Capo 5th fret, standard tuning. Things seem so opposite More and more Everyday I'm asleep when I'm wide awake And the sun shines When it rains Feels like I'm lying when I'm telling the truth And it hurts How it pains When they ask how I'm doing And i just smile in reply I say "Thanks I'm okay" I'm just stumblin' I'm just drunk again It's not my fault anyway Just some song I wrote Just some heart I broke Another ball and chain My father put down his guitar And he spoke His refrain He said "You can write songs 'till you're blue in the face But son nothin's Gonna change" And I think of that now as I'm writing this down trying to catch Your gaze With some pretty words, wrapped in metaphors Hoping I can leave you On a page Take what's killing me, Light it with kerosene, Turn and walk away May each verse I write Be my last compromise To simply numb the pain Because you know as well as I do That these things will fade **Guitar 1 Solo** (2x) I know a woman who lives alone In a house Down the way Who wears a beautiful gown And a thorny crown And hangs paintings without frames She waters her plants And feeds her shepard dog that's locked up With no name And every now and again Something falls and breaks And darkness leads the way 'Cause when her husband died There was no blinding light Just an empty grave Now her hallowed god Is just a calloused fraud And no one's ever saved Sometimes I hear her sing songs so true They remind me Of a place That I've never been But her voice captures me, and I'm forced To retrace The steps to her door Where I hide and listen, 'till her dog barks From its cage And she straightens up, Looks right at me, and demands In a wispy way She says "Who are you?" "What are you going to do?" "Come out and show your face" I said "Ma'm I've tried To try and answer that phrase But if you sing another song, I think we'd be O-kay (Let ring) And should we all die tomorrow At least we had To-day