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