Skeleton Key

album version - STRAIGHT SONGS OF SORROW
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[VERSE 1]
B        G
   Ugly, I'm so very ugly
    D                E                 B
I'm ugly, inside and out, there's no denyin'
B        G
Love me, why would you ever love me?
   D                  E               B
No one has ever loved me yet, pretty baby
B             G
Skeleton key, it won't open up
D             E               B
It won't open any lock I have on me
B       G
Rusted, bent and rusted
     D        E        B
Your precious skeleton key


[VERSE 2]
B                       G
I spent my life, tryin' every way to die
   D             E               B
Is it my fate to be the last one standin'?
          B                          G
Don't you know it's a crime? All the shadowy peaks I climb
    D             E          B
And I have yet to ever be remanded
     D             E          B
Yes, I have yet to ever be remanded
B     G
Holy, holy
D               E           B
All of your religions are a lie
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B        G
Hold me, don't ya try to hold me
  D              E                     B
I clearly see my own way to the other side
     D                  E                 B
Yes, I will make my own way to the other side


[VERSE 3]
B       G
Cryin', quit your cryin'
D             E            B
Sun'll likely rise again tomorrow
       B               G
As you follow me down, through the underground
D              E               B
I would hook a leash upon your collar
        B                    G
Nothin' good is sustained, I gladly accept the blame
    D                  E            B
But all my words won't add up to a dollar
     D                  E            B
Yes, all my words won't add up to a dollar


[VERSE 4]
B        G
Love me, don't say that you love me
  D             E                    B
Nobody has ever loved me yet, pretty baby
B       G
Cryin', quit your cryin'
       D            E                   B
I have ten thousand tears that you can borrow
         B              G
Come on, follow me down through the underground
    D              E              B
And I will sing to you a song of sorrow
       D             E                        B
I will sing to you a sweet, straight song of sorrow
       D              E                           B
I will sing you all a sweet, straight song of sorrow
       D              E                        B
I will sing you all a sweet, straight song of sorrow
D             E                   B
Skeleton key,   where are ya? Hey-yeah


[VERSE 5]
B             G
Skeleton key, bent and rusted
D           E                   B
All of your dreams are locked away
    B                   G
The hands have stopped, on the timekeeper's clock
D               E                     B
You have got to learn to breathe underwater
      D                        E               B
Yeah, you have got to breathe, breathe underwater
B             G
Skeleton key, bent and rusted
   D             E                  B
As broken as the heart the dirt has eaten
B        G
Love me, don't pretend to love me
     D              E              B
I've lost enough to know when I am beaten
     D              E                      B
I've lost enough to know when I've been beaten
     D              E                      B
I've lost enough to know when I've been beaten
            D              E                      B
Yes, I have lost enough to know when I've been beaten