E
 You've read the books, 
Emaj7
 You've watched the shows, 
A                   B
What's the best way no one knows, yeah, 
 E             Emaj7
(Medicated?), hypnotized. 
A                      B
  Anything to take it from your mind. 
       A     B
But it won?t go, 
      E                            C#m
You're doing all these things out of desperation, 
A         B
Oh, whoa, 
      E
You're going through six degrees of separation. 

E                      Emaj7
You hear the drinking, take a toll 
A                   B
Watch the past go up in smoke. 
E             Emaj7
Fake a smile, yeah, lie and say 
A                      B
You're better now than ever, and your life's okay 
       A     B
When it's not, whoa 
      E                            C#m
You're doing all these things out of desperation, 
A         B
Oh, whoa, 
      E
You're going through six degrees of separation. 

C#m          A                                E
First, you think the worst is a broken heart 
              B                      C#m
What's gonna kill you is the second part 
              A              E                     B
And the third, is when your world splits down the middle 
        C#m  A                                 E
And fourth, you're gonna think that you fixed yourself 
            B
Fifth, you see them out with someone else 
C#m          A                            E
And the sixth, is when you admit that you may have fucked up a little 
C#m               A                            E            B
((My mother ain't no help?), it's every man for himself) (2x) 

E                      Emaj7
You tell your friends, yeah, strangers too, 
A                   B
Anyone flowing all around you, yeah 
E             Emaj7
Tarot cards, Gems and stones, 
A                      B
Believing all that shit is gonna heal your soul. 
       A     B
We'll it's not, no 
      E                            C#m
Your only doing things out of desperation, 
A         B
Oh, no 
      E
Your goin' through six degrees of separation. 

C#m          A                                E
First, you think the worst is a broken heart 
              B                      C#m
What's gonna kill you is the second part 
              A              E                     B
And the third, is when your world splits down the middle 
        C#m  A                                 E
And fourth, you're gonna think that you fixed yourself 
            B
Fifth, you see them out with someone else 
C#m          A                            E
And the sixth, is when you admit that you may have fucked up a little 

A
No there's no starting over, 
B
Without finding closure, 
C#m
You take them back, no hesitation, 
A
That's when you know you've reached the sixth degree of separation 
(Repeat) 

C#m          A                                E
First, you think the worst is a broken heart 
              B                      C#m
What's gonna kill you is the second part 
              A              E                     B
And the third, is when your world splits down the middle 
        C#m  A                                 E
And fourth, you're gonna think that you fixed yourself 
            B
Fifth, you see them out with someone else 
C#m          A                            E
And the sixth, is when you admit that you may have fucked up a little 

C#m               A                            E            B
((My mother ain't no help?), it's every man for himself) (2x)