Tom: G
Em G
Maybe just a good night's sleep
Em G
Would've changed your troubled mind
Em Am7
From that rather permanent decision
C D / Dsus2
So tragic - so unkind
Em G
Now pain is what you've given
Em G
And sleep is what you'll get
Em Am7
So far away from that sweet baby child
C (don't play D here)
Who hardly knew you yet...
Interlude: just strum the same pattern as for the verses
Em / G
Em / G
Em G
Now he'll grow up to be a fighter
Em G
Full of anger, full of shame
Em Am7
Just like all the other haunted children
C D / Dsus2
Who wonder why they came -
Em G
And he'll be in and out of trouble
Em G
Until he stands or till he falls
Em Am7
But there will always be a shadow there
C Em G Em G
No matter how it goes...Damn it, Rose.
Bridge
Dm G
Is this another cryptic message,
Dm G
Or some kind of cosmic quiz?
Dm Bb
If there's a lesson to be learnt from this,
Eb (Not sure, but I think it's directly back to Em)
I don't know what it is -
Interlude (same as the above)
Em / G
Em / G
Em G
You could've given us the finger
Em G
Much more constructively than that
Em Am7
Now I sit here with the MTV
C D / Dsus2
And your bloated Burmese cat
Em G
We're being treated to the wisdom
Em G
Of some puffed-up little fart
Em Am7
Doing exactly what I used to:
C
Pretensions to anarchy and art -
Em G
He speaks the language of a warrior
Em G
He mounts his misinformed attack
Em Am7
He wears the clothes of a dissenter
C
But there's a logo on his back...
Em G
And it's a hollow rebellion,
Em G
Like rebellions mostly are
Em Am7
It's just another raging tempest
C
In a jar...
Em G
And the seasons keep on changing,
Em G
And the wind blows hot and cold -
Em Am7
Wish that you were here with us to watch this tide
C
As it ebbs and flows....
C Em G Em G
Damn it, Rose.
