What Jail Is Like

From: "Manuel Zanzi"
Subject: a/afgnan_whigs/*
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 1998 03:16:18 PDT


What jail is Like
Written By: Greg Dulli
Album: Gentlemen
Transcribed and submitted by Manuel 
Zanzi (*)

Chords used:
C#m: x46654
B:   799877 (in verse) x24442 (in 
chorus)
Ab:  466544
A:   577655
E:   x79997

Intro Chords:
C#m (let ring)  Ab  A x2

Verse Chords (for each chord one 
measure):
part1:

part2:
(distortion kicks in)
C#m - C#m - C#m - C#m
Continues after the ad
C#m - C#m - C#m - C#m

Chorus (distortion):

Riff under Intro and The first part 
of verse:
This is not totally accurate, mainly
 because It's pretty hard to
transcribe Piano. It sounds Ok.

   C#m          B            Ab     
e--------------------------------
B--------------------------------
G----------6------------6--------
D------9-----9-7----9-----9-7----
A--------------------------------
E--(9)----------(7)----------(4)-
        A
e|---------------------------| 
B|----------7-9-7------------| 
G|----6-----------9-7-9-6----| 
D|9-----9-7------------------| 
A|---------------------------| 
E|---------(5)---------------| 


Riff under Chorus:
   B               C#m             
e--2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2/4-4-4-4-4-4-4-
B--4-4-4-4-4-4-4-4/5-5-5-5-5-5-5-
G--------------------------------
D--------------------------------
A--------------------------------
E--------------------------------
  E             E
e|4/1212121212121212121212/151515-| 
B|5/1212121212121212121212/151515-| 
G|--------------------------------| 
D|--------------------------------| 
A|--------------------------------| 
E|--------------------------------| 

Lyrics:

Intro

Verse1:
  C#m              B            
     I'll warn you, if cornered,
Ab                A
 I'll scratch my way out of the pen
  C#m      B       Ab   
     Wired, an animal. The 
             A
claustrophobia begins
  C#m
     You think I'm scared of girls, 
Well maybe
     But I'm not afraid of you
     You want to scare me then 
you'll cling to me no matter what I 
do
Verse2:
  C#m        B         Ab        
     Tell you a secret  They 
      A
shared a needle once or twice
  C#m            B            Ab 
     I loved her, she loved me  
           A
We slept together a couple of times
  C#m
     You think I'm proud of this, 
Well maybe
     But the shame you never lose
     Infatuated with a lunatic and 
cornered by the muse
Chorus1:
 B                        C#m     
   And it goes           down 
             E
every           niiiiiight
   This must be         what jail is
 really   liiiiiike
   And I will scratch my way out of 
this      peeeeeen,   again

Verse part1

Verse3:
  C#m              B            
     Lonely?        Maybe       
Ab           A
   Or maybe not, It all depends
  C#m           B            Ab  
     Your ideal, your image     
         A
Your definition of a friend
  C#m
     If what you're shoveling is 
company
     Then I'd rather be alone
     Resentment always goes much 
further than it was supposed to go

Repeat Chorus

Repeat Verse1 until "an animal".
end on C#m