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