Jawbreaker – Friends Back East (Guitar)

G                C
 Welcome to your new home.

Bm                      C
Here's your bed. You'll sleep alone.

Em             D
  Getting everything you wanted.

Em             Bm               C
  Getting everything you wanted and some.

G                    C
 Here's the kitchen. Cook alone.

Bm                C
Look at the water boil.

Em             D
  At the table sit and stare.

Em                     Bm               C
  Soup with bread with so much care for it.

Em                    D
  All my friends back east keep asking,

G                             C
"What have you done with your life?"

Am              C                 G C G D
  Just a little too strung out to lie.

G            C
 Suddenly it seems so clear.

  Bm                     C
Rejecting what you can't have.

Em                D
  Light a candle, smoke and pray

Em                 Bm           C
All good sins will find you one day.

G            C
 Now another month is gone.

Bm                C
Soon it will be a year.

Em              D
  Go to bed and say out loud,

Em            Bm             C
  "Is it over where it's all gone wrong?"

Em                    D
  All my friends back east keep asking,

G                             C
"What have you done with your life?"

am              C                 G
  Just a little too strung out to lie.

G     Eb
 My ambition

Bb            C
Keeps getting in the way.

G       Eb
 When I found my voice

Bb                C
  There's nothing left to say.

G    Eb
 Inhibition

Bb         C
Keeps me behind this door.

G           Eb
My life's a running joke.

Bb         C                 G   Eb Bb C
What am I? What am I running for?