G2 x2
C D C B7
I heard the truth about you
C D
And it doesn't really read at all
Em G
Like the whipping stick you raised me with
C D
A scared woman in a private hell
C B7
Hushed voice like electric bells
C D
Strange talk about Edgar Cayce
C G
And the long lame walk of the dark seventies
C D
Strange talk about Edgar Cayce
A# G
And the long lame walk of the dark seventies
C D C B7
I heard the truth about you, yeah you
C D
Mama, they woke me up
C G
I was deep in an idiot sleep
C D
I was just eight years old
B7 Em
Heard big words with horrible sound
C D
Why'd they have to call my school
A# G2
Tell me my mother had a nervous breakdown
G2
C D C B7
I wish I believed like you do, yeah you
C D
In the myth of a merciful God
Em G
In the myth of a heaven and hell
C D C
I hear the voices you hear sometimes
B7
sometimes
C D
It gets so much
C G
I feel like letting go
C D
Sometimes it gets so hard
B7 Em
I feel like letting it go
C D A# G
Sometimes it gets so goddamn hard I feel like letting it all go
A#5 D5
Letting it all go
G5 F5
Letting it all go
A#5 D5
Letting it all go
G5 F5
Letting it all go
A#5 D5
Yeah, letting it all go
G2 x2
C D
I ran away and went looking for you
B7 Em
Back to Culver City and the old neighborhood
C D
Needed to know if you were really gone
B7 Em
Needed to know if you were gone for good
C D
I ran through the projects at night
B7 Em
Hide in the dark from my friends in the light
C D
Hide from my brother-in-law
B7 Em
Hide from the things he'd say
C D
Said you weren't losing your mind
B7 Em
Yeah, said you just needed a rest
C D
He said you would be coming home soon
B7 Em
He said the doctors there would know what's best
C D C
Said that maybe I could go live with them for a while
N.C
I know the truth about you
N.C
I know the truth about you
C D
I know the truth about you
B7 Em
I know the truth
C
I know the truth
D
I know the truth
B7
I know the truth
Em
I know the truth about you
C
Mama, they woke me up
G
I was just eight years old
C D
Sometimes it gets so hard
B7 Em
I feel like letting it go
C D
Sometimes it gets so hard
A# G
I feel like letting it all go
G
Yeah, letting it all go
G G2
Letting it all go
G2
Ooh, letting it all go
G
Yeah letting it all go
| x Dead note
| b Bend
| h Hammer-on