GEm
In one dream there's this girl I love
GEmC
And we dance every wakin' breath
GEm
And in the other they've thrown me in a cell
CEm X2
And they're tryin' me for her death
GEm
I'm only young and young in love
GEmC
As I hold that girl today
GEm
But I'm old and tired and in the cell
CEm X2
And I've nigh on withered away
Bridge:
Play the Intro again, but skip the first time through, so you only play it 4X, all with
“Ooh”s. Note that the first words of the next Verse below (“Y’see my”) fall on the last
and a half of the Bridge.
Verse:
GEm
Y'see my baby' gone away too long
GEmC
And I'm chokin' back the tears
GEm
Disheveled star in a burnt out bar
CEm
And I'm talkin' in my drink
GEm
She promised me the world and more
GEmC
How could she do this to me?
GEm
And now mine's tumblin' down around
CEm
But at least my eyes can see, And those
C C* Em X2
stars in the sky are for me
*Note that for this one version of the Verse, there is an extra line, which contains two
of the C chord.
GEm
So as this fagged-out tinsel town
GEmC
Waves so-long to the sun
GEm
I lay here calmly on my bed
CEm
And the trigger of my gun
GEm
And should that no good woman show up
GEmC
Dancin' from a dream
GEm
I'll squeeze it twice and not think twice
CEm
And relish every scream
Outro:
On the last line of the last Verse, Adam sings “scream” an octave higher, and moves
into the falsetto “Ooh”s like in the Intro. “Scream” replaces the first “Ooh ooh”, so it
like this:
1 & 2 & 3 & 4 & 1 & 2 & 3 & 4 &
Scre- eam oo-ooh ooh oo-ooh
Ooh oo-ooh
Ooh ooh oo-ooh ooh oo-ooh
Ooh ooh ooh ooh
ooh
This arrangement for the song is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the song. You may only use this for private study, scholarship, or research.