Verse:
G#mC#m
In the middle of a gun fight...
B
In the center of a restaurant...
D#7G#m
They say, "Come with your arms raised high!"
C#m
Well, theyʼre never gonna get me,
B
Like a bullet through a flock of doves...
D#7G#mC#m
To wage this war against your faith in me,
BD#7G#m
Your life... will never be the same.
C#mB
On your motherʼs eyes, say a prayer...
D#7
say a prayer!
Chorus:
G#m
Now, but I canʼt
C#m
And I donʼt know
B
How weʼre just two men as God had made us,
D#7
Well, I canʼt...well, I can!
G#m
Too much, too late, or just not enough of this
C#m
Pain in my heart for your dying wish,
BD#7
Iʼll kiss your lips again.
Verse:
G#m
They all cheat at cards and the checkers are lost,
C#m
My cellmateʼs a killer, they make me
B
do push-ups (in drag)
D#7
But nobody cares if youʼre losing yourself...
D#7
am I losing myself?!
G#m
Well, I miss my mom,
G#m
Will they give me the chair,
C#m
Or lethal injection, or swing from a rope
B
if you dare;
D#7
Ah, nobody knows... all the trouble Iʼve seen!
Chorus:
G#m
Now, but I canʼt
C#m
And I donʼt know
B
How weʼre just two men as God had made us,
D#7
Well, I canʼt... well, I can!
G#m
Too much, too late, or just not enough of this
C#m
Pain in my heart for your dying wish,
BD#7
Iʼll kiss your lips again.
G#mC#m
To your room...
B
What they ask of you
D#7G#mC#m
Will make you want to say, "So long..."
B
Well, I donʼt remember,
D#7G#m
Why remember...YOU?!
G#mC#m
Do you have the keys to the hotel?!
ʼCause Iʼm gonna string this motherfucker
BD#7
on fire! (FIRE!!)
G#mC#m
Life is but a dream for the dead,
B
And well I, I wonʼt go down by myself,
D#7
But Iʼll go down with my friends.
G#mC#m
Now now now now... (I canʼt explain)
B
Now now now... (I canʼt complain)
D#7
Now now, yeah!
G#m
Now, now, now, now, now, now!