Poison – Something To Believe In (Guitar Acoustic)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)
Key
-
Versions (4)

Auto-scroll

Chords

This version was a bonus track on 'Best Of Ballads & Blues" It has different lyrics and is purely acoustic. Play A/F#m like: (044200) Play G#m/E like: (066400) Play A/E like: (077600) [Verse 1]
E
I came home from school on Tuesday

A/F#m
To find my mother gone

E
Why she left I'll never know

A/F#m
It seemed like they got along

E                         A/F#m
For one of these days I'd like to know

G#m/E                  A/E
Just where it all went wrong
[Verse 2]
E
A woman torn to tears asks

A/F#m
Who the real criminals are

E
Or when they told her, her husband died

A/F#m
Fighting in another country's drug wars

E
She said it isn't the kids on the streets without a dream

A/F#m
Shooting up the dealers smack

E
It's them red tape politicians

A/F#m
Taking all the drug lords kickbacks

E                   A/F#m
Isn't it funny what power and money

G#m/E                   A/E
Can do to the soul of a man?
[Chorus]
                         E
And give me something to believe in, yeah

             Asus2
If there's a lord above

                       E                      Asus2
Ah give me something to believe in, yeah,  Oh lord arise
[Verse 3]
E
He got a second job at night now

A/F#m
Just to help pay the bills

E
And there he worked for the rest of his life

A/F#m
'Cause his wife had taken ill
[Verse 4]
E
And now he lives on a bottle of courage

A/F#m
He buys at the liquor store

E
He did his family real good

A/F#m
Until he couldn't do it anymore

G#m/E              A/F#m     G#m/E           A/E
Whatever he found, Why he broke down, No one's really sure
[Chorus]
                         E
Just needed something to believe in, yeah

             Asus2
If there's a lord above

                       E                      Asus2
He needed something to believe in, yeah,  Oh lord arise

E                                     A/F#m
Tracked some of societies race on the old man's face

    G#m/E                  A/E
His eyes blood red laid to waste
[Solo] B A B A E Asus2 E Asus2 G#m/E A/F#m G#m/E A/E [Verse 5]
E
Well, the mirror tells a different story

A/F#m
Then the one that's playing in my mind

E
Every time I swear I'm looking younger

A/F#m
The more lines that I find
[Verse 6]
E
I guess I learned to trade youth for wisdom

A/F#m
And lust in for romance

E
It's all written in the stages and

A/F#m
Phases of life's little dance

E                    A/F#m
But when I want to bitch about growing old

G#m/E                        A/E
I think how many never had a chance
[Chorus]
                         E
It gives me something to believe in, yeah

             Asus2
If there's a Lord above

                       E                      Asus2
It gives me something to believe in, yeah,  Oh Lordy, Lord arise

             E
Something to believe in

   Asus2
Oh Lord, above

                         E
It gives me something to believe in, yeah

   Asus2
Oh Lord, arise
E A/F#m E A/F#m
G#m/E     A/F#m
Sometimes I wish I didn't know now

G#m/E             A/E
Things I did know then, yeah
G#m/E A/F#m G#m/E A/E
                         E    
And give me something to believe in, yeah-e-yeah