C        G                 F
  Just a minute before you leave
C                G                  F
 Just a minute before you touch the door
C                        G         F
  What is it that you're trying to achieve?
         C                 G                  F
  Do you think we can just talk about it some more?
    Dm
The streets are filled with vipers
       Dm
Who've lost all ray of hope
   G
It ain't even safe no more
G
In the palace of the Pope

[Chorus]
C           G          F
Don't fall apart on me tonight
C            G                  F
I just don't think that I could handle it
C           G          F
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Dm                 Em
Yesterday's just a memory
   F                                    G
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
G
And I need you, oh yeah

[Verse 2]
C            G              F
   Come over here from over there
           C     G               F
  Sit down here. You can have my chair
C                G         F
  I can't see us goin' anywhere
    C                    G                       F
The only place open is a thousand miles away and I can't take you there
  Dm
I wish I'd have been a doctor
Dm
Maybe I'd have saved some lives been lost
G
Maybe I'd have done some good in the world
G
'Stead of burning every bridge I crossed

[Chorus]
C           G          F
Don't fall apart on me tonight
C            G                  F
I just don't think that I could handle it
C           G          F
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Dm                 Em
Yesterday's just a memory
   F                                    G
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
G
And I need you, oh yeah

[Verse 3]
C             G             F
  I ain't too good at conversation
        C              G             F
So, you might not know exactly how I feel
        C           G                F
But if I could, I'd bring you to the mountaintop
    C           G                  F
And build you a house of stainless steel
    Dm
But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting
       Dm
That's hanging in the Louvre
   G
My throat start to tickle and my nose itches
      G
But I know that I can't move

[Chorus]
C           G          F
Don't fall apart on me tonight
C            G                  F
I just don't think that I could handle it
C           G          F
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Dm                       Em
Yesterday's gone but the past lives on
   F                     G
Tomorrow's just one step beyond
G
And I need you, oh yeah

[Bridge]
Bb                           F
Who are these people walking toward you?
                                    C
Do you know them or will there be a fight?
           Bb                  F
With their humorless smiles so easy to see through
         F                                 C
Can they tell you what's wrong from what's right?
   F                 C
Do you remember Napolean Street
F                          C
Where you blew Jackie P.'s mind?
            F                     C
You were so fine, Clark Gable would've fell at your feet
    Bb       F           G
And laid his life on the line

[Instrumental]
C G F x2

[Verse 4]
C              G                       F
  Let's try to get beneath the surface waste
        C                      G                     F
No more booby traps and bombs, No more decadence and charm
C          G                F
 No more affection that's misplaced,
C                          G             F
 No more mudcake creatures lying in your arms
Dm
 What about that billionaire
         Dm
With the drumsticks in his pants?
             G
He looked so baffled, so bewildered
        G
When he played and we didn't dance

[Chorus]
C           G          F
Don't fall apart on me tonight
C            G                  F
I just don't think that I could handle it
C           G          F
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Dm                 Em
Yesterday's just a memory
   F                                    G
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
G
And I need you, oh yeah

C           G          F
Don't fall apart on me tonight
C           G          F
Don't fall apart on me tonight
C           G          F
Don't fall apart on me tonight
C           G          F
Don't fall apart on me tonight
C           G          F
Don't fall apart on me tonight