G#2 x2
C# D# C# C7
I heard the truth about you
C# D#
And it doesn't really read at all
Fm G#
Like the whipping stick you raised me with
C# D#
A# scared woman in a private hell
C# C7
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
Cb G#
And the long lame walk of the dark seventies
C# D# C# C7
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
C7 Fm
Heard big words with horrible sound
C# D#
Why'd they have to call my school
Cb G#2
Tell me my mother had a nervous breakdown
G#2
C# D# C# C7
I wish I believed like you do, yeah you
C# D#
In the myth of a merciful God
Fm G#
In the myth of a heaven and hell
C# D# C#
I hear the voices you hear sometimes
C7
sometimes
C# D#
It gets so much
C# G#
I feel like letting go
C# D#
Sometimes it gets so hard
C7 Fm
I feel like letting it go
C# D# Cb G#
Sometimes it gets so goddamn hard I feel like letting it all go
Cb5 D#5
Letting it all go
G#5 F#5
Letting it all go
Cb5 D#5
Letting it all go
G#5 F#5
Letting it all go
Cb5 D#5
Yeah, letting it all go
G#2 x2
C# D#
I ran away and went looking for you
C7 Fm
Back to Culver City and the old neighborhood
C# D#
Needed to know if you were really gone
C7 Fm
Needed to know if you were gone for good
C# D#
I ran through the projects at night
C7 Fm
Hide in the dark from my friends in the light
C# D#
Hide from my brother-in-law
C7 Fm
Hide from the things he'd say
C# D#
Said you weren't losing your mind
C7 Fm
Yeah, said you just needed a rest
C# D#
He said you would be coming home soon
C7 Fm
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
C7 Fm
I know the truth
C#
I know the truth
D#
I know the truth
C7
I know the truth
Fm
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
C7 Fm
I feel like letting it go
C# D#
Sometimes it gets so hard
Cb G#
I feel like letting it all go
G#
Yeah, letting it all go
G# G#2
Letting it all go
G#2
Ooh, letting it all go
G#
Yeah letting it all go
| x Dead note
| b Bend
| h Hammer-on