Rotting Strip

G      C                  G     
Blurry eyes half bent and I 
           D
can’t take you sober
G                 C              
Tricking off the rotting strip 
   G
that we’ve been
         D
trudging under

Em               C                
We ducked into a dim lit room out 
 G               D
where the river bends
G                      C    
And turned to walk the burning 
               G
bridge that we would build
     D                        C
And crossed our hearts half hoping
     G         D          C
That we could both quit smoking
     G       D          C
And kick the booze and blow
     G      D        C           
And one day go make something of 
    D
ourselves
G      C                  G     
Glory came and went the night we
           D
 both slipped under
G      C                  G     
‘Neath the row of oil slicks and
           D
 ancient ugly lovers
Em               C                
Some they say the price you pay is
 G               D
 far too much to spend
G                        C       
But they don’t know the cost is 
            G
fair if for a while
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     D                        C
It keeps your heart from crumbling

         G                         
And we’d take what we want when we 
 C
knew what we wanted
         D                         
When we wished we had something to 
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lose
          C           G           
You were a fine young thing 
          C
crammed in your tight red vinyl
 G
jeans
         C           Em        
I was a third rate going nowhere 
   C                   D
burning for nothing to do

G      C                  G     
Boredom settled in and I can’t 
           D
take you sober
G                 C              
Strewn across the rotting strip 
   G
that we’ve been building
D
over

Em               C            
‘Til nothing made its wicked way 
     G               D
slow creeping into view
G                      C         
Where we could watch the burning 
          G
bridge that we half built
D                      C
Across our hearts now broken
     G         D          C
And we could both quit smoking
     G         D          C
And kick the booze and blow
     G       D         C         
And one day go make something of 
    D
ourselves

         G                         
And we’d take what we want when we 
 C
knew what we wanted
         D                         
When we wished we had something to 
 G
lose
           C           G          
You were a fine young thing 
           C
crammed in your tight red vinyl 
jeans
         C           Em        
I was a third rate going nowhere 
   C                     D
burning for nothing to do

         G                     
So we branded our hearts and we 
     C
toasted the stars
         D                         
Getting wasted by the light of the 
 G
moon
           C           G          
you were a two bit tramp - I was a
           C     G
 low life lying scum
          C               Em  
We were a bad lay coming undone 
         C               D
burning for someone to use