[Intro: ]E-Asus2-Bsus4 

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Well, I'm lost 
    Asus2 
I'm afraid 
Bsus4 
Rope tying down a leaky boat 
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To the roof of a car on a road in the dark and it's snowing 
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If I'm more then it means less 

Last call for happiness 
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I'm your dress near the back of your knees and your slip is showing 
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I'm a float in a summer parade 
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Up the street in the town that you were born in 
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With a girl at the top wearing tulle 
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And a Miss Somewhere sash, waving like the queen 

Chorus: 
C#m                               Asus2 
   Well beauty's just another word 
                             F#m 
I'm never certain how to spell 
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Go tell the nurse to turn the T.V .  back on 
C#m                   Asus2 
  Throw away my misery 
                            Bsus4 
It never meant that much to me 
                          // 
It never sent a get-well card. 


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And I'm broke, like a bad   joke 

Somebody's uncle told  
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At a wedding reception in nineteen seventy-two 
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Where a little boy under a table with cake in his hair 
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Stared at the grown-up feet as they danced and swayed 

(Let all chords ring until Chorus) 

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And his father laughed and talked on the long ride home 
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And his mother laughed and talked on the long ride home 
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And he thought about how everyone dies someday 
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And when tomorrow gets here, where will yesterday be 
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And fell asleep in his brand new winter coat 

Chorus: 
C#m                     Asus2                          F#m 
  Buy me a shiny new machine that runs on lies and gasoline 
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  And all those batteries we stole from smoke alarms 
C#m                          Asus2 
  And disassembles my despair 
                     Bsus2 
It never took me anywhere 
                           // 
It never once bought me a drink