Tom: Dm
Intro pattern (repeat 2x)**
Dm
E|--------------------1---------| **also play at end of first chorus
B|------------------3---3----3--|
G|---------------2---------2----|
D|--0-(let ring)----------------|
A|------------------------------|
E|------------------------------|
DmCBb
Just down the street from your hotel, baby
DmCBb
I stay at home with my disease
DmCBb
And ain't this position familiar, darling
DmCBb
Well, all monkeys do what they see
GmBb
Help me stay awake, I'm falling...
Down on Virginia and La Loma
Where I got friends who'll care for me
You got an attitude of everything I ever wanted
I got an attitude of need
Help me stay awake, I'm falling...
CHORUS:
FCBb
Asleep in perfect blue buildings
FCBb
Beside the green apple sea
FCBb
Gonna get me a little oblivion, baby
FCBb 1.| Dm** 2.| F
Try to keep myself away from | me | (myself and) me
| |
It's 4:30 A.M. on a Tuesday
It doesn't get much worse than this
In beds in little rooms in buildings in the middle
of these lives which are completely meaningless
Help me stay awake, I'm falling...
(CHORUS)
I got bones beneath my skin, and mister...
There's a skeleton in every man's house
Beneath the dust and love and sweat that hangs on everybody
There's a dead man trying to get out
Please help me stay awake, I'm falling...
(CHORUS)
Raining in Baltimore
Tom: DmDmBbCAm7
This circus is falling down on its knees
DmFCAm7
The big top is crumbling down
DmBbCAm7
It's raining in Baltimore fifty miles east
DmBbCAm7
Where you should be, no one's around
BbF
I need a phone call
BbF
I need a raincoat
BbF
I need a big love
BbF
I need a phone call
These train conversations are passing me by
And I don't have nothing to say
You get what you pay for
But I just had no intention of living this way
I need a phone call
I need a plane ride
I need a sunburn
I need a raincoat
CBb
And I get no answers
CBb
And I don't get no change
CBbF
It's raining in Baltimore, baby
CFC
But everything else is the same
There's things I remember and things I forget
I miss you I guess that I should
Three thousand five hundred miles away
But what would you change if you could?
I need a phone call Maybe I should buy a new car
I can always hear a freight train If I listen real hard
And I wish it was a small world
Because I'm lonely for the big towns
I'd like to hear a little guitar
I think it's time to put the top down
I need a phone call
I need a raincoat