B    Am   G
B    Am   G
F         F

[Verse 1]
B                              F#
I guess by now you're feeling sorry for me
B                         F#
Well that's the way this story's meant to be
B                         F#
Take a look around, you won't see much that's right
B                                              F#
Your kid might be in the Boy Scouts, but he's kicking queers at night

[Chorus]
D                  G
Tell me a single thing life teaches you
D                  G
Tell me a single death that reaches you
D                      G
You deny you've got a soul to preach to
D                 G
Try and save him, I beseech you


[Verse 2]
B                             G
I've done all I can, he never cut his hair
  B                              G
I washed my hands of the whole affair
D                            Bb
Twenty years in jail seems a little harsh
      D                      Bb      F     F
But I bow to the law and the chosen path


[Bridge]
Abmaj7             Gsus4/C G/D
   Is it me, for a moment
Cm    Cm/Bb     Abmaj7
  The stars are falling
Eb          Cm7 Abmaj9
    The heat is rising,
Eb         Cm7 Abmaj9
    The past is calling

[Bridge]
Abmaj7             Gsus4/C G/D
   Is it me, for a moment
Cm    Cm/Bb     Abmaj7
  The stars are falling
Eb          Cm7 Abmaj9
   The heat is rising,
Eb         Cm7 Abmaj9
   The past is calling


[Interlude]
E
Ab
B


[Verse]
B                              F#
I guess by now you're feeling sorry for him
B                            F#
Well that's OK, 'cause they put him in the bin
B                            F#
Take a look around, take a walk out in the park
        B                              F#
You can still see all the old ladies, scared stiff of the dark


[Chorus]
D                  G
Tell me a single thing life teaches you
D                  G
Tell me a single death that reaches you
D                      G
You deny you've got a soul to preach to
D                 G
Try and save him, I beseech you


[Verse 2 with the chorus lyrics going on at the same time]
B                             G
I've done all I can, he never cut his hair
  B                              G
I washed my hands of the whole affair
D                            Bb
Twenty years in jail seems a little harsh
      D                      Bb      F     F
But I bow to the law and the chosen path
F               F
The chosen path
B
I've done all I can
                 F
I've done all I can



[Verse 2 with the chorus lyrics going on at the same time]
B                             G
I've done all I can, he never cut his hair
  B                              G
I washed my hands of the whole affair
D                            Bb
Twenty years in jail seems a little harsh
      D                      Bb      F     F
But I bow to the law and the chosen path

F    F


[Outro]
Fmaj7                  Cmaj7         D
    Some nights I still sleep on the beach
Fmaj7             Cmaj7         D
    Remember when stars were in reach...