Mark Lanegan – Skeleton Key (Guitar)

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album version - STRAIGHT SONGS OF SORROW _________________________________________ _________________________________________ [VERSE 1]
B        G
   Ugly, I'm so very ugly

    D                E                 B
I'm ugly, inside and out, there's no denyin'

B        G
Love me, why would you ever love me?

   D                  E               B
No one has ever loved me yet, pretty baby

B             G
Skeleton key, it won't open up

D             E               B
It won't open any lock I have on me

B       G
Rusted, bent and rusted

     D        E        B
Your precious skeleton key
[VERSE 2]
B                       G
I spent my life, tryin' every way to die

   D             E               B
Is it my fate to be the last one standin'?

          B                          G
Don't you know it's a crime? All the shadowy peaks I climb

    D             E          B
And I have yet to ever be remanded

     D             E          B
Yes, I have yet to ever be remanded

B     G
Holy, holy

D               E           B
All of your religions are a lie

B        G
Hold me, don't ya try to hold me

  D              E                     B
I clearly see my own way to the other side

     D                  E                 B
Yes, I will make my own way to the other side
[VERSE 3]
B       G
Cryin', quit your cryin'

D             E            B
Sun'll likely rise again tomorrow

       B               G
As you follow me down, through the underground

D              E               B
I would hook a leash upon your collar

        B                    G
Nothin' good is sustained, I gladly accept the blame

    D                  E            B
But all my words won't add up to a dollar

     D                  E            B
Yes, all my words won't add up to a dollar
[VERSE 4]
B        G
Love me, don't say that you love me

  D             E                    B
Nobody has ever loved me yet, pretty baby

B       G
Cryin', quit your cryin'

       D            E                   B
I have ten thousand tears that you can borrow

         B              G
Come on, follow me down through the underground

    D              E              B
And I will sing to you a song of sorrow

       D             E                        B
I will sing to you a sweet, straight song of sorrow

       D              E                           B
I will sing you all a sweet, straight song of sorrow

       D              E                        B
I will sing you all a sweet, straight song of sorrow

D             E                   B
Skeleton key,   where are ya? Hey-yeah
[VERSE 5]
B             G
Skeleton key, bent and rusted

D           E                   B
All of your dreams are locked away

    B                   G
The hands have stopped, on the timekeeper's clock

D               E                     B
You have got to learn to breathe underwater

      D                        E               B
Yeah, you have got to breathe, breathe underwater

B             G
Skeleton key, bent and rusted

   D             E                  B
As broken as the heart the dirt has eaten

B        G
Love me, don't pretend to love me

     D              E              B
I've lost enough to know when I am beaten

     D              E                      B
I've lost enough to know when I've been beaten

     D              E                      B
I've lost enough to know when I've been beaten

            D              E                      B
Yes, I have lost enough to know when I've been beaten