Gene Watson – Desperation (Guitar)

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Track 5 of 10 on the album "Paper Rosie" (1977) [Intro] A E7 A [Verse 1]
        A                                                 A7
On this lonely bed, I'm lying, deep inside my mind, just crying

      D                                A
For a way to break this hold she has on me

  E7                                A
I wish that she would call, but the phone upon the wall

         B7                       E7
Seems to turn the time into eternity

          A                                                     A7
She keeps walking through my brain, Lord, and I can't stand the strain

     D                                 A
That facing life without her brings to mind

        D                     A                 D
Hurting heavy, hanging on, realizing that she's gone

      A          E7           D A/C# E7/B A
It is only desperation that I find
[Chorus]
      A           D            A
Desperation has a hold upon my body and my soul

                             B7                E7
Loving her was all I had and now, I've lost control

        A            A7            D                 B7
Help me make it to tomorrow, Lord, send me down your soothing word

    A               E7          D A/C# E7/B A
And calm this desperation in my soul
[Verse 2]
          A                                                   A7
Lord, the world is filled with others who were broken-hearted lovers

      D                                     A
And I know they must have faced a night like this

      E7                           A
Empty heart and all alone, hurting clear down to the bone

          B7                           E7
Breathing life into a sweet, remembered kiss

        A                                              A7
Life is just an endless motion, yet I can't dispel the notion  

         D                              A
That without her loving, I can't make it through

             D                              A               D
I'm dreaming daydreams of the past, knowing I have seen the last

       A                E7           D A/C# E7/B A
Of her love and there's nothing I can do     
[Chorus]
      A           D            A
Desperation has a hold upon my body and my soul

                             B7                E7
Loving her was all I had and now, I've lost control

        A            A7            D                 B7
Help me make it to tomorrow, Lord, send me down your soothing word

    A               E7          D A/C# E7/B A
And calm this desperation in my soul

        A               E7          D A/C# E7/B A
Help me calm this desperation in my soul