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