G D/A G/B G
D/A G/B G D/A
G/B G D/A G/B
etc.

Listen to the song to get a better feel for it!


[Intro]
G D/A G/B G
D/A G/B

        G              D/A
Well, I hoped I'd recognize your face
     G/B                     G
So I got there early found a parking space
        D/A                  G/B
And sat in my car like I was casing the place
               G                     D/A
I thought it's not too late, I could cut you loose
        G/B                G
I could go home now, offer some excuse
         D/A                       G/B
Then the door opened and there was no mistaking you

G         D/A        G/B
  You said, "Come in
G                     D/A        G/B
Take your shoes off and come in"

G                  D/A
Poured the drinks, exchanged prerequisites
G/B                       G
"I am good," you said, "but the world is shit
D/A
So what? We're old men now?"
     G/B                                 G
Then I laughed, "No, you're right. It is
   D/A                           G/B
This time, well, it really is."

G                           D/A
"Yeah, we let it get away," you said
        G/B                 G
Like the falconer from the poem you read
D/A                    G/B
I just shook my head, feels like waiting around
G             D/A    G/B
For the Second Coming
G              D/A        G/B
Except nobody's   coming

G                           D/A
And the talk turned over to life before
G/B                          G
To the kindness of strangers and their kitchen floors
D/A                          G/B
How the pain grows sweet and the blood dries burnt orange
G                       D/A
The green rooms and the tortilla chips
G/B                      G
All the couches caked in ejaculate
      D/A
How I cringed when you said
G/B                             G
"At least someone is getting it"
D/A     G/B
  Coming
       G        D/A    G/B
At the same time  coming

G D/A G/B

G                       D/A
And the drinks grew low and your eyes grew dim
G/B                         G
Like the curtain was pulled so no light gets in
D/A                         G/B
You said, "I'm fine alone, but it's good to see you, man
G                      D/A
I feel cut off from all I have been
G/B                      G
But am I the stump or am I the limb?"
D/A                   G/B
I was eyeing the door and you noticed it
G                    D/A         G/B
I said, "I have to be   running"
G                 D/A        G/B
Late for dinner or something
G                            D/A           G/B
And you thanked me for coming

G D/A G/B
G D/A G/B
G D/A G/B

G                      D/A
And the next I saw you was a hospital bed
G/B                   G
With a gunshot wound, nurses shaved your head
D/A                  G/B
You were lucky maybe, maybe the opposite
G                     D/A
And I was awkward and you were a wreck
G/B                          G
You were muttering something underneath your breath
D/A                      G/B
And then I lost my cool, called you an idiot
G                         D
And you said I was such a hypocrite
G/B                         G
Someone had to die before I gave a shit
D/A
I said, "You’re right, but still
G/B
If I'm in it, you’re in it"
G                    D/A     G/B
And the tears started coming
G                     D/A    G/B
And they wouldn’t stop coming
G                D/A         G/B
Cleansing all our resentments
G                   D/A     G/B
As if we could go on living
G                   D/A     G/B
As if we could go on

G                 D
Don't ever wonder why
G                  D
Everybody wants to die from time to time
G                  D
It's better not to ask
                Em                    Bm
Don't shake the nest, don't speak the lie

            G                    D
Because it's always been agreed
             G            D
Through some ancient alchemy
         G              D                     Em
That the public secret, it secretes that life is worth living
Bm
And it has to be