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Standard Tuning
(chords are relative to capo)
CHORDS USED (All fingerstlye, no strumming):
DO MIm LAm FA
e--0-- --0-- --0-- --1--
B--1-- --0-- --1-- --1--
G--0-- --0-- --2-- --2--
D--2-- --2-- --2-- --3--
A--3-- --2-- --0-- --0--
E--0-- --0-- --0-- --0--
INTRO
C, Em, Am, F (x2)
VERSE 1:
DO MIm
Me and My best friend Jim started our own band
LAm FA
When I was fifteen living in Deutschland.
DO MIm
Didn't matter that we could hardly play
LAm FA
Came up with a crazy name, called the band "Queen UK"
DO MIm
I played the guitar, he played drums
LAm FA
Our parents told us one day we'd be bums
DO MIm
And everyday we'd go over to his parents house
LAm FA
And in the basement we'd play as hard and loud
DO MIm
As we could get it. It drove his mom mad
LAm FA
But it never seemed to bother his drunk dad.
DO MIm
We wrote five or six, songs or so
LAm FA
We played them at the high school talent show
DO MIm
We blew the shit up. The girls went crazy.
LAm FA
We looked so cool. They called us 'baby.'
DO MIm
And after that man, we had it made.
LAm FA
The normal life was later-ade.
INTERLUDE:
C, Em, Am, F...
VERSE 2:
DO MIm
Well I moved to Austin, he moved to LA after living in Seattle.
LAm FA
I joined a funk band, he got all into heavy metal.
DO MIm
It was a wild time. I did a lot of blotter.
LAm FA
It was like some bad episode of "Welcome Back Kotter".
DO MIm
I went out to LA to visit him.
LAm FA
But he was all messed up playing in some shitty band.
DO MIm
Snorting heroin. He had like ten tatoos.
LAm FA
We smoked some serious kind, drank a ton of booze.
DO MIm
We joked around alot. We'd always say
LAm FA
We've come so far since the good ol' days.
INTERLUDE:
C, Em, Am, F...
VERSE 3:
DO MIm
It was a blur but, I don't really remember much.
LAm FA
Just glad to get the hell out, I never liked LA too much.
DO MIm
Austin was more laid back, more like my kind of town.
LAm FA
People kickin it, not so tightly wound.
DO MIm
My bands kept breaking up, like they always do.
LAm FA
I kept getting by, and pulling through.
DO MIm
I got a phone call from Jim one night in ninety-eight
LAm FA
He didn't sound so good he said 'I need a break'.
DO MIm
He said can I come to stay for a week or so.
LAm FA
I said 'That'd be cool. No problem bro.'
DO MIm
But I never spoke to him again after that.
LAm FA
I got a call from this guy in Jim's band Aftermath.
DO MIm
He said that Jim had died sometime last week or so.
LAm FA
In his apartment, some kind of overdose.
DO MIm
The police couldn't find his folks, and maybe did I know
LAm FA
How to get a hold of them and I said I did and so
DO MIm
They called his parents up and it was shitty but,
LAm FA
I went to the funeral and I was all fucked up.
DO MIm
And I felt responsible in some weird ol' way.
LAm FA
But there was nothing I could do, there was nothing I could say.
INTERLUDE:
C, Em, Am, F (x2)...
VERSE 4:
DO MIm
That's the way it goes when fate is king.
LAm FA
You can't tell the world how to do its thing.
DO MIm
You can just hold on tight, let it take you for a ride.
LAm FA
And maybe you might make it to the other side.
DO MIm
Well in the end I guess, it doesn't matter so.
LAm FA
I guess I'll tell you everything I know now.
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