VERSE I:
I was just thirty-four years old and I was still
BbmWandering in a haze
I was wondering why everyone I met seemed like they were
F#sus4 F#Lost in a maze
Ebsus4 EbI don't know why I thought I should have some kind of
Divine right to the blues
G#sus4 G#It's sympathy not tears people need when they're the
F#sus4 F#Front Page sad news.
The incense burned away and the
Bb(add2)Stench began to rise
Ebmaj7And lovers now estranged avoided
Catching each others' eyes
Ebmaj7PRE-CHORUS I:
And girls who lost their children cursed the
Fmaj7 Cmaj7Men who fit the coil
Fmaj7 Cmaj7And men not fit for marriage took their
Refuge in the oil
Fmaj7 Cmaj7No-one respects the flame quite like the
Gmaj7 Dmaj7Fool who's badly burned
From all this you'd imagine that there
Gmaj7 Dmaj7Must be something learned . . .
C11CHORUS I
Slit skirts, Jeanie isn't wearing those
CSlit skirts, and I don't ever wear no
Ripped shirts, can't pretend that growing older
Am7Never hurts.
Bb(add2)Knee-pants, Jeanie never wears those
Knee-pants, have to be so drunk to try a
F(add2)New dance, so afraid of every little
Am7Romance . . .
Slit skirts, slit skirts, Jeanie isn't wearing those
DSlit skirts, slit skirts, she wouldn't dare in those
BmSlit skirts, slit skirts, wouldn't be seen dead in those
Slit skirts
C11Romance, romance, why aren't we thinking up
DRomance? Why can't we drink it up
True-heart romance, just need a brief new little
Gmaj7Romance . . .
C11
VERSE II
Let me tell you some more about myself, you know I'm sitting at home
just now.
The big events of the day have passed and the late TV shows have come
on.
I'm number one on the home team, but I still feel unfulfilled. A
silent voice
in a broken heart complains that I'm unskilled. And I know that when
she
thinks of me, she thinks of me as him, but unlike me she don't workout
her
frustrations in the gym.
Recriminations fester and the past can never change, a woman's
expectations
run from both ends of the range.
Once she walked with untamed lovers face between her legs,
Now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg...
[Repeat VERSE I, PRE-CHORUS I & CHORUS I]
FDE
[Repeat last four lines of CHORUS I]
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