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]
Dm Am A# F
And I can't help singing dirges on the ides of every month
Dm Am
Heaven is a chandelier
A# 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]
Dm Am A# F
And I can't help singing dirges on the ides of every month
Dm Am A# F
Heaven is a chandelier, but don't all look up at once
Dm Am A# F
Oh I can't help singing dirges on the ides of every month
Dm Am A# F
Heaven is a chandelier, but don't all look up at once