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