INTRO:
Abm C#m Abm
Abm C#m F#
B Bbm6
Abm C#m F#
Abm C#m
As I walk through the streets of my new city
F# B
my back feeling much better I suppose
Bbm6 Abm C#m
I've reclaimed the use of my imagination
F# B
for better or for worse I've yet to know
Bbm6 Abm C#m
but I always knew you'd be the one to understand me
F# B Bbm6
I guess that's why it took so long to get things right
Abm
Suddenly I'm lost
C#m
On my street
On my block
F#
Oh why Oh why
B E
Oh why haven't you been there for me
F# B Bbm6
Can't you see I'm losing my mind this time
Abm C#m
This time it's for real I can see
F# Abm Bbm C#m
All the trees are turning red
F# Abm Bbm C#m F#
The beggars near bodegas grin at me
F# Abm Bbm C#m
I think they want something
F# Abm Bbm C#m F#
I close my eyes I tell myself to breathe
B
and be calm
Be calm
E B
I know you feel like you are breaking down
Abm C#m E
Well I know that it gets so hard sometimes
F#
Be calm
Abm C#m
I'm scared that everyone is out to get me
F# B Bbm6
These days before you speak to me you pause
Abm C#m
I always see you looking out your window
F# B Bbm6
After all you lost your band you left your mom
Abm C#m
Now every single crack every pain that I pass
F# B Bbm6
says I should either leave or pick it up
Abm
But with every single buck I've made
C#m
I'm saddled with bad luck that came
F#
the moment I was baptized
F#
or when I found out one day I'm gonna die
Abm Bbm C# F# Abm C#m
if only I could find my people or my place in life
F# Abm Bb C#m
then when they come to 'carolin'
F# Abm Bbm C#m
so loud so bright the theremin
F# Abm Bbm
will lead us to a chorus
C#m F# Abm Bbm C#m F#
where we'll all rejoice and sing a song that goes
B
Oh be calm
Be calm
E B
I know you feel like you are breaking down
Abm C#m E
I know that it gets so hard sometimes
F#
Be calm
B D#m
Take it from me I've been there a thousand times
Abm
You hate your pulse because it thinks you're still alive
Abm A#m B C#m
and e-very--thing's wrong
E C#m
It just gets so hard sometimes
F#
Be calm
Abm F# D#m C#m
I don't remember much that night
B F# B F# F# Ab B
Just walking thinking fondly of you
Abm F# D#m C#m B
Thinking how the worst is yet to come
F# B F# B
From that street corner came a song
B C#m D#m E
And I can't remember the man
F# B Bbm6
The panhandler or his melody
Abm F# D#m C#m F#
The words exchanged had far exceeded any change I'd given thee
B
Oh be calm
Be calm
E B
I know you feel like you are breaking down
Abm C#m E
I know that it gets so hard sometimes
F#
Be calm
B D#m
Take it from me I've been there a thousand times
Abm
You hate your pulse because it thinks you're still alive
Abm A#m B C#m
and e-very--thing's wrong
E C#m
It just gets so hard sometimes
F#
Be calm
Abm
Be calm
D G