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E                      B
By the second verse, dear friends
C#m                     A
My head will burst, my life will end
B
So, I'd like to start this one off by saying
 E
"Live and love"
E                   B
I was young and at home in bed
       C#m                        A
And I was hanging on the words some poem said
      B
And thirty-one
       E
I was impressionable
      F#m
I was upsettable

            C#m               A                   B
I tried to make my breathing stop, my heart beat slow
            C#m                  A             B
So, when my mom and John came in, I would be cold

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   E                        B         C#m       A
From a bridge on Washington Avenue, the year of 1972
        B                           E
Broke my bones and skull and it was memorable
        E                       B
It was half a second and I was halfway down
       C#m                     A              B
Do you think I wanted to turn back around and teach a class
          E                        F#
Where you kiss the ass that I've exposed to you


           C#m          A       B
And at the funeral, the University
             C#m        A                        B
Cried at three poems they'd present in place of a broken me

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      E             B
I was breaking in a case of suds
 C#m                A                          B                      E
At the brass rail, a fall-down drunk with his tongue torn out and his balls removed
        E               B                     C#m         A
And I knew that my last lines were gone while stupidly I lingered on,
      B
other wise men
               E
know when it's time to go
        F#m
And so I should, too

        C#m           A                B
And so I fly into the brightest winter sun
        C#m              A                     B
Of this frozen town, I'm stripped down to move on
                F#m             A       B
My friends, I'm gone

      E
Well, I hear my father fall
    E
And I hear my mother call
    E                                    B
And I hear the others all whisper, "Come home"

             E
I'm sorry to go
               A
I loved you all so
    E                     B                A
But this is the worst trip I've ever been on

   E
So, hoist up the John B. sail
(Hoist up the John B. sail)
  E
See how the main sail sets
(See how the main sail sets)
 E                                             B
I've folded my heart in my head and I wanna go home
                   E
With a book in my hand
                  A
In the way I had planned
      E                      B              E
Well, this is the worst trip I've ever been on
E
Hoist up the John B. sail
(Hoist up the John B. sail)
E
See how the main sail sets
(See how the main sail sets)
E                                              B
I've folded my heart in my head and I wanna go home
                    E
With a book in each hand
(With a book in each hand)
                 A
In the way I had planned
(In the way I had planned)
  E                  B
I feel so broke up
           E
I wanna go home