The Distance

A C# D 2x A C#m D Bloodstains on faded pictures A And it comes in waves C#m D As the shouts turn into whispers A Thoughts keep running through her brain C#m D Make the pounding in her heart beat quicker A Says it all comes down to the run-around C#m D And as a book slips in her fingers A C#m D Says I don’t really think the drugs they've got can pull it off A C#m D So I’m gonna sell my blood to a man I met in Simon’s Rock A C#m D He’s got a plan to put me in a diamond top A C#m D And make a grand playin' geriatric glam nostalgia rock A Shaken to the core Breaks in the door C#m D Makes out twenty-five laying on the floor A All praying to the Lord But the praying’s ignored C#m D Saying that they should’ve been praying before And he won’t A C#m And woke that night to the rains of nuclear war and D A C#m D And she said oh my soul’s gotten cold and lost A And I’m throwing it out A Oh, won’t you go C#m D Make the most of a bad existence A C#m D ‘Cause you’re so much older than she ever planned to live with A And she says: Everybody knows the difference C#m D Between right to try and a life of lies A C#m D And if you go the distance, go the distance A I’ll fall behind A C#m D Eighteen with a s*x addiction A C#m D And he states his dreams in written online erotica fiction A Accounts of places he ain’t been C#m D About relationships and vision A C#m Types: Tomorrow night’s been a long time coming D If they’d have only listened A Shaking in the night, wakes and he writes C#m D Twenty-five ways you can waste your life A Says he takes what he likes Breaks with the light C#m D Makes for Boston with his fate decided A C#m Says he prays that every thought’s been pre-assigned to him D ‘Cause it’s blinding to know A C#m D Oh my soul’s gotten cold and lost A And I’m throwing it out A Oh, won’t you go C#m D Make the most of a bad existence A C#m D ‘Cause you’re so much older than she ever planned to live with A And she says: Everybody knows the difference C#m D Between right to try and a life of lies A C#m D And if you go the distance, go the distance A C#m D I’ll fall behind A I'll fall behind