A#
Lord
F
Show me a sign
A#
That you’re still there
D#
That you still care
A#
That you’re still with me
F
That you still know me
D# F
Before I resign
A#
Show me a sign
A#
I can’t laugh
Gm
I can’t weep
A#
Five nights in a row now
F
Not a second of sleep
D#
Is there something
Gm
You want me to know
D# F
Well I wish you’d tell me what
A#
Give me some kind of show
A#
How ‘bout a meteor
Gm
Or a shooting star
A#
Or even a drunk
F
Getting thrown out of the bar
D#
I’m getting impatient
Gm
And hope is expensive
D#
And I’m running low on
F A#
Everything these days
A#
The waters are rising
Gm
And the world is on fire
A#
We’re all just gasoline
F
For the funeral pyre
D#
In the palaces morons
Gm
In the hospitals ghouls
D# F
Murderers in the towns
A#
Rats in the schools
A#
Armies of zombies
Gm
And the generals fishing
A#
And baby Jesus
F
On a suicide mission
D#
And little Mohammed
Gm
Lifeless and brown
D# F
And drowning faceless scarecrows
A#
Wearing the crown
A#
Ten thousand whistlers
Gm
Off-track and off-tune
A#
Sixteen drummers
F
Wearing some kind of rune
D#
Some kind of amulet
Gm
Some pre-Christian cross
D# F
And one man’s lucky roll
A#
Is another man’s loss
A#
Lord, you should have been there
Gm
Last Saturday night
A#
I broke a couple barstools
F
And I broke up a fight
D#
I broke three fingers
Gm
They looked kind of Egyptian
D# F
And the doctor wouldn’t see me
A#
Without a prescription
A#
If this is how
Gm
It’s all gonna go
A#
I might as well pile up
F
Frequent flier miles and lay low
D#
I might as well buy up
Gm
Some spiritual trinkets
D# F
Line the walls with paint
A#
And start to drink it
A#
It’s hard to believe
Gm
It’s goin’ down so fast
A#
When Einstein died
F
He thought you built it to last
D#
But they threw him in a hole
Gm
And they stole his brain
D#
And three days later
F A#
It washed up again in the rain
A#
Lord, I’ll make you a bargain
Gm
I’ll cut you a deal
A#
They can cut off my eyelids
F
And I won’t squeal
D#
I won’t spill your secrets
Gm
My soul’s locked tight
D#
Just please let me
F A#
Get a little sleep tonight
A#
Fifty thousand horses
Gm
Ten thousand sheep
A#
I’d trade ‘em all
F
For just a second of sleep
D#
The kind with dreams though
Gm
You gotta have dreams
D# F
I’ve heard about what happens
A#
At the other extreme
A#
Yeah without them dreams
Gm
You go insane
A#
It’s like having mayonnaise
F
Shot into your brain
D#
But maybe I’m the exception
Gm
Every dog has its day
D# F
Maybe I’m a brand new species
A#
What do you say
A# Gm A# F D# Gm D# F A#
A#
So look out the window
Gm
Might be something out there
A#
Maybe something to read
F
Here’s a Vanity Fair
D#
Winter is coming
Gm
That’s a relief
D# F
And I’m willing to go on faith
A#
But I’m past belief
A# Gm A# F D# Gm D# F A#
(lyrics: Dan Bern)