Standard (EADGBE)

[The pauses between some of the lines]

 What you're looking for is never what you find *1

 Nothing ever seems to turn out right *1

Still running around still searching

 all these long indifferent streets

 For your lover or some cover

 to protect you from the heat

 That you feel inside *2

 inflamed since you learned to cry

Ever since you learned to walk you ran away *1

kept running till you couldn't feel your legs *1

 Now you stumble round this drunken town

 pawn shops and titty bars

 telling tales of just how far you got

 But they'll all know who you are

 Yeah you're not so great *2

 You're just early out of the gate

 there's a portrait of your mom when she was young *1

 Her face was shining brightly as the sun *1

 The son who got away from her

 but came back home again

 to find a women wrapped

 with all this love she couldn't give

 But you know she did *2

 You just couldn't feel it then

 Found a birthday card from this lady I used to know *1

 It said boy you're really starting to get old *1

 She's the mother of my mother

 I knew just what she meant

 She'd been through it before

 she'd known of all of this resentment

 becomes regret *2

 I just hadn't gotten there yet *1

Nothing ever seems to turn out right

 No never, never seems to turn out right

 So I leave it at this *2

 my deepest regret