Stay Loose

Cm                   Bb
I was choking on a cornflake
          Gm                 Ab
You said "Have some toast instead”
Cm                     Bb
I was sleeping maybe three hours
          Gm                 Ab
You said "You should get to bed”
Cm                     Bb
I was waiting at the church door\
        Gm            Ab
For the minister to show
Cm                    Bb
I was looking at the new year
          Gm                Ab Gm Fm
You said "Walk before you crawl”

Cm                   Bb
I was feeling like a loser
          Gm                    Ab
You said "Hey, you’ve still got me”
Cm                    Bb
I was feeling pretty lonely
              Gm             Ab
You said "You wanted to be free”
Cm                   Bb
I was looking for a good time
           Gm                 Ab
You said "Let the good times start”
Cm                      Bb
With a quiver of your eyelid
             Gm            Ab
You took on someone else’s part

               Eb
But what about me
Ab              Eb
I don’t really see
Ab              Eb
How things will improve
            Ab
If all you want is to stay

Cm                  Bb
Maybe I’m a little greedy
          Gm                 Ab
You said "Think before you speak”
Cm                     Bb
Sometimes I’m a little seedy
           Gm           Ab
You said "Everyone is weak”
Cm                    Bb
Now I feel a little better
          Gm              Ab
Is there something I can do?
Cm                     Bb
But I never heard the answer
   Gm          Ab
I never had a clue

               Eb
But what about me
Ab              Eb
I don’t really see
Ab               Eb
How things will improve
             Ab
If all you want is to stay
     Fm
The lights are out
        Gm
In the house tonight
        Ab
And I creep around
         Eb               Bb
And I’m creeping to your head
          Ab              Cm
All you wanted to stay loose.

Cm                     Bb
There’s a little echo calling
        Gm             Ab
Like a miner trapped inside
Cm                     Bb
If I tell her of this moment
           Gm             Ab
She will in me doubts confide
Cm                       Bb
And she’s on me like a blanket
        Gm                Ab
Like a stalk of wilting grass
Cm                        Bb
I’m not sure about her motives
         Gm              Ab Gm Fm
I’m not sure about her past

Cm                      Bb
But my faith is like a bullet
      Gm             Ab
My belief is like a bolt
Cm                       Bb
The only thing that lets me sleep at night
            Gm            Ab
A little carriage of the soul
Cm                      Bb
If it starts a little bleaker
          Gm              Ab
Then the year may yet be gold
Cm                     Bb
Happiness is not for keeping
    Gm               Ab
Happiness is not my goal

               Eb
So what about me
Ab               Eb
I don’t really see
Ab                Eb
How things will improve
           Ab                Eb
If all you want is to stay loose

Ab               Eb
But what about them
Ab               Eb
You play mother hen
      Ab                   Eb
To a gaggle of gangling youth
            Ab
If all you want is to stay
     Fm
The lights are out
        Gm
In the house tonight
       Ab
And I creep around
          Eb              Bb
And I’m creeping to your head
          Ab
All you wanted to stay

Cm                          Gm
I was living through the second
    Ab              Eb
My composure was a mess
       Fm             Cm
I was miles from tenderness
        Ab                Ab         Gm        Bb
It was dark outside, the day it was lying in pieces

Cm                     Gm
Everything is flat and dreary
            Ab                  Eb
I couldn’t care what’s in the news
     Fm            Cm
Television is the blues
    Ab           Ab        Gm           Bb
Television is hysterical laughter of people

       Ab              Bb
And I know it could be me
                      Cm    Bb     Ab    Gm
I’m always asking for more, more, more, more

         Ab                Eb
I keep running round in circles
         Ab            Eb
I keep looking for a doorway
              Ab
I’m going to need two lives
     Ab         Gm              Bb
To follow the paths I’ve been taking