Something to Believe In (MTV Unplugged Version)
Poison
Open E Tuning (EBEG#BE)
CHORDS:
E F#m G#m A B (A) (Asus2)
-0- -0- -0- -0- -0- -x- -x-
-0- -0- -0- -0- -0- -x- -x-
-0- -1- -3- -5- -7- -x- -x-
-0- -2- -4- -5- -7- -5- -5-
-0- -2- -4- -5- -7- -5- -7-
-0- -0- -0- -0- -0- -5- -5-
INTRO:
E F#m E F#m G#m F#m G#m A
E
I came home from school on Tuesday
F#m
To find my mother gone
E
Why she left I’ll never know
F#m
It seemed like they got along
G#m F#m
But one of these days I’d like to know
G#m A
Just where it all went wrong
E
A woman torn to tears asks
F#m
Who the real criminals are
E
Or when they told ‘er her husband died
F#m
Fighting in another country’s drug wars
E
She said it isn’t the kids on the streets without a dream
F#m
Shooting up the dealer’s smack
E
It’s them a red-tape politicians
F#m
Digging on the drug lords kick-backs
G#m F#m
Isn’t it funny what power and money
G#m A
Can do to the soul of a man?
E
And give me something to believe in
F#m
If there’s a lord above
E
I give me something to believe in
F#m
If there’s a lord above
E
He got a second job at night now
F#m
Just to help pay the bills
E
And there he worked for the rest of his life
F#m
Cuz his wife had taken him in
E
Now he lives on a bottle of courage
F#m
He buys at the liquor store
E
He did his family real good
F#m
Till he couldn’t do it anymore
G#m F#m
Whatever he found, why he broke down
G#m A
No one’s really sure
E
Just needed something to believe in
F#m
If there’s a lord above
E
He needed something to believe in
F#m
Oh lord arise
G#m F#m
The tracks of society’s racial on the old man’s face
G#m A
His eyes blood red lay to waste
SOLO CHORDS (see bottom for timing of A to Asus2 chords):
B A B A E (A) (Asus2) (A) (Asus2)
E (A) (Asus2) (A) (Asus2) G#m F#m G#m A
E
Well the mirror tells a different story
F#m
Than the one that’s playin’ in my mind
E
Every time I swear I’m lookin’ younger
F#m
The more lines that I find
E
I guess I learned to trade youth for wisdom
F#m
And lust in for romance
E
It’s all written in the stages and phases
F#m
Of life’s little dance
G#m F#m
And when I wanna bitch about growin’ old
G#m A
I think of how many never had a chance
E
It gives me something to believe in
F#m E F#m E F#m
Oh lord arise (x4)
G#m F#m
Sometimes I wish I didn’t know now
G#m A E F#m G#m A
Things I didn’t know then
E
And give me something to believe in
Solo timing:
A Asus2 A Asus2
|--x----x--x--x--x------x----x--x----|
|--x----x--x--x--x------x----x--x----|
|--x----x--x--x--x------x----x--x----|
|--5----5--5--5--5------5----5--5----|
|--5----5--5--7--5------5----7--5----|
|--5----5--5--5--5------5----5--5----|