E Abm
Cigarette smoke dances back in the window
A Dbm B
And I can see the haze on the dome light.
E Abm
I`m conjuring ghosts on a forty-hour ride home
A Dbm B
And they keep asking me what I`m doing with my life,
A B Dbm
While my cousins go to bed with their wives.
A B Gbm
I'm feeling like I've fallen behind.
E
Well the highway won.
Abm
I`m listening to traffic reports,
A Dbm B
One on one, coming quietly undone.
E Abm
I was born to run away from anything good
A
An escape artist`s son
Dbm B
With sun-drenched pavement in my blood.
A B Dbm
The first thing that I do when I walk in
A B Gbm
Is plan a way out for when xxxx gets bad
Dbm B A E Dbm
And I`ve been looking for tears in the screen door.
B A
-tears in the screen door-
Dbm B A E Dbm
I`ve been waiting for another disaster.
B A
-another disaster-
Interlude: E Abm A Dbm B
E Abm
I`m terrified like a kid in the sixties,
A Dbm B
Staring at the sky waiting for the bomb to fall.
E Abm
It`s all a lie, what they say about stability.
A
It scares me sometimes,
Dbm B Gbm
The emptiness I see in my eyes.
Abm A B
All the kid`s names I’ve ever liked are tied to tragedy
Gbm Abm A B
And I don’t want my children growing up to be anything like me.
Dbm B A E Dbm
And I`ve been looking for tears in the screen door.
B A
-tears in the screen door-
Dbm B A E Dbm
I`ve been waiting for another disaster.
B A
-another disaster-
Dbm A B
But I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
Dbm A E
I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
Interlude: A E B
Dbm
I keep a flashlight
A E B
And a small knife in the corner of my bed stand.
Dbm A
I keep a flashlight and the train times,
E
But you wouldn’t understand.
B
How could you understand?
Dbm A
Jesus Christ. I`m twentysix.
E B
All the people I graduated with
Dbm A
All have kids, all have wives,
E B
All have people who care if they come home at night.
Dbm B
Jesus Christ, did I xxxx up?
Dbm B A E Dbm
And I`ve been looking for tears in the screen door.
B A
-tears in the screen door-
Dbm B A E Dbm
I`ve been waiting for another disaster.
B A
-another disaster-
Dbm A B
But I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
Dbm A B
I was kind of hoping you`d stay.
Dbm B E
I was kind of hoping you`d stay.