G D/A G/B G
D/A G/B G D/A
G/B G D/A G/B
etc.
Listen to the song to get a better feel for it!
[Intro]
G D/A G/B G
D/A G/B
G D/A
Well, I hoped I'd recognize your face
G/B G
So I got there early found a parking space
D/A G/B
And sat in my car like I was casing the place
G D/A
I thought it's not too late, I could cut you loose
G/B G
I could go home now, offer some excuse
D/A G/B
Then the door opened and there was no mistaking you
G D/A G/B
You said, "Come in
G D/A G/B
Take your shoes off and come in"
G D/A
Poured the drinks, exchanged prerequisites
G/B G
"I am good," you said, "but the world is shit
D/A
So what? We're old men now?"
G/B G
Then I laughed, "No, you're right. It is
D/A G/B
This time, well, it really is."
G D/A
"Yeah, we let it get away," you said
G/B G
Like the falconer from the poem you read
D/A G/B
I just shook my head, feels like waiting around
G D/A G/B
For the Second Coming
G D/A G/B
Except nobody's coming
G D/A
And the talk turned over to life before
G/B G
To the kindness of strangers and their kitchen floors
D/A G/B
How the pain grows sweet and the blood dries burnt orange
G D/A
The green rooms and the tortilla chips
G/B G
All the couches caked in ejaculate
D/A
How I cringed when you said
G/B G
"At least someone is getting it"
D/A G/B
Coming
G D/A G/B
At the same time coming
G D/A G/B
G D/A
And the drinks grew low and your eyes grew dim
G/B G
Like the curtain was pulled so no light gets in
D/A G/B
You said, "I'm fine alone, but it's good to see you, man
G D/A
I feel cut off from all I have been
G/B G
But am I the stump or am I the limb?"
D/A G/B
I was eyeing the door and you noticed it
G D/A G/B
I said, "I have to be running"
G D/A G/B
Late for dinner or something
G D/A G/B
And you thanked me for coming
G D/A G/B
G D/A G/B
G D/A G/B
G D/A
And the next I saw you was a hospital bed
G/B G
With a gunshot wound, nurses shaved your head
D/A G/B
You were lucky maybe, maybe the opposite
G D/A
And I was awkward and you were a wreck
G/B G
You were muttering something underneath your breath
D/A G/B
And then I lost my cool, called you an idiot
G D
And you said I was such a hypocrite
G/B G
Someone had to die before I gave a shit
D/A
I said, "You’re right, but still
G/B
If I'm in it, you’re in it"
G D/A G/B
And the tears started coming
G D/A G/B
And they wouldn’t stop coming
G D/A G/B
Cleansing all our resentments
G D/A G/B
As if we could go on living
G D/A G/B
As if we could go on
G D
Don't ever wonder why
G D
Everybody wants to die from time to time
G D
It's better not to ask
Em Bm
Don't shake the nest, don't speak the lie
G D
Because it's always been agreed
G D
Through some ancient alchemy
G D Em
That the public secret, it secretes that life is worth living
Bm
And it has to be
