Baby, I'm Back
G+D, D sus 4, C7, G+D
I.
Ah, you know that love is great but it doesn't always work out/
Sometimes you get yourself left in the dirt/
Your heart is broke to pieces and you cry yourself an ocean/
And the world goes crazy gray and cold with hurt.
The days are full of misery, the nights are dark with woe/
the sky above is thick with clouds and rain/
But get your shit together, got to dig out of your grief/
Move yourself back into your life again.
Chorus:
G, D, C7, G
Baby, I'm back (I'm back!) and you know you done me wrong/
I'm back (I'm back!) and I got a brand new song/
I'm back (I'm back!) and you can't keep me low/
I'm movin' and a shakin' and everybody's gonna know.
II.
They say the past is gone and you know that it is true/
You wouldn't do it over if you could/
Got to look ahead at what's on the road before you/
Wipe the smoke out of your mind and call it good.
In the war between the sexes there's winners and there's losers/
You know that's how the game was made/
The battles are a bitch and the field can get all bloody/
And each and every one of us, we all get played.
Chorus
III.
The better part of life is just in showing up/
Gotta hit your marks and say your part/
The worst way to end it is to check out too early/
Sometimes you gotta use your head to lead your heart.
Gotta stay the course, don't get yourself distracted/
Don't spend your money drinking on a binge/
Go and buy some new clothes, and smile because you know it/
That living well is still the best revenge.
Chorus, repeat last line, slow it down, and out.
2 comments:
Did you have a lot of heartbreaks in your wildin' days, Steve?
One or two. Been a long time, but it's a common enough experience that most people can relate.
I've never played with methamphetamine, but I have seen people who ruined their lives with hard drugs, so I can speak to it.
That's why love and death resonate, the commonality, and why nearly everything I have ever written in any genre has one or both of those at its heart.
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