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]
Am
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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