Passing Through a Screen Door

[Primera Parte]

 E                     G#m
Cigarette smoke dances back in the 
window
       A          C#m         B
And I can see the haze on the dome 
light
    E                     G#m
I`m conjuring ghosts on a forty-hour
 ride home
     A                           
And they keep asking me what I`m 
C#m           B
doing with my life
          A            B      
While my cousins go to bed with 
        C#m
their wives
     A                 B        F#m
I'm feeling like I've fallen behind

[Segunda Parte]

          E
Well the highway won
     G#m
I`m listening to traffic reports
A                   C#m       B
One on one, coming quietly undone
       E          G#m
I was born to run away from anything
 good
     A
An escape artist`s son
                  C#m           
With sun-drenched pavement in my 
  B
blood
     A                 B       
The first thing that I do when I 
      C#m
walk in
     A         B           F#m
Is plan a way out for when shit gets
 bad

[Estribillo]

    C#m         B      A   E    
And I`ve been looking for tears 
         C#m
in the screen door
  B             A
(tears in the screen door)
C#m         B      A    E
I`ve been waiting for another 
       C#m
disaster
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  B         A
(another disaster)

( E  G#m  A  C#m  B )

[Segunda Parte]

     E               G#m
I`m terrified like a kid in the 
sixties
 A                  C#m           
Staring at the sky waiting for the
  B
 bomb to fall
      E                   G#m
It`s all a lie, what they say about 
stability
    A
It scares me sometimes
    C#m          B        F#m
The emptiness I see in my eyes

[Puente]

        G#m                   A   
All the kid`s names I’ve ever 
              B
liked are tied to tragedy
   F#m              G#m           
And I don’t want my children 
        A                B
growing up to be anything like me

[Estribillo]

    C#m         B      A   E    
And I`ve been looking for tears 
        C#m
in the screen door
  B             A
(tears in the screen door)
C#m         B      A    E
I`ve been waiting for another 
       C#m
disaster
  B         A
(another disaster)
    C#m            A            B
But I was kind of hoping you`d stay
  C#m          A             E
I was kind of hoping you`d stay

( A  E  B )

[Tercera Parte]

          C#m
I keep a flashlight
       A                  E       
And a small knife in the corner of
    B
 my bed stand
          C#m                A
I keep a flashlight and the train 
times
                  E
But you wouldn’t understand
               B
How could you understand?

       E        A
Jesus Christ. I`m twentysix
         C#m                  A
All the people I graduated with
         E             A
All have kids, all have wives
          C#m                   
All have people who care if they 
        A
come home at night
       C#m               B
Jesus Christ, did I fuck up?

[Estribillo]

    C#m         B      A   E    
And I`ve been looking for tears 
         C#m
in the screen door
  B             A
(tears in the screen door)
C#m         B      A    E
I`ve been waiting for another 
       C#m
disaster
  B         A
(another disaster)
    C#m            A            B
But I was kind of hoping you`d stay
  C#m          A            B
I was kind of hoping you`d stay
  C#m          B            E
I was kind of hoping you`d stay