Verse
[Verse 1]
D
Go and get your drugs, honey
A D
Go and get your drugs
D
I am fond of those things too
A D
Some of them so much
D
Give away my whole life to 'em
A D
Give away my bed
D
Come about on some strange couch
A D
Just wishing that I were dead
D
Ashley hitched from Houston
A D
She was raped in Abilene
D
Beaten with a bottle
A D
As the night laid mute her screams
D
When she finally reached here
A D
She was happy as can be
D
There's a bright light shining in the big blue sky
A D
And I never know what it means
[Chorus]
Bm F#m G D
And I can't help singing dirges on the ides of every month
Bm F#m
Heaven is a chandelier
G D
But don't all look up at once
[Verse 2]
D A D
I go down to the park to give away my cigarettes
D A D
I go down to the park where I sit and wait for death
D A D
But I can't wait forever with the breezes and the bums
D A D
The soldiers came to shoot us down but Jesus jammed the guns
D A D
And when the bottles all were empty, when he called us to our feet
D A D
He promised us salvation and some real nice things to eat
D A D
We were good then 'til the morning when the daylight did us in
D A D
Oh the past it picked our pretty little pockets, it gets thirsty for revenge
[Chorus]
Bm F#m G D
And I can't help singing dirges on the ides of every month
Bm F#m G D
Heaven is a chandelier, but don't all look up at once
Bm F#m G D
Oh I can't help singing dirges on the ides of every month
Bm F#m G D
Heaven is a chandelier, but don't all look up at once