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Intro

She lifts her skirt up to her knees

 Walks through the garden rows with her bare feet, laughing

I never learned to count my blessings

 I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

Walk on down the hill

 Through the grass grown tall and brown

 And still it's hard somehow to let go of my pain

On past the busted back

 Of this old and rusted Cadillac

 That sinks into this field collecting rain

Will I always feel this way

So empty, so estranged

Of these cutthroat busted sunsets,

 These cold and damp white mornings I have grown weary

If through my cracked and dusty dime store lips

 I spoke these words out loud would no one hear me

Lay your blouse across the chair

 Let fall the flowers from your hair

 And kiss me with that country mouth so plain

Outside the rain is tapping on the leaves

To me it sounds like they're

applauding us, the quiet love we make

Will I always feel this way

So empty, so estranged

Harmonica

Well I looked my demons in the eyes

 Laid bare my chest said do your best and destroy me

See I've been to hell and back so many times

 I must admit you kind of bore me

There's a lot of things that can kill a man

 There's a lot of ways to die

 Yes and some already dead who walk beside you

There's a lot of things I don't understand

 Why so many people lie

Well it's the hurt you hide that fuels the fires inside you

Will I always feel this way

So empty, so estranged

Harmonica