Capo 2nd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

Verse

Chorus

: 022200 : x2444x

: x02300 : x0244x

: x24500 : 244xxx

//: Tacet (stop)

Intro

 Well, I'm lost

 I'm afraid

Rope tying down a leaky boat

 To the roof of a car on a road in the dark and it's snowing

 If I'm more then it means less

Last call for happiness

 I'm your dress near the back of your knees and your slip is showing

 I'm a float in a summer parade

 Up the street in the town that you were born in

 With a girl at the top wearing tulle

 And a Miss Somewhere sash, waving like the queen

Chorus

Well beauty's just another word

 I'm never certain how to spell

 Go tell the nurse to turn the T.V . back on

Throw away my misery

 It never meant that much to me

//

It never sent a get-well card.

 And I'm broke, like a bad joke

Somebody's uncle told

 At a wedding reception in nineteen seventy-two

 Where a little boy under a table with cake in his hair

Stared at the grown-up feet as they danced and swayed

(Let all chords ring until chorus)

 And his father laughed and talked on the long ride home

 And his mother laughed and talked on the long ride home

 And he thought about how everyone dies someday

 And when tomorrow gets here, where will yesterday be

 And fell asleep in his brand new winter coat

Chorus

Buy me a shiny new machine that runs on lies and gasoline

And all those batteries we stole from smoke alarms

And disassembles my despair

 It never took me anywhere

//

It never once bought me a drink