Verse
C# F# G# C#
When I’m wild with fear, anger and pain,
F#
your voice it comes to me,
G# C#
hold, hold steady and rock slow.
C#
Through the winters yeah, through the summers,
F#
I’ve lost friends, I’ve lost teachers, lovers,
F# C#
they’re gone, gone, gone, but you won’t go.
[Chorus]
C# F#
What a day, what a time, what a long cold night,
G# C#
you gotta hold, hold steady and rock slow.
C# F#
I’m ’a tell no lies, hey, the 45 king he only plays 45s,
G# C#
and the only coca-cola, boys, is a Mexican coke.
[Bridge]
A#m
They came down they were bigger than we were you know,
F#
somebody’s cousin was waving a pistol, well,
G#
you stepped up hit him in his mouth you said:
G#
“Go on put that toy back in its cereal box”.
[Verse 2]
C#
You had a mother on the street, father inside,
F#
uncle was a veteran, yeah, something wasn’t right with him,
G# C#
I caught him looking at me from across the room and it shivered my spine.
C#
Yeah but you had a strength, you had a compass,
F#
you weren’t scared of nobody yeah, you took all comers
G# C#
and the kids that were weaker than you, well, you treated 'em kind.
[Chorus]
C# F#
What a day, what a time, what a long cold night,
G# C#
you gotta hold, hold steady and rock slow.
C# F#
I’m ’a tell no lies, hey, the 45 king he only plays 45s,
G# C#
and the only coca-cola, boys, is a Mexican coke.
[Interlude]
C# F# G# C#
[Verse 3]
C#
Well, they said you lost your mind
F#
but it was more like something ate it out from the inside
G# C#
and you walked through the streets like a ghost with hollowed out eyes.
C#
Kids, see you comin’ they cross the street,
F#
mothers all told 'em not to speak to you
G# C#
and you didn’t recognize your own friends, yeah; when some of them tried.
C#
But when you were 11 and I was 10,
F#
you know, I learned everything that I needed to know then from you
G# C#
and to this day man I’m still tryin’ to be like you in my mind.
[Chorus]
C# F#
What a day, what a time, what a long cold night,
G# C#
you gotta hold, hold steady and rock slow.
C# F#
I’m ’a tell no lies, hey, the 45 king he only plays 45s,
G# C#
and the only coca-cola, boys, is a Mexican coke.
[Outro]
C# C# C# C#
C#
Here come those street lights on, and we’re going home.
C#
Here come those street lights on, and we’re going home.
C#
Here come those street lights on, and we’re going home.
C#
Here come those street lights on, and we’re going home.
C#
Here come those street lights on, and we’re going home.
C#
Here come those street lights on, and we’re going home.
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