen through iG t before

she'd known ofF all of this C resentment

becomesG regret *2

I just Fhadn'tG gotten thC ere yet *1

AmNothing eveGr seems to turnF out right

No Amnever, neveGr seems to turnF out right

So I leave it at G this *2

my FdGeepesC t regret