Next Of Kin Cifras

[Intro]
 
A C#m D E x2
 
[Verse]
 
A                       C#m
I saw a crash on the interstate
D                              E
It left a feeling I could not shake
A                    C#m
Just a name in a database who
D            E
must be notified
D                         E
It's not a phone call I wanna make
C#m                    F#m
A stranger answers, I hesitate
C#m                     F#m
Got some bad news that couldn't wait
D                 E
Are you sitting down?
 
[Verse]
 
A                            C#m
Her bathrobe hangs on the bedroom door
D                          E
Though she's been dead for a year or more
A                     C#m
He buried her by the sycamore
D                      E
So that he could keep her close
D                         E
It broke his heart and it made him old
C#m                    F#m
Tries to rebuild but it just erodes
C#m                        F#m
Some people say that's the way it goes
D                      E
But he don't feel that way
 
[Harmonica]
 
A C#m D E x2
 
[Verse]
 
A                       C#m
Get too drunk and you can't perform
D                         E
Something dies when a star is born
A                       C#m
I spread my anger like Agent Orange
D              E
I was indiscriminate
D                       E
Yeah, I met Lou Reed and Patty Smith
C#m                     F#m
It didn't make me feel different
C#m                     F#m
I guess I lost all my innocence
D             E
Way too long ago
 
[Harmonica]
 
A C#m D E x2
 
[Verse]
A                         C#m
She called my bluff and she won the fight
D                         E
I ran outside in the hot twilight
A                        C#m
I had a lighter that didn't light
D                      E
Well I know I shouldn't smoke
D                       E
I was going, I was free to leave
C#m                     F#m
Walking fast down the Bowery
C#m                     F#m
Tears in my eyes so I couldn't see
D                      E
But I made my way back home
 
[Outro]
 
A C#m D E
A C#m D E
C#m D
C#m D E
C#m F#m Dm A
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