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