Intro
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[Verse 1]
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Just a minute before you leave, girl
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Just a minute before you touch the door
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What is it that you're trying to achieve, girl?
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Do you think we can talk about it some more?
[Bridge 1]
A#m
You know, the streets are filled with vipers
A#m
Who've lost all ray of hope
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You know, it ain't even safe no more
D#
In the palace of the Pope
[Chorus]
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Don't fall apart on me tonight
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I just don't think that I could handle it
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Don't fall apart on me tonight
A#m Cm
Yesterday's just a memory
C# G#/D#
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
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And I need you, yeah
[Verse 2]
G# D#/G C#maj7
Come over here from over there, girl
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Sit down here. You can have my chair
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I can't see us goin' anywhere, girl
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The only place open is a thousand miles away and I can't take you there
[Bridge 2]
A#m
I wish I'd have been a doctor
A#m
Maybe I'd have saved some life that had been lost
G#/D#
Maybe I'd have done some good in the world
D#
'Stead of burning every bridge I crossed
[Chorus]
G# D#/G C#maj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
G# D#/G C#maj7
I just don't think that I could handle it
G# D#/G C#maj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
A#m Cm
Yesterday's just a memory
C# G#/D#
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
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And I need you, yeah
[Verse 3]
G# D#/G C#maj7
I ain't too good at conversation, girl
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So, you might not know exactly how I feel
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But if I could, I'd bring you to the mountaintop, girl
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And build you a house made out of stainless steel
[Bridge 3]
A#m
But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting
A#m
That's a-hanging in the Louvre
G#/D#
My throat start to tickle and my nose itches
D#
But I know that I can't move
[Chorus]
G# D#/G C#maj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
G# D#/G C#maj7
I just don't think that I could handle it
G# D#/G C#maj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
A#m Cm
Yesterday's gone but the past lives on
C# G#/D#
Tomorrow's just one step beyond
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And I need you, oh
[Middle 8]
Gb C#maj7
Who are these people who are walking towards you?
C# G#
Do you know them or will there be a fight?
Gb C#maj7
With their humorless smiles so easy to see through
C# G#
Can they tell you what's wrong from what's right?
C# G#
Or do you remember St. James Street
C# G#
Where you blew Jackie P.'s mind?
C# G#
You were so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet
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And laid his life on the line
[Solo]
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[Verse 4]
G# D#/G C#maj7
Let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl
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No more booby traps and bombs, No more decadence and charm
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No more affection that's misplaced, girl,
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No more mudcake creatures lying in your arms
[Bridge 4]
A#m
What about that millionaire
A#m
With the drumsticks in his pants?
G#/D#
He looked so baffled and so bewildered
D#
When he played and we didn't dance
[Chorus]
G# D#/G C#maj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
G# D#/G C#maj7
I just don't think that I could handle it
G# D#/G C#maj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
A#m Cm
Yesterday's just a memory
C# G#/D#
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
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And I need you, yeah, oh, I need you ...
[Outro]
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