I Been Wrecked
D G A G… A….D Or C F G F…G….C
 
Crashed in the morning, been rolled up wet, 
The day is young, just start it over again, 
Trouble can find me, and split the tab, 
Suns comin’ up and we’ll be wavin’ down a cab, 

And in the evening, stroll home again, 
She looks at me and I look at him, 
It’s nothin’ special, just what I do, 
It’s twice as fun when I can do it with you, 

Well I been wrecked, I been knocked down, 
Living like dirt, like I should be underground, 
Well I been wrecked, hit by a train, 
Just pick me up and start it over again, 

Well bloodshot eyeballs, and tangled hair, 
Torn up jeans and week old underwear, 
Got my prescription, to ease my pain, 
Next morning and she’s poured it down the drain, 

Now that’s not funny, I’m goin’ out, 
I know where the door is and you don’t need to shout, 
My friends are all there, just different names, 
Well bloodshot eyeballs and we all look the same, 

Well I been wrecked, I been knocked down, 
Living like dirt, like I should be underground, 
Well I been wrecked, hit by a train, 
Just pick me up and start it over again, 

My tongue is dried out, my knees are weak, 
Got 2 checkers and a roach stuck to my cheek, 
Now hug me honey, I love you so, 
Hey where’d my six pack and my pint of Jim Beam go? 
Now that’s the trouble, with having friends, 
Don’t bring their own and just drink yours up in the end, 
I never minded, till I met you, 
Everytime you show up I’m left with just a few, 

Well I been wrecked, I been knocked down, 
Living like dirt, like I should be underground, 
Well I been wrecked, hit by a train, 
Just pick me up and start it over again,

I Been Wrecked

CRUCIFY ME
Capo at 7th – Am C G
 
Forgive me babe, for what I done, 
Crucify me I’m the guilty one, 
Stabbed in the heart, knife so cold, 
You trusted me, you tried to get hold, 

Some people smoke, some people drink, 
Some people drown until they start to sink, 
Pull me up child, dry me off again, 
Sanctify me I been living in sin, 

Pains from the past, open up again, 
Blind to the thought that I was losing a friend, 
You opened up then I shut right down, 
I shoulda seen you were still stickin’ around, 

A night alone, the past comes back, 
Thoughts of you, they all turn to black, 
Forgive me babe, for what I done, 
Crucify me I’m the guilty one, 

I love you girl, holding on while I can, 
Ride can be hard with the places I been, 
Try to hold on, if I do it again, 
I break your heart and nobody wins…. 

I’ve crashed before, but I’m always alone, 
I took you with me, I shoulda known, 
Forgive me babe, for what I done, 
Crucify me I’m the guilty on

Crucify Me

This Song
Em C G D 
Before the morning light, lay awake and I’m thinking of you, 
Trouble haunts my sleep, and it’s there in the daylight to, 
I need you by my side, I’m alone and the darkness falls in, 
I can’t call just to say, that I miss you and love you my friend, 
INSTRUMENTAL 
Flowers given to you, Are they visions of what we will be? 
An everlasting love, yet a wilted memory. 
I’ve looked inside my heart, and I’ve seen what it all means to me. 
The only love of my life, but whatever’s to be is to be,…DDDD 
C D G C 
Funny how we think it’s alright, sleeping life away, 
Wasting time and chances passing, tomorrow is today, 
C D G Em 
I wonder if we really have that long…. 
C D G………D 
And I wrote it all down in this song
 
And so I write it all down, hope the answer is found in this song, 
I play it over again, find the hope that’s been there all along, 
You are the love of my life, and I know that you feel the same way, 
So in the morning light, together someday we will lay. DDDD 
C D G C 
Funny how we think it’s alright, living life this way, 
Promises of yesterday can, become shades of gray, 
C D G Em 
I found the love that’s been there all along, 
C D G………D 
And I wrote it all down in this song.

This Song

A MESS CALLED ME
D G and A 
It's 2 am and the telephone is ringing, 
You're wondering what some stupid jerk is thinkin', 
You hope it's not that guy that calls all the time, 
You pick up the phone, says "Hi it's me on the line", 
He says "Hello, it's a little old mess called me", 
"Well how you doing this evening, a little old mess called me". 

Sitting at a party trying to have a conversation, 
Don't need no annoyance, don't need no aggravation, 
Who invited this guy keeps sitting down next to me, 
Going on about the show we're trying to watch on TV, 
He says "Hello, it's a little old mess called me", 
"Well you've met me before, a little old mess called me". 

It's a little flaw I got, always put my friends to the test, 
I give ‘em my worst, they keep hopin’ for the best, 
Don’t sit next to me, I ain’t no good luck charm, 
If you see me comin’ you better sound the alarm, 
That’s just the way it is, a little old mess called me, 
I just can’t help myself, a little old mess called me.

A Mess Called Me

Love Lies Dying
Am C G 
Love lies bleeding, on the street 
Love lies dying, at my feet, 
Love was a blanket, but now I am cold, 
Love was a hurricane, uncontrolled,
 
It goes way back, before it begins, 
When we first met, we were just friends, 
You took me home, into your room, 
A dream that I followed a little too soon, 

Casting shadows, and casting doubts, 
A left turn we took, and inside is out, 
A thought that you spoke, made it most clear, 
A shadow has fallen, what am I doing here, 

A heart lies bleeding on the floor, 
A whispered memory, nothing more, 
Thin as paper, and thin as ice, 
Wave goodbye, don't think twice,

Love Lies Dyin

Have You Seen My Baby Dyin’?
Normal - A E D E / F#m D A E 
Capo 2 - G D C D / Em C G D 
Take my hand my friend, for real or to pretend, 
You just keep slipping away, no matter what I say, 
Now you know I can’t be there, I’d follow you anywhere, 
So I asked a man today, why you’d gone away 
Bridge
He told me you couldn’t wait, well for me or for one more day, 
He told me to ask around, and this is what I should say, 
Chorus
Have you seen my baby dyin’? 4x 
 
Looked up the other night, her star was outta site, 
Maybe it was where you were, I tried to fly to her, 
Don’t know which way to go, she’s feeling all alone, 
So I asked a friend I knew, just what I should do, 
Bridge 
He said I should run away, that it’s alright it isn’t a sin. 
I turned around to his face, and this is what I said to him, 
Chorus
It’ll leave my baby dyin’ 4x
 
If I had a looking glass, to see the future not the past, 
There you are smiling again, there you are like you always been, 
Maybe dream of yesterday, maybe it’ll all go away, 
Maybe if you close your eyes, forget the past and all the lies, 
Bridge
The lies that your father told, repeated ‘til you think they’re true, 
Well now she keeps it inside, it doesn’t matter what I do, 
Chorus 
I can’t keep her from dyin’ 
Have you seen my baby cryin’? 
She’s tired from all the lyin, 
Have you seen my baby dyin’?

Have You Seen My Baby Dying

GIVE AWAY
E A B 
Well I cried, wishing that things could be better, 
I wrote it all down in a letter, 
That I crumbled and threw in a basket, 
Cause it could never be what I asked it, 
And then I wished it away, hey hey, 

And it’s hard (so hard), living in another ones shadow, 
Trying to be the one that must follow, 
And I can never be what you want me to…… 
A B E A 
Sometimes it’s hard to tell if I’m, the one you want me to be, 
A B 
Sometimes I tell myself that, 
A B 
It don’t matter if I do it right, 
It won’t matter sitting up all night, 
If I could show all that I can be, 
Maybe I’d finally get your sympathy, well, now, now…. 
E 
Now I am, 
 A B 
myself and my own, it’s my problem, 
I talk and I speak to the answer, 
Never to walk away silent, 
And then I give it away, hey, hey…… 

Sometimes it’s hard, to take it all in at the moment, 
Carry it out, try to shoulder, 
The weight of a hundred years sorrows, 
Looking for some time you can borrow, 
And then you give it away, hey, hey…….

Give Away

All You Could
Capo 4 in E 
C G Am F 
She lays down, upon my bed, 
Rest there darling, think of what you’ve said, 
Time to let go of, today and pain in the past, 
I’ll hold you my Angel, until the trouble has passed,
 
If I had found you, a long time ago, 
Would it be much different, if we had time to grow, 
Cherished moments and seconds, that I spend with you, 
Then we must part my dear, what do I go home to? 
CHORUS 
What did I do now, and where’d I go wrong, 
Days are much harder, and nights are so long, 
Bridges to nowhere, you never get there, 
And no one is waiting, at the top of my stair, 
BRIDGE 
Am G F Am 
Can you live without me, after what we’ve been through, 
Am G F Am G 
I know I can’t live without you, know what I’ll go back to, 

C G Am F 
Nothing comes easy, when you’re torn in two, 
Love shared, divided, a love that is through, 
Sometimes a sickness, takes you from inside, 
They can’t tell just by looking, but you know you have died, 
CHORUS 
So lay down my darling, this shouldn’t be about me, 
A selfish heart can hide, a soul and then lose the key, 
All that you are my love, and what a dear friend can be, 
All that you could, your heart, is what you’ve given to me,

All You Could

Love and Pain

A G D A 
Alcohol or crack cocaine, its all about the same, 
When it crashes down you find, they will only cause you pain. 
Yet you drink it down quickly, and inhale just one more, 
And you come back to me bleeding, broken hearted at my door. 

You say I'm just like they are, a thing you cannot break, 
I lie here crying on the floor, not much more that I can take. 
And you mention an addiction, like I'm a needle in your vein, 
All I wanted was your heart babe, and not to cause you any pain. 

Shadows dance along the walls, and they take me back to you, 
Waiting for the next big fall, you'll need me to hold on to. 
Months and years will push me through, the tangled web you made, 
Leave me standing old, alone, and staring at your grave. 
Reprise 
Bm D A 
I can try and make it better, but you surely will not see, 
You never needed them babe, you only needed me……… 

Shadows dance along my walls, and I'm taken back to you, 
Finally had our last big fall, nothing more to hold on to. 
I get lost deep in the memories, and all that we went through, 
And slip back to an addiction, that keeps me loving you.

Love and Pain

I Met A Lady
Capo 4 in E – E straight harp 
Intro - Em C Em C G Am F G 

C G Am F 
The drunken tailor mends another suit, 
He keeps her picture in the drawer, 
His hands are shaking and his shirt is torn, 
And he never locks the door, 
The tired owner of the local bar, 
Is hanging on just by a thread, 
He met a lady who made love to him, 
She chose to drink alone instead, 
G                                   Am 
Mike he takes another customer, 
F                                           C 
Nods his head, tries not to frown, 
G                                                          Am 
He knows they know and they know he knows too, 
F                                                    G 
His love she met the whole damn town, 
CHORUS 
C G Am F 
I met a lady who made love to me, 
I met a lady that was kind, 
I met a lady saved my life and then,
I met a lady, lost my mind,
 
A shallow banker with a lonely heart, 
Thinks that he finally found the one, 
He picked her up down at the corner bar, 
She asks for money when he’s done, 
His son he runs the local Laundromat, 
He beats his wife and beats his son, 
She never ever thinks of leaving him, 
Until she reaches for the gun,
 
The police man he never saw such a scene, 
She looks at him from his car, 
They write each other while she’s doing time, 
He knows he never got this far,
 
I met a lady who made love to me, 
I met a lady I was blind, 
I met a lady with no guarantee,
I met a lady, lost my mind, 

The barber shaves another customer, 
The razors sharp, knows his job well, 
Before he cuts his wrists he writes to her, 
Tells her he loves her, says farewell, 
His former wife and now his former love, 
She feels bad but not alone, 
Left him for Susie, and left her for Jane, 
She would have called if she had known,
 
Alone Sweet Susie sits at home and reads, 
She feels the calm before the storm, 
Silence that deafens like a hurricane, 
She’s found, her body is still warm,
 
I met a lady who made love to me, 
I met a lady, now I find, 
I met a lady thought she held the key,
I met a lady, lost my mind,
 
Once wore a coat of armor made for me, 
I wore it well, no one could tell, 
I shed it when she opened up to me, 
It wasn’t long before I fell, 
For now I’ve seen what has become of me, 
Shattered and wasted, left so cold, 
The tears I shed, my tears are made of ice, 
My heart, my body turned to stone,
 
Castrated and I kneel on broken glass, 
The passers by know what I’ve done, 
I wear a crown it’s made of thorns and lead, 
I wear a tattoo for no one, 

I met a lady who made love to me, 
I met a lady that don’t remind, 
I met a lady but it isn’t her,
I met a lady, lost my mind

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