[Primeira Parte]
E A E
Up on Scorpion Hill watching life
A B
Passing me by in the pale moonlight
E
And I sat there forever
A C#m
Three sheets to the wind
B
It's not helping my case
The state that I'm in
A E
But it's not how they told you
A E
My intentions were good
A
I was just bursting apart
E
Like the end of the ark
C#m F#m A
Holding on to whatever I could
( E A E A )
( C#m B A )
[Segunda Parte]
E
A square of light moves
B A
Its way through the empty room
E F#m
Across the stained yellow carpet
E B A
Like a ghost of myself in the afternoon
C
Haunting my basement apartment
B C
I looked in to the mirror
C#m A
Hanging behind my door
B
The glass was cracked
C
And the man staring back
C#m A
He don't look like me anymore
B
And if the world is gonna burn
C
Everyone should get
A turn to light it up
( E B C#m A )
( E B C#m )
( A E B )
[Refrão]
C#m A E B C#m A E B
Down and out, I've been on the rocks
C#m A E A F#m
I've been having some pretty dark thoughts
B Cm
Yeah, I like them a lot
( E A E A )
( C#m B A )
[Segunda Parte]
E B
Time and time again, well I've tried
A
And failed to get my act together
E G#m
And I'll admit lately things
A
Really went off the rails
C
I know that you deserve better
B C
But in the morning, as I was boarding
C#m A
The commuter train to work
B
The boss was calling, he said
C
"There's been cutbacks and
C#m A
I'm sorry you're the first"
B
And If I can't support the two of us
Cm
How can I support a third?
( E B )
[Refrão]
C#m A E B C#m A E B
Down and out, I've been on the rocks
C#m A E A F#m
I've been having some pretty dark thoughts
[Ponte]
B
And I'm on the brink
E
Falling deep into debt
A
Falling deep into drink
F#m
I can drown those regrets
B
I don't have to think
A E
Now I'm working the night shift
A E
Asleep at the wheel
A E
I was bursting apart like a flame from a spark
C#m F#m
Thinkin' "Jesus, this can't be for real"
[Terceira Parte]
A E
My sweat-soaked mattress
A E
Corner of the room
A E
Cigarettes and matches
C#m F#m
In the fading afternoon
A
And a picture of my kid
Yeah, he's smiling
E
It's the first day of school
[Solo] E B C#m A
E B C#m A
E B C#m A
E B C#m A
[Refrão Final]
F#m B
She said, "I found the gun
E
It was buried beneath
A
Piles of clothes in the room
F#m
Where your son sleeps
B
And I can't pretend
E
To know how this will end"
