Tom: F
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
