C F
A# F
C F
A# F
C


[Verse]
                 F    A#
It'll never come easy
           F          C
Babe if it don't come clean
                     F          A#
And if it won't come sweet, babe
             F       C
Sometimes it comes mean
                         F      A#
Its like trying to put a fire out
                 F        C
With matches and gasoline
                 F          A#
We've been going around and around
                 F           C
But how have you really been?


[Verse 2]
                 F           A#
You know we were good friends
              F        C
Its funny how we don't talk
                 F         A#
I flew over your city last night
                            F     C
On a red-eye flight from New York
                       F           A#
I was looking for you down on the ground
                       F       C
Wondering if you still remember
                F           A#
The way that we just walked around
                       F       C
Like the Queens of the Breakers


[Pre-Chorus]
          F         A#
I've been making up time
              F        C
I've been borrowing it too
          F         A#
I've been taking advice that I
                F    C
Threw off in my youth
                    F                     A#
Should have left it right there where you found it
           F          C
Instead of picking it up
               F              A#
You wanted the world, but you drowned it


[Chorus]
       F           C
At the bottom of the blues
      F         A#
Its a reckoning feeling
       F            C
At the bottom of the blues
      F           A#
We're begging and stealing
         F        C
You were ready to confuse
  F         A#
Knowing and believing
             Dm             C
But you were right about the blues
         F               A#         F
You were wrong about the meaning


[Solo]
C F
A# F
C F
A# F
C F
A# F
C F
A# F
C


[Verse 3]
                 F      A#
Talked with your mother
                   F        C
We remembered when you were sick
                       F       A#
Felt like no one could help you
                     F       C
You were falling and falling quick
                   F      A#
And it made a very heavy sound
                    F       C
Like thunder on the mountain
                    F          A#
We were waiting for you to come around
                       F       C
With the Queens of the Breakers


[Pre-Chorus]
          F         A#
I've been making up time
              F        C
I've been borrowing it too
               F         A#
and I’ve been taking off disguises
                    F    C
that I know are not true
                           F              A#
Should have left it right there where you found it
           F          C
Instead of picking it up
               F              A#
You wanted the world, but you drowned it
       F             C
at the bottom of the blues


[Bridge]
        F   A#
Is your arbitrator
F      C
giving up
       F      A#
At the broken alter
F       C
of your love?
         F     A#
Took the sugar out of
     F      C
your coffee cup
      F      A#
Every sulfur morning,
F      C
waking up


[Outro]
C A#

       F             C      F A#
At the bottom of the blues
        F            C      F A#
At the bottom of the blues
       F             C      F A#
At the bottom of the blues
             Dm              C      F A#  F C
But you were right about the blues

F A#
F C
F A#
F C