A#                 C
Wait for me by the banshee tree
A#                         C
Let me be your wailing companion
A#                    C
Pass 'em on by, don't look 'em in the eye
A#               C
Suicide Alley is callin'

    F
You thought you were dreaming
          C
You could wake up dead
           G
And you'll never know what's real
F                          C
All this damage is runnin' loose in your head
       G
And it really matters to me

[Chorus]
F5      C
Oh, no, baby don't go
A#           F       C
Walkin' down Suicide Alley

[Verse]
A#                   C
Downtown baby it's a million to one
    A#                       C
You might as well name your poison
    A#                   C
And stand in line by the exit sign
A#               C
Suicide Alley is waiting

         F                     C
You're a loose cannonball on a sinking ship
         G
From the belly of the beast, shot from the hip
        F                      C
But you don't have to be going down the dark hall
           G
You're not tied to the chair, you're not nailed to the wall

[Chorus]
F5      C
Oh, no, baby don't go
A#           F       C
Walkin' down Suicide Alley

[Solo]
C A# F C
C A# G C

[Verse]
        A#                         C
Sitting naked by the window in the middle of the night
A#                         C
I can see you wearing your halo
   A#                             C
If only in the daybreak of the dirty street light
       A#                  C
I know baby wasn't born to follow

         F                   C
You know I wasn't born I was spat out at a wall
    G
And nobody even knew my name
    F                   C
The sun hatched me out, cradle and all
       G
On the corner of First and Insane

        F                             C
For the souls of the departed and the renegades of love
G
You and me we gotta be all we dreamed of
       F                             C
In the ruins of mischief through the ravages of time
G
You got a place in this world of mine

[Chorus]
F5      C
Oh, no, baby don't go
A#           F       C
Walkin' down Suicide Alley