Waiting On The Rain Intro: G - C - G Em - C - D Am7 What's the forecast, baby? Are we in for a storm? Em And will it ever get warm? Will it ever get warm? Am7 I wanna call you lately, but I hate my phone. Em I picked up your vices. I feel less alone. Am And of all I could say, and of all I could do, Bm - Am - D I still wouldn't say sorry, no, not to you. G I'm waiting on the rain Em to come a-tumblin' down D and help me live again. G I'm waiting on a sign, C - D - G to show me you were never mine. I've got the bottle open, but the wine just stares like your memory when it catches me unawares. I've been wondering lately, did we even try to be a little bit giving, just a little bit kind? But of all I could say, and of all I could do I still wouldn't give my love, my love, my love to you. I'm waiting on the rain to come a-tumblin' down and help me live again. I'm waiting on a sign, to show me you were never mine. C - G Ooooo, since you been gone there ain't no one as lonesome as me. C - G It's hard to explain because my heart and my brain can't agree. Em - Am I love you, I hate you, I want you, I crave you, C - D and when you come back I just know I can make you see. D7 I'll make you believe.... I'm waiting on the rain to come a-tumblin' down and help me live again. I'm waiting on a sign, to show me you were never mine.

Intro Bm - F# - A Bm - F# Bad man, come my way A Smoke in your bones, and debts to pay Bm - F# - A Keep my suicide at bay. Hands slow, lamp down low, my lips get loose when the whiskey flows I'll tell you anything you wanna know. G - D Baby you're keeping me waiting Bm - A - Em Planets never align G - D But all of the days that you're wasting Bm - A - Em you don't get em back when you die G - D - A - Bm - A G - D - F# Na-na-etc. Sweet lies, making me dance Voodoo daydream, tempest trance your body is my holiday then I'm cuttin' your fingers outta my hair evidence on me everywhere You keep talking, baby, I don't care, I don't care You got so many reasons for waiting The wind and the moon and the tide but all of the days that you're wasting you don't get em back when you die Na-na Bad man, come my way Smoke in your bones and debts to pay Keep my suicide at bay.

Mercy Am - G I spend my days dreaming, catching the rain on my C - E tongue there's a flower every time I speak your name, and Am - G when you're around me I lose track of time, you're so C - E easy on the eyes, so gentle on my mind. Am - G - Am Have mercy on me. Am - C - E Oh, I said, mercy, mercy, please Am - G - B7 Oo, I'll fall down on my knees Am - G - Am Oo, have mercy on me. Now I spend my days lying about you and me, I'm just so tired of erasing all the spaces in between and when you're not around me, I lose who I am. I wake up at midnight reaching for your hand. Have mercy on me. Oh, I said, mercy, mercy, please Oo, I'll fall down on my knees Oo, have mercy on me. Dm - Am And now my head, my head is underwater. Dm - Am And now my sky, my sky is always grey. Dm - Am - C I love to see you when you come, but I know you won't stay. E - G Let me take you to a party I'll put you on the stage, E - G let you in my life, I'll show you how I rage, babe. E - G Do you know that I suffer, keeping it undercover? n.c Talking to you like a bro when I know that you know in my head we talk sweet, in my head we move slow. Slow, ooo... Have mercy on me. Oh, I said, mercy, mercy, please Oo, I'll fall down on my knees Oo, have mercy on me.

Black Sheep Bm - A/Asus4 Do you see me in your dreams? Em - F# - G - A A fish in the ocean wide, or a bird that forgot to fly. Do you see me when you close your eyes? A smoke ring blown in the night, the last strains of a lullaby. F# - G - D Well, you can't keep hanging on. We said goodbye, not 'I love you'. We didn't even try. I walked through the gates and you stayed on the other side. Now I wonder what else we left unsaid. Questions blow through my head, sinking like zeppelins of lead. Well, you can't keep hanging on F# - G - D to what you know is long gone. Em - G Your hopeful prophecies shattered at my feet Bm - A but you can't say I'm not useful in the capacity of black sheep. I wasn't what you want, never gave you what you need, but you can't say I'm not useful in the capacity of black sheep. So do you see me in your dreams? Sweet visions of what you had, or a nightmare gone from worse to bad. And do you let me up in your head? Do you remember what I told you, all those pretty things I said? Like you can't keep hanging on to what you know is long gone. Your hopeful prophecies shattered at my feet but you can't say I'm not useful in the capacity of black sheep. I wasn't what you want, never gave you what you need, but you can't say I'm not useful in the capacity of black sheep, black sheep Bye bye, black sheep. Bye bye, black sheep.

Let Go, Give Up C Let go, give up. F - C It's never gonna work itself out, anyway. C Go out, get drunk. F - C If you sacrifice your standards, make it pay. G - Am I'm tired of fighting, is upstream really the right way? F - C Just let the water take me, down, down, down, down. G - Am I'm tired of trying to keep the dream from dying. F - C - G - C Just let the water take me, down, down, down, down, down. Blissed out, expired. Every day a little closer to the grave. Deny your fire. Don't indulge what you can't explain. I'm tired of fighting, is upstream really the right way? Just let the water take me, down, down, down, down. I'm tired of trying to keep the dream from dying. Just let the water take me, down, down, down, down, down. Too late, so gone. I could never force myself to call your name. Don't ask, don't tell. Time'll just make you older and afraid. C - C/B - Am - G Just let the water take me, Oo, let the water take me, Just let the water take me down, F - G - C take me down, down, down. Just let the water take me, Oo, let the water take me, C - C/B - Am - F - G - C Just let the water take me down, down, down, down, down.

D - A I once knew a man, though not very long Em - G - A He told a good story, he sang a good song. D - A A minstrel, a jester, a joker, a tease Em - G - A But oh, he was lovely to me. F#m - Em - F#m - Em - G Such are my memories, and soon they will fade. F#m - Em - Bm - A - G The truth is an alibi, it just gets in my way. D - A I'll raise my glass to the dreamers, wishers and liars Em - G - A hopers and prayers and magic bean buyers D - A Comfort me now, because I'm old and I'm tired Em - G - A and I'm dreaming of simpler things F#m - Em Oo, simpler things. The names keep on changing, but the story's the same. One lover is leaving, one is waiting in vain, in vain. I'll raise my glass to the dreamers, wishers and liars hopers and prayers and fairweather flyers. To the drunkards and gamblers that nobody hires and the bosses that never get laid. Bm - A - Em - G - A Will you stand at the edge of the land where the rivers wash into the sea? Bm - A - Em - G If you can, I'll hold on to your hand as long as you help me believe. D - A All of this passion and all of this fire, D - Em - G where does it go when my body expires? D - A How many more lies until I can retire? Em - G How many more dreams? Bm - A - Em - G - A I've lived my life on the edge of a knife, on the brink of a catastrophe. Bm - A - Em - G But I've tried to smile when I cry and say 'thank you' whenever I bleed. D - A And I'll still raise my glass to the dreamers, wishers and liars Em - G - A hopers and prayers and magic bean buyers D - A Comfort me now, because I'm old and I'm tired Em - G - A and I'm dreaming of simpler things D - A - Em - G - A Oo, simpler things. D - A - Em Simpler things. G - A - D

Paradise B - A - E Well I been playing in a country band B - A - E And that suits me just fine. B - A - E It pays in beers, and whiskey tears, and G - A damn good times. B - A - E There's a young man who likes the way I talk B - A - E and he's got a lot to say. B - A - E I try to steal a kiss off his cherry lips, G - A but his hat is in my way. G - A Oh baby, whatcha tryna say? B - F# Love me naughty, baby, treat me right A - E Show me the way to your paradise. B - F# - A I'm headed to heaven, but I won't die. E - A - B Not until I see the morning light. Sit me down on your blue jean knee, tell me it's okay. I been working the whole damn week tonight I came to play. Take me dancing on the table tops no sorrows, and no shoes. Don't be actin' like you don't want to. You got nothing to lose baby, I got nothing to lose Love me naughty, baby, treat me right Show me the way to your paradise. I'm headed to heaven, but I won't die. Not until I see the morning light. D - E Ooo, sailor moonlight symphony, they got that spotlight on me. D - E I'm a wild prairie flower, you're my honeybee. D - C#m Splash champagne in the hall, talk big but I'm feelin' small. F# - A - I'll be gentle but I won't be nice, this ain't heaven, B - E it's paradise. B - E Won't you show me the way? Ooo, show me the way. Ooo, show me the way. Ooo, show me the way to your paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise

Old Friends C - F I was holding you in high regard Dm - G - C long before I held you in my arms. I loved you for your smile, for your style and your good old fashioned charm. F - Am I loved you long before I let you walk me to my door. Dm - G - G7 Long before I let you in. C - F - Dm And no matter how it ends, maybe later, G - C we can be old friends. I never try to chain you cause you're stubborn and you've got to have your way. I leave you free to exit through the back door to ramble and to stray. There are times when I'm alone and I'm wishing you'd come home, but then when you do, I love you even more. So, no matter where you've been, maybe later, we can be old friends. C - F - G - C Oo - oo -oo. Oo - oo -oo. Through the moonlight and the moonshine and the dizzy days we wasted on the waves I swear I never saw the landscape, I was busy trying to memorize your face. I keep postcards and photographs of lives we left behind. I remember each hello, every goodbye and if I had to look ahead, I'd say we're gonna be old friends. When our broken hearts and promises are spirited away across the sand, when our beauty's turned to dust and desire's holding on with shaky hands when all those letters that I'm gonna write to you fade away and can't be read you'll still have them in your head from way way back, before we were old friends.