Paul Bass

Based directly off of shupershammy’s tab on youtube-
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=umYbtbwJE5g
 
 
[Verse 1]
 
Oh, the last time I saw Paul
I was horrible and almost let him in
But I stopped and caught the wall
And my mouth got dry so all I did was take him for a spin
 
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  Yeah we hopped inside my car      And I drove in circles ‘round the freight train
 
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  yard        And he turned the headlights off       Then he pulled the bottle out
 
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  And then he showed me what was love
 
[Chorus 1]
 
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  I’ll be your morning bright goodnight shadow machine  I’ll be your record player
 
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  baby if you know what I mean / I’ll be your real tough cookie with the whiskey
 
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  breath / I’ll be a killer and a thriller and the cause of our death
 
[Verse 2]
 
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  In the blossom of the months      I was sure that I’d get driven off with thought
 
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                So I swollowed all of it         As I realized there was no one who
 
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  kiss away my shit
 
[Chorus 1]
 
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  I’ll be your morning bright goodnight shadow machine  I’ll be your record player 
 
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  baby if you know what I mean / I’ll be your real tough cookie with the whiskey
 
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  breath / I’ll be a killer and a thriller and the cause of our death
 
[Interlude]
 
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[Verse 3]
 
Paul, I know you said that you’d take me any way I came or went
 
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  But I’ll push you from my brain / See, you’re gentle, baby I couldn’t stay
 
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  I’d only bring you pain
 
[Chorus 2]
 
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  I was your starry-eyed lover and the one that you saw / I was your hurricane
 
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  rider and the woman you’d call / We were just two moonshiners on the cup of a breath
 
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  And I’ve been burning for you baby since the day that you left
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