Intro
| F# C#/F | Bmaj7 | F# C#/F | Bmaj7 |
| F# C#/F | Bmaj7 | F# C#/F | Bmaj7 |
[Verse 1]
F# C#/F Bmaj7
Just a minute before you leave, girl
F# C#/F Bmaj7
Just a minute before you touch the door
F# C#/F Bmaj7
What is it that you're trying to achieve, girl?
F# C#/F Bmaj7
Do you think we can talk about it some more?
[Bridge 1]
G#m
You know, the streets are filled with vipers
G#m
Who've lost all ray of hope
F#/C#
You know, it ain't even safe no more
C#
In the palace of the Pope
[Chorus]
F# C#/F Bmaj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
F# C#/F Bmaj7
I just don't think that I could handle it
F# C#/F Bmaj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
G#m A#m
Yesterday's just a memory
B F#/C#
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
| B/C# | B/C# C# |
And I need you, yeah
[Verse 2]
F# C#/F Bmaj7
Come over here from over there, girl
F# C#/F Bmaj7
Sit down here. You can have my chair
F# C#/F Bmaj7
I can't see us goin' anywhere, girl
F# C#/F Bmaj7
The only place open is a thousand miles away and I can't take you there
[Bridge 2]
G#m
I wish I'd have been a doctor
G#m
Maybe I'd have saved some life that had been lost
F#/C#
Maybe I'd have done some good in the world
C#
'Stead of burning every bridge I crossed
[Chorus]
F# C#/F Bmaj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
F# C#/F Bmaj7
I just don't think that I could handle it
F# C#/F Bmaj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
G#m A#m
Yesterday's just a memory
B F#/C#
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
| B/C# | B/C# C# |
And I need you, yeah
[Verse 3]
F# C#/F Bmaj7
I ain't too good at conversation, girl
F# C#/F Bmaj7
So, you might not know exactly how I feel
F# C#/F Bmaj7
But if I could, I'd bring you to the mountaintop, girl
F# C#/F Bmaj7
And build you a house made out of stainless steel
[Bridge 3]
G#m
But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting
G#m
That's a-hanging in the Louvre
F#/C#
My throat start to tickle and my nose itches
C#
But I know that I can't move
[Chorus]
F# C#/F Bmaj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
F# C#/F Bmaj7
I just don't think that I could handle it
F# C#/F Bmaj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
G#m A#m
Yesterday's gone but the past lives on
B F#/C#
Tomorrow's just one step beyond
| B/C# | B/C# C# |
And I need you, oh
[Middle 8]
Fb Bmaj7
Who are these people who are walking towards you?
B F#
Do you know them or will there be a fight?
Fb Bmaj7
With their humorless smiles so easy to see through
B F#
Can they tell you what's wrong from what's right?
B F#
Or do you remember St. James Street
B F#
Where you blew Jackie P.'s mind?
B F#
You were so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet
Fb B | B/C# | C# |
And laid his life on the line
[Solo]
| F# C#/F | Fadd9 | F# C#/F | Fadd9 |
[Verse 4]
F# C#/F Bmaj7
Let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl
F# C#/F Bmaj7
No more booby traps and bombs, No more decadence and charm
F# C#/F Bmaj7
No more affection that's misplaced, girl,
F# C#/F Bmaj7
No more mudcake creatures lying in your arms
[Bridge 4]
G#m
What about that millionaire
G#m
With the drumsticks in his pants?
F#/C#
He looked so baffled and so bewildered
C#
When he played and we didn't dance
[Chorus]
F# C#/F Bmaj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
F# C#/F Bmaj7
I just don't think that I could handle it
F# C#/F Bmaj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
G#m A#m
Yesterday's just a memory
B F#/C#
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
| B/C# | B/C# C# |
And I need you, yeah, oh, I need you ...
[Outro]
| F# C#/F | Bmaj7 | F# C#/F | Bmaj7 |