PUP – Scorpion Hill (Guitar)

E              A             E
Up on Scorpion Hill watching life

                     A     B
Passing me by in the pale moonlight

E                              A              C#m
And I sat there forever, three sheets to the wind

B
It's not helping my case, the state that I'm in

A                     E
But it's not how they told you

A                  E
My intentions were good

A                                  E
I was just bursting apart like the end of the ark

C#m                      F#m        A
Holding on to whatever I could

E                           B                     A
A square of light moves its way through the empty room

E                         F#m
Across the stained yellow carpet

E                 B           A
Like a ghost of myself in the afternoon

            C
Haunting my basement apartment

B           C
I looked in to the mirror

C#m               A
Hanging behind my door

B                             C
The glass was cracked and the man staring back

C#m                   A
He don't look like me anymore

           B
And if the world is gonna burn

     C
Everyone should get a turn to light it up

C#m  A   E    G#    C#m  A            E G#
Down and out, I've been on the rocks

C#m  A    E           A           F#m
I've been having some pretty dark thoughts

                    B   Cm
Yeah, I like them a lot

E             B                          A
Time and time again, well I've tried and failed to get my act together

E                     G#m                        A
And I'll admit lately things really went off the rails

C
I know that you deserve better

B                   C
But in the morning, as I was boarding

C#m                   A
The commuter train to work

B                               C
The boss was calling, he said, "There's been cutbacks and

C#m                  A
I'm sorry you're the first"

B
And If I can't support the two of us

Cm
How can I support a third?

C#m  A   E    G#   C#m  A            E G#
Down and out, I've been on the rocks

C#m  A    E           A           F#m
I've been having some pretty dark thoughts

B
And I'm on the brink

E
Falling deep into debt

A
Falling deep into drink

F#m
I can drown those regrets

                B    G#
I don't have to think

A                         E
Now I'm working the night shift

A             E
Asleep at the wheel

A                           E
I was bursting apart like a flame from a spark

C#m       F#m
Thinkin' "Jesus, this can't be for real"

A               E
My sweat-soaked mattress

A              E
Corner of the room

A              E
Cigarettes and matches

C#m            F#m
In the fading afternoon

A
And a picture of my kid, yeah, he's smiling

                      E
It's the first day of school

F#m                    B                  E
She said, "I found the gun, it was buried beneath

         A                                  F#m
Piles of clothes in the room where your son sleeps

             B               G#
And I can't pretend, to know how this will end"