Standard (EADGBE)

  alt: (x02200)

A fantastic and simple song...the tempo starts slow and picks up as it goes. This

is how I like to play it. To make for easier playing you can use the alternate

version of Asus2 throughout (I believe Mat himself does this live sometimes). I

think the fuller one sounds better, but both give the same effect. Happy playing :)

Verse

 I'm sure that I'm moving to St Louis

 Three long years wondering here in New York City

 I guess I'm looking for the right way to do this

 I guess I'm looking for the right things to call pretty

Pre-chorus

 Young boys playing in the park turning their backs to take a shot

 You know I'll stay sharp around here 'cause they're stoning and leaving type

 It's the kind of love that comes and goes when there's company coming around

Chorus

What's a boy to do who knows no man now?

What's a boy to do who knows no man now?

Verse

Daddy's been looking down his nose at all of them

And I've been looking round for someone to tell me who I am

He kept saying I was to young to finish a fight

I'd die each time they came I never got to draw my knife

Pre-chorus

Well it was just a pair of shoes in a middle school room with the world watching in

And angel is crying I'm dying just a little inside as they ran away

Funny which words stick around 20 years down when you're driving alone

Chorus

What's a boy to do when there's no man at home?

What's a boy to do when there's no man at home?

Bridge 1

 Well I'll stack all my books in perfect rows

 From the biggest down to the smallest ones

 And I buy all the perfect clothes

 Bullet proof and black, where I look like a son...

Pre-chorus

Well it was just a rain night at his house

A bottle spinning around the room

And everybody's singing and slipping down the bottom halfway rush of blood

And I was grabbing Missy but I was trying to find the light switch in the dark

Chorus

What's a boy to do with no man in his heart?

What's a boy to do with no man in his heart?

Bridge 2

 It's all quiet for the first time

 With no voices left to fall I saw

 a boy at the bottom of the bridge

 His car was left there on the top

 It's four o'clock in the morning

 Didn't need to be like this

 There's a white sheet left to cover up

 What should have been a holy kiss

 It's not like those days

It's not like I'm scared of you

Chorus

 What's the son of man and a boy to do?

 What's the son of man and a boy to you?