Standard (EADGBE)

Baby, this letter might be hard to read

 But I’ve got a strong need to get it all down

 It’s noon and I’m lyin’ on the bunk in the back of the bus

 I got thinkin’ about us while I’m bouncing around

 The rising star just ridin’ along with the rest of the guys

 Smoking and gettin’ high like he does each trip

 ‘Bout two o’clock he’ll say I think I’ll sip some crow

 By the time of the show the rising star will be ripped

Later on when the job is done we’re back on the bus

 He’ll turn to the guys and smile in a funny way

 And say tell me once again how good I played

 And they call him the rising star and they say he’s gonna go far

 But each night he gets far (?) he ever believed

Something inside me grieves cause sure as hell one day

 They say the rising star will fade away

Last night the rising star got lost with a girl for an hour or so

Barely made the shoe, kinda stumbled on

Forgot the words to the song he wrote about his wife

Said guess that’s life but I was wrong

Cause every night when I go on I’m the rising star

Me and my guitar start to get it on

Living is when they stand and cheering and call my name

But I’ll try to change before too long

Something about the here and now said drop a line

To say I’m fine but I’d like to say not every rising star fades away

And they call me the rising star, baby I’m gonna go far

With you beside me I swear by the pen in my hand

I’ll be damned if you ever gone to see the day

That drunken, stoned and all alone, You’ll see this rising star fade away