^Am: 01220x ^F/C: 01233x ^G: 300023 ^C: 01023x ^G/C: 010233

^Am ^F/C x2 ^Am I'm all washed out by the side of the road ^F/C Broken bones Matilda left a note and a rose Saying ^Am "Baby, honey child, I loved you so long but you ^F/C deserve much better than me"

^Am So I'm just burning all around All the miles in the road ^F/C And I'm never going back And I'm never going home ^Am I've been gone too long I've been less right than wrong ^F/C I've lost so much blood in the ^G falling ^C out

And I lit a ^C fire that wouldn't go out Until it ^G consumed the walls and roof of this house And all I ^Am remember was burning away And all I ^F/C remember, you're burnin' ^G away

^Am See for 10 long years I've been hustling around ^F/C Tryin' to wash the sins and sweat from my brow ^Am Just trying to find a better life for me and my own ^F/C Just some rest for these tired working fingers

^Am But nobody never gonna tell you the way You gotta ^F/C figure it out boys And suffer the rain, and the ^Am fools in the night, and the heat of the day When all you ^F/C ever really wanted was for ^G someone to under^Cstand

And I lit a ^C fire that wouldn't go out Until it ^G consumed the walls and roof of this house And all I ^Am remember was burning away And all I ^F/C remember, you're burnin' ^G away Well don't you take it so ^C hard and baby don't you cry You cross your hard ^G heart and hope to die Don't you tell me no ^Am more lies, you lied all the time Don't you tell me no ^F/C more lies, you lied every ^G night

And you're sugar and ^Am spice, and everything ^C nice You got Monroe ^F/C hips, your poison lips and ^G/C knives And your sugar and ^Am spice, and everything ^C nice You got open ^F/C wounds in a young boy's ^G/C pride

And I lit a ^C fire that wouldn't go out Until it ^G consumed the walls and roof of this house And all I ^Am remember was burning away And all I ^F/C remember, you're burnin' ^G away Well don't you take it so ^C hard and baby don't you cry You cross your hard ^G heart and hope to die Don't you tell me no ^Am more lies, you lied all the time Don't you tell me no ^F/C more lies, you lied every ^G night

^F/C Time, time, tickin' ^Am away ^F/C Time, time, tickin' ^Am away (All over your face) ^F/C Time, time, tickin' ^Am away (All over my face) ^F/C Time, time, tickin' ^Am away

The Gaslight Anthem - Film noir