Rick Springfield – Beautiful Prize (Guitar)

B          F#                     C#m
The father giveth, and the father taketh away,

  E                  B
Johanna prays in her bed,

              F#             C#m
He drinks his beer to the TV chatter,

       E
thinks dark thoughts in his head.

         B                            F#
When the house that he keeps with his hard won pay,

   C#m                  E
is finally asleep after his brutal day.

F#                                 B
He turns his eyes on his beautiful prize.

        E                     B            E/G# B
Johanna watches her door open just a crack,

      E                       B                           E/G#  B
And a hand that once held her runs down the length of her back,

           F#         E
Her fallen angel lies down on her bed

B          F#            E
So much confusion in her beautiful head,

F#                 B    F# C#m E
Johanna closes her eyes.

B                  F#                        C#m
In a house full of secrets the truth doesn't matter,

  E                B                     F#
Johanna buries her shame and dreams of redemption

          C#m          E
They just scatter, she grows numb to the pain

B                      F#
She can't remember how it was before

C#m                      E
She doesn't know who she is anymore

F#                                 B
She's in disguise as his beautiful prize.

        E                         B       E/G# B
Johanna watches her life from the outside

        E                              B                  E/G#  B
And she dreams that one day she'll fly free from this mess,

        F#                         E
She's a hawk trying to soar with a broken wing,

B           F#            E
She doesn't talk anymore about anything

F#                  B    F#
She just closes her eyes.

C#m                            E
She just can't stand his anger, she just can't bear his heat,

C#m                           E                       F#
She takes a long hard look at life on the street, yeah

B                  F#                        C#m     E
In a house full of secrets the truth doesn't matter,

B   F#                 C#m              E
Any dreams of salvation, they just shatter

B       E                         B      E/G# B
Johanna watches her life from the outside

        E                            B                 E/G#
And she dreams of the day she'll fly free from this mess,

B                     F#/A#
She doesn't know what she's waiting for,

        E/G#                         E
Because there's nothing left in this house anymore

F#                                     B   F# C#m
And in his eyes she's just a beautiful prize

      E                     B   F# C#m
Oh Johanna just a beautiful prize

       E     B F# C#m E
Yeah Johanna