The All-American Rejects – Jacks Lament (Guitar)

G                  D
There are few who deny

          C            Em
At what I do, I am the best

G                  D                Em
For my talents are renowned far and wide

G                 D              C
When it comes to surprises in the moonlit night

Em                        G*
I excel without ever even trying

G                                      D
With the slightest little effort of my ghost-like charms

       C                         Em
I have seen grown men give out a shriek

G                  D         C
With a wave of my hand and a well-placed moan

Em                                      G*
I have swept the very bravest off their feet

D              G              C    Em
Yet, year after year, it's the same routine

D                          G
And I grow so weary of the sound of screams

D*     G*        Em
And I, Jack, the Pumpkin King

D                          G
Have grown so tired of the same old thing

D             G     C
Oh, somewhere deep inside of these bones

D            Em
An emptiness began to grow

        D         G         C
There's something out there far from my home

D                    Em
A longing that I've never known

G                               D
I'm the master of fright and a demon of light

         C                           Em
And I'll scare you right out of your pants

G                         D      C
To a guy in Kentucky, I'm Mister Unlucky

Em                                   G*
And I'm known throughout England and France

G                          D
And since I am dead, I can take off my head

    C                    Em
To recite Shakespearean quotations

G            D        C
No animal nor man can scream like I can

Em                    G*
With the fury of my recitations

D       G           C        Em
But who here would ever understand

D                              G
That the Pumpkin King with the skeleton grin

D                 G              C    Em
Would tire of his crown? If they only understood

D                                  G*
He would give it all up if he only could

D              G     C
Oh, there's an empty place in my bones

     D              Em
That calls out for something unknown

D            G           C
The fame and praise come year after year

D                      Em
Does nothing for these empty tears