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Version 1 Version 2Album|Bringing Down the Horse Year|1996 Tuning|Standard [Chords] G D F# Bm A Em e|-3---2---2----2----0----0------| b|-3---3---2----3----2----0------| G|-0---2---3----4----2----0------| D|-0---0---4----4----2----2------| A|-x-------4----2----0----2------| E|-3-------2--------------0------| (Clean with tremolo) [Intro] e|-------------------------------|----------------------------------------| b|-------------------------------|----------------------------------------| G|-----0-2-----0-2~--------------|-7/9-7----------7-------7/9--9/11-------| D|-0-------0---------5p4---------|-------9p7--5~---------------------12~--| A|---0-------0-----------5-0-2~--|------------------9-7p5-----------------| E|-------------------------------|----------------------------------------| (Clean tone) [Verse 1] G D So long ago, I don't remember when F# Bm A That's when they say I lost my only friend G D Well since she died easy of a broken heart disease F# Bm A As I listened through the cemetery trees [Fill 1] G D F# Bm A G D I seen the sun comin' up at the funeral at dawn F# Bm A The long broken arm of human law G D Now it always seemed such a waste She always had a pretty face F# Bm A So I wondered why she hung around this place [Fill 2] | G | % | % | % | x2 | F# | % | % | % | x2 (Crunch distortion) [Chorus] G D Em Hey, come on try a little nothing is forever A There's got to be something better than in the middle G D Em But me and Cinderella we put all together A We can drive it home with one headlight [Fill 3] G D F# Bm A [Verse 2] G D She said it's cold it feels like independence day F# Bm A And I can't break away from this parade G D But There's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me F# Bm A Through this maze of ugliness and greed G D And I seen the sun up ahead at the county line bridge F# Bm A Sayin' all there's good and nothingness is dead G D We'll run until she's out of breath she ran until there's nothin' left F# Bm A She hit the end-it's just her window ledge [Fill 4] | G | % | % | % | x2 | F# | % | % | % | x2 [Chorus] G D Em Hey, come on try a little nothing is forever A There's got to be something better than in the middle G D Em But me and Cinderella we put all together A We can drive it home with one headlight [Solo] G D F# Bm A G D F# Bm A [Verse 3] G D Well this place is old It feels just like a beat up truck F# Bm A I turn the engine, But the engine doesn't turn G D Well it smells of cheap wine and cigarettes this place is always such a mess F# Bm A Sometimes I think I'd like to watch it burn G D I'm so alone, and I feel just like somebody elce F# Bm A Man i ain't changed, but i know I ain't the same G D But somewhere here in between the city walls of dyin' dreams F# Bm A I think her death it must be killin' me [Fill 5] | G | % | % | % | x2 | F# | % | % | % | x2 [Chorus] G D Em Hey, come on try a little nothing is forever A There's got to be something better than in the middle G D Em But me and Cinderella we put all together A We can drive it home with one headlight [Outro] G D Em A