Kevin Devine – Ballgame (Guitar)

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[Intro] A A E E Amaj7 A E E [Verse 1]

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A good man doesn't drink

                       E
And I've been drinking alone

So what does that make me?

A
My hands they always shake

                        E
And no one's calling my phone

So what does that make me?

               A
And I know the kid with his guitar

So drunk and anxious Has been done to death But tell me what hasn't

        E
I'll try it

            A
Because I'm selfish enough

To wanna get better But I'm backwards enough

                             E
Not to take any steps to get there

             A
And when you realize it's a pattern

And not a phase It's what you've become And it's what you will stay

       E
That's ballgame

[Pre-Chorus 1]

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Cause I don't got room in my life

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For anyone else

                F#
And I've driven away all the

A                 E
People that could help

                       F#
And I still don't even know what I

       A          E
Need to do to fix myself

A E [Verse 2]

Amaj7         A              Amaj7
And there's a clamp around my chest

            A            E
It tightens every time I lapse into

Another sorry story

Amaj7    A               Amaj7
About my miserable collapse

               A               E
A bronze box I keep encased in glass

And dust off whenever I want your pity

                  Amaj7
Cause lately I've had to come to grips

     A
With scope and figure

       Amaj7                    A
How my problems stack up in a world

               E
Two steps from ruin

(Or maybe it's rapture)

                    Amaj7
Well, either way, I realize that my shit's

         A
About as small as it could be

         Amaj7
But that makes me feel worse for even

A                             E
Feeling this bad in the first place

                Amaj7
Cause there's a war starting soon,

            A
And all the flags'll be waving

             Amaj7
And Daniel's 20-year-old friend

        A                        E
will be ready, And willing, and waiting

He's a Marine and he told me [Pre-Chorus 2]

                  F#
And that makes me sad

        F#m            A
Really, really fucking sad

                   E
But at least he'll act

                  A
I'll just bite my tongue and then say:

 Amaj7                   A
"Daniel, you wish him luck"

  Amaj7                E
I pray that he comes back

                 F#7
For his mother's sake, and then I'll drink

               A
Those thoughts away

                   E       C#m
I've gotten good at that

[Chorus]

               F#7
Cause when you realize it's a pattern

And not a phase

     A
It's what you've become

And it's what you will stay

       E
That's ballgame

        C#m
Oh Oh Oh

              F#7
Yeah when you realize it's a pattern

And not a phase

     A
It's what you've become

And it's what you will stay

       E           C#m
That's ballgame

              F#7
Yeah when you realize it's a pattern

And not a phase

     A
It's what you've become

And it's what you will stay

       E           C#m
That's ballgame

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