Lori McKenna – The Tunnel (Guitar)

         G
Near the old folk's home past Page Street and Ash

     C
That patch of woods next to the pink laundromat

    G                                                     C
The things you learn in middle school, you don't learn in class

           G
Stole some weed from your uncle, so we hopped the fence

       C
By the Section 8 housing, back when we were best friends

G                               C    D
You saw a brick wall, I found a path

                        C                 D
The smell of summer water with nowhere to go

                C
Hanging like vampires under the road

               G
You said, "You can't get out the same way you came in"

   C
Fifteen, you're a kid, sixteen, it changes

      Em                          D                     C
Those walls could've caved in any second for all that I knew

     G
So I held my breath, said a prayer, and kept running

         C
Till the shape of the end took the afternoon sun in

        Em                       D                         C
I don't know how it works or how God picks who gets to get through

                                        D                     G
It just seems like a lot of life's been mostly the tunnel for you

G
Your dad sat on an upside-down bucket in the garage watching westerns

         C
With the sound turned down, a cold beer in his left hand

     G                                          C
Your mother called him in for dinner, then ate alone

       G
No one asks where you're going or asks how you've been

           C
And you're covered in tattoos, just under the skin

           G                                     C
But you're wearing those long sleeves, so nobody knows

D                      C                   D
I bet the road heading south is somebody's north

                     C
Just like somebody's darkness is somebody's torch

          G
Yeah, you can't get out the same way you came in

      C
Still think like a kid when everything changes

      Em                          D                          C
Those walls could've caved in any second and blacked out the blue

      G
And I wanted to save you but I just did nothing

           C
Prayed the shape of the end takes the afternoon sun in

        Em                       D                         C
I don't know how it works or how God picks who gets to get through

                                        D                     G
It just seems like a lot of life's been mostly the tunnel for you

          F                   C                         G
There's a light at the end, a light at the end, keep on running

          F                   C                        G
There's a light at the end, I promise, my friend, it's coming

          Bb                  Am7
There's a light at the end, a light at the end