The Raconteurs – Thoughts And Prayers (Guitar)

D
How can the grim reaper creep

Am
If he really doesn't have the time?

D
And how long would you sleep

Am
If the sun decided not to shine?

D
There's a man who lives up the block

Am
He doesn't even own a clock

D
Sometimes he stays awake for days

Am                         C  G  D
He's doin' it his own way

C          G                D
I used to give my friends a call

C          G               D
Now there's no one left at all

C          G              D
I think my father used to say

C                   G
"There's got to be a different way

    F            Em
To make myself feel okay"

D
Or maybe that's just how he used to pray

D
And who cares how people live

Am
If living's all they got?

D
And who knows how money grows?

Am
Drop a nickel in a pot

D
I wrote a letter down to you

Am
Like I'm Sullivan Ballou

D
It's a recipe for blue

Am             C  G  D
Like it's 1862

C          G             D
Maybe I'm just a castaway

C          G             D
Or a poor boy led astray

C          G             D
There's no one left here to betray

C              G
The only child of the earth

F                Em
Nobody left here to give birth

Dm
It's hard to tell now what that's worth

C          G             D
I used to look up at the sky

C          G             D
Up at the beautiful blue sky

C          G                   D
But now the earth has turned to gray

C                   G
There's got to be a better way

F                  Em
To talk to God and hear her say

D
"There are reasons why it is this way"