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