MEEKEN YOURSELF  

3/4

G         D7       G
The sound of this old leaky faucet
C                   G
Is nagging me like a pretty
    C                                           G
women who thinks she can live off her looks
               D7                  G
with a wretched personality
 
   G       D7       G
Tell me what's gonna happen in 10 years
     C                 G
or 20 or 30 or more
    C                              G
When your beauty has left you abandoned 
              D7                      G
and your bosom has fell to the floor
 
            C                                   G
When your face looks like a map of Kentucky
             C                               G
and your voice sounds like a dinosaur
             C                                  G
and the children all run from you screaming
          D7                                 G
and the mirror is something your abhor

AHAHAHAHA
     
    G      D7       G
Well you take everything now for granted but the
     C                         G
Lord giveth and taketh away
     C                                G
so will you get right with God now and meeken yourself
      D7                            G
or  just wait until it's too late


Meeken Yourself (take 1)

The World I'm Living In

D                                              A7                    D
My house was built upon a landfill yesteryear
I wake up to the screaming of marketeers

G                                D
Where you going? Where you been?
D                                                                               A7         D
I'll bet you couldn't survive the world that I'm  living in

Ain't got no vehicle, ain't got no wheels to spin
The skin of my poor feet is torn and blistering

Where you going? Where you been?
I'll bet you couldn't survive the world that I'm living in

I fetch my water down the street with a blue pail
my showers colder than a spraying arctic whale

Where you going? Where you been?
I'll bet you couldn't survive the world that I'm living in


The World I'm Living In (take 1)

2/2 Heroic Songs

(G) Well this body has left me (D) empty
It has drained my spirit (G) dry
Now I've lost my sparkling (C) vision
My eyes were (D) meant to see and not to (G) cry (G7)

This (C) sickness made me feel so (G) violated
but I won't let it keep me down for (D) long
I will (G) jump back upon my (C) saddle
My voice was (D) meant to sing heroic (G) songs  

Well, this woman has left me wistful 
Now I  feel like I don't belong
to the perky and sunny future
that I anticipated for us us all along

Jealousy and envy's left me jaded
but I won't be held back for too long
I will jump back upon my saddle
cuz My voice was meant to sing heroic songs


Heroic Songs (take 1)

Into The Bathroom
3/4

A                    D             A
She stepped into the bathroom
D                         A
a woman of years 33
D                         A
she took out a stick and then peed upon it
E7                       A
hoping to find pregnancy 

E                                            A
Her parents had begged her for so many years
E                                           A
and now they still wait patiently
E                                            A
She told them she wanted to build a career
D                              A
before she made a family

She sits alone in the bathroom
waiting to see the good news
for ten months she's tried with tears in her eyes
and a heart like a bursted balloon

Why didn't keep her baby at fifteen
she thought that she had so much time
The teachers all said it would ruin her life
So she did what they told her was right

She walks out of the bathroom
reflecting back upon her life
her womb is still empty, although not accidentally 
her baby would be 18 tonight
yeah baby would be 18 tonight



Into The Bathroom (take 1)

Brand New Start

G                                                        C
I remember you said that I would never recover

that I would die in the condition I was in
And even though I was weak
I had a positivity that you were talking out your behind

So I rode and I rode till I found someplace to go
and I thanked God for my broken heart and this brand new start

I remember the day when you took all my money
and claimed it all for your very own
But I didn't wanna fight
so I took off into the night and to see what else I could find

And I rode and I rode till I found someplace to go
and I thanked God for my broken heart and this brand new start

I remember I tried with everything I could muster
with every neuron bouncing round in my brain
I would never give up on us
never walk away until I heard you clearly say "Get out"

And I rode and I rode till I found someplace to go
and I thanked God for my broken heart and this brand new start
And I know and I know upon me he's has bestowed
A concrete will you'll never know so it's you I'm praying for

Brand New Start (take 1)

A Case of the Shoulda's Part 1

C                       F                       G7
I should have asked you to dance
took you by your pretty little hands
and we'd run off in the sunset with our pockets full of hope
to a place where no one cares about an opera made of soap

I should have told you everything
Letting all the chips fall where they may
and I am not a gambling man but I would bet on you
to follow me to victory with all the strength you knew

I should have asked you to dance
and taken bigger risks with our romance
we'd be living better than we ever could have dreamed  

A Case of the Shoulda's Part 1 (take 1)

Tale of the Bloated Goat


D                                   G
I took a look in the mirror just 10 years ago
A7                                 D
that's when I decided my cut up my nose
The doctor was friendly when I wrote him a check
So I went under the knife and I never looked back

I chopped off my boobies cuz they made me look fat
but when my husband freaked out I tried putting them back
the plastic however never did feel the same
so he left me for a more natural dame

Well, the anger I felt made my hair all turn gray
so I started to dye it every other Monday
but soon it was fried, it was frizzled and frayed
and a wig was the price that I paid

All the drinking on weekends had wrinkled my eyes
I had flab on my belly and cellulite thighs
I went back to the doctor get a face lift
and narrow the shape of my hips

Now I don't look quite human, but it don't bother me
I'm a famous actress who's won 13 Emmy's
Remember that series back from the 80s?
I'll bet you wouldn't recognize me

All the teenage women still look up to me
They admire my life and my celebrity
They want fame and money and they want it for free
and of course some plastic surgery

They stare in the mirror and wanna fix what ain't broke
They don't seem to realize that my life is a joke
Looking like an anorexic and bloated goat
and drugging myself just to cope

Tale of the Bloated Goat (take 1)

Envy

Am                                     F
Envy is knocking at my door
Em                              G7
but I won't let her in
cause I ain't keeping score
can't stand competition 
when everyone's a whore
and they just can't ignore
Satan's little grocery store

Am                   Em
Don't blame Amber 
the little timbre 
of her voice when she's singing for you
Don't try and scam her
or reprimand her
only a gambler would take it that far
when you feel the heat
what's she cooking?


Napoleon Watts