Verse:
Gm Cm
In the middle of a gun fight...
F
In the center of a restaurant...
D Gm
They say, "Come with your arms raised high!"
Cm
Well, they're never gonna get me,
F
Like a bullet through a flock of doves...
D Gm Cm
To wage this war against your faith in me,
F D Gm
Your life...will never be the same.
Cm F D
On your mother's eyes, say a prayer...say a prayer!
Chorus:
Gm
Now, but I can't
Cm
And I don't know
F
How we're just two men as God had made us,
D
Well, I can't...well, I can!
Gm
Too much, too late, or just not enough of this
Cm
Pain in my heart for your dying wish,
F D
I'll kiss your lips again.
Verse:
Gm
They all cheat at cards and the checkers are lost,
Cm F
My cellmate's a killer, they make me do push-ups -in drag-
D
But nobody cares if you're losing yourself...am I losing myself?!
Gm
Well, I miss my mom,
Will they give me the chair,
Cm F
Or lethal injection, or swing from a rope if you dare;
D
Ah, nobody knows...all the trouble I've seen!
Chorus:
Gm
Now, but I can't
Cm
And I don't know
F
How we're just two men as God had made us,
D
Well, I can't...well, I can!
Gm
Too much, too late, or just not enough of this
Cm
Pain in my heart for your dying wish,
F D
I'll kiss your lips again.
Bridge:
Gm Cm
To your room...
F
What they ask of you
D Gm Cm
Will make you want to say, "So long..."
F
Well, I don't remember,
D Gm
Why remember...YOU?!
Gm Cm
Do you have the keys to the hotel?!
F D
'Cause I'm gonna string this motherxxxxxx on fire! -Fire!-
Outro:
Gm Cm
Life is but a dream for the dead,
F
And well I, I won't go down by myself,
D
But I'll go down with my friends.
Gm Cm
Now now now now... -I can't explain-
F
Now now now... -I can't complain-
D
Now now, yeah!
Outro: Gm