The Great Unknown

C Fmaj9 x 3 C# F#maj9 C# F#maj9 It’s Friday night and I’m back again C# A#m G#add9 F#maj7 With my old guitar and my trusty grin G#add9 A#m And a best you don’t come in here sign F#maj7 G#add9 C# F#maj9 C# F#maj9 Tattooed on this heart of mine C# F#maj9 C# F#maj9 From a dirty brown shag carpet stage C# A#m G#add9 F#maj7 I sing my songs and I pace the cage G#add9 A#m Stuck up here in the twilight zone F#maj7 G#add9 C# F#maj9 C# F#maj9 Staring out into the great unknown C# F#maj9 C# There’s an old Hank Williams figurine A#m G#add9 F# Hanging by a guitar string G#add9 A#m From the pull chain of the Pabst Blue Ribbon sign F#maj7 G#add9 C# F#maj9 With a clock that’s stopped on half past nine C# F#maj9 C# Yeah the time ain’t changed round here in years A#m G#add9 F# Same sad story, same old tears G#add9 A#m Ain’t nobody wants to be alone F#maj7 G#add9 C# F#maj9 C# F#maj9 Out here in the great unknown C# F#maj9 C# F#maj9 You can find the stool there at the bar C# A#m G#add9 F#maj7 Designed to take you nowhere far G#add9 A#m They got a mirror back behind the whiskey shelf F#maj7 G#add9 C# F#maj9 Where we don’t dare look back at ourselves C# F#maj9 C# F#maj9 Just past the men’s room down the hall C# A#m G#add9 F#maj7 Barely hanging there on a plaster wall G#add9 A#m A faded sticker on the old payphone F#maj7 G#add9 C# F#maj9 C# F#maj9 Says welcome to the great unknown C# F#maj9 C# F#maj9 It’s out beyond the yonder star C# A#m G#add9 F#maj7 It’s all up in there where you are G#add9 A#m By some cosmic wind we’re blown F#maj7 G#add9 C# F#maj9 C# F#maj9 Out into the great unknown C# F#maj9 C# F#maj9 Hopes and dreams and ash and dust C# A#m G#add9 F#maj7 It all seems to either rot or rust G#add9 A#m Souls wrapped in in flesh and bone F#maj7 G#add9 C# F#maj9 Heartbeats in the great unknown C# F#maj9 C# It’s Friday night and I’m back again