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