G                                  Bm
Better keep the heat off 'till the snow falls
Em                               D
I'll fill up on whiskey, rye and reruns
C
Scrambled Perry Como
Bm
Keep the volume down low
   G        D       C
Or wake her fragile sleep
G                            Bm
Oh, how there's longevity in silence
Em                            D
Maybe I'll just sing myself a tune
        C
Or when January comes
     Bm            D
I'll find myself a gun
    G            D               G
And do away with all these quiet sounds

[Chorus]
F   G    Am
Solitary life
         C             G
Come and get me, Jesus Christ
        F            G
I'm the last one you expected
        Am         C
But you never resurrected
          F            G                 C
Could not wait another second for you to rise

[Interlude]
C Ab G G  (x2)

[Verse]
G                      Bm
Quietly the visitors escape
    Em                   D
And I am left alone to recuperate
       C
From a dire expedition
      Bm
And a fiery rendition
G    D      C
Of a humble life
G                                   Bm
Brooding just beneath the varnished pine
    Em                        D
The wicked smell of death and turpentine
          C
Well, I'd offer up a flower
   Bm                    D
My intentions have grown sour
G      D          G
And my tears have dried

[Chorus]
F   G    Am
Solitary life
         C             G
Come and get me, Jesus Christ
        F            G
I'm the last one you expected
        Am         C
But you never resurrected
          F            G                 C
Could not wait another second for you to rise

[Interlude]
C Ab G G  (x2)

[Verse]
  G                          B
I traded in the winter for a soft bed
Em                        D
Pastel Gladiolus, fist of ashes
 C
Above your lovers feast
  Bm
Below the hungry streets
G    D  C
I'll be laughing

C

         G                                   Bm
It's the permanence that makes you tear your shirt
   Em                                  D
Or claw with desperate hands at frozen dirt
        C
But you cannot change the wind
       Bm           D
Or the pallor of my skin
G     D        C
Oh my sweetest earthling
G     D        G
Oh my sweetest love

[Chorus]
(F) (G)   Am
 Solitary life
         C             G
Come and get me, Jesus Christ
        F            G
I'm the last one you expected
        Am         C
But you never resurrected
          F            G                 C
Could not wait another second for you to rise