The Common Touch

A# A# A#sus4 A# A# A# A#sus4 A# D# D# D#add9 D# A# A# Every night I'm lying here, the world crashing through my ears, D# A# I always hear the same damn thing: "You can't live you're life hanging on a string". Gm F D# He's always saying, "Stop complaining, you really can't ever expect too much, F F Boy, you were born with the common touch". A# A# And we fall and fall and fall and fall with our heads soaked up in alcohol, D# A# one hand on a cigarette, I swear I still got some good moves left. Gm F I've been fifty-eight since I was twenty-three, I got sixty-nine problems but one ain't me F D# F F and seriously I don't give a f**k if my answer isn't good enough. A# A# Hey, there, tell me man, what's the answer to this riddle then? D# A# Is it heroin? Or Jesus Christ? Big-ass books? Or sleepless nights? Gm F F I had a few of those and everyone knows that the common touch ain't worth the price. A# A# As we fall and fall and fall and fall with our heads soaked up in alcohol, D# A# two hands on our Juliette, I swear I still got some good moves left. And if you Gm F F promise that you'll stay with me I swear that I will always see the best of you and me. A# A# A#sus4 A# A# A# A#sus4 A# D# D# D#add9 D# A# A# Hey, now tell me this: how these days and nights can coexist D# A# a million pieces in my mind, every damn thing at the exact damn time. Gm F D# It always seems like the same damn dream, my legs don't work and I can't sing, F F I swear I don't feel a god damn thing ... A# A# As we fall and fall and fall and fall with our heads fucked up on alcohol, D# A# two hands on my Juliette, I swear, baby girl, I'm not done yet and if you Gm F F promise that you'll stay with me I swear that I will always see the best of you and me A# A# A#sus4 A# A# A# A#sus4 A# D# D# D#add9 D# Gm F D#-5 D# D#-5 D# Gm F D# D# And when I wake up I wonder where everyone's gone. Gm F D# D# And I just can't sleep so I lay there until the dawn. Gm F D# D# And I wonder if God knows anything, does God know what's going on? A# A# 'Cause I can't be alone just yet and you're the only good thing that I got left, D# A# I know I got these problems still but I swear it's real and I swear I will. Gm F F Maybe we can't ever expect too much but we can live here with the common touch. A# A# And we'll all fall and fall and fall and fall, get all fucked up on alcohol, D# A# we're going to have a good time yet, some got more, but some got less. And if you Gm F F promise that you'll stay with me I swear that I will always be; something you can be - lieve! A# A# D# D# A# A# D# D# Gm F D# D# Gm F D# D# A# A# Yeah, they say that Jesus saves but I couldn't write that on his grave, D# A# so I snuck his ashes through the gate and I threw them on the outside lane Gm F where we watched the horses going by, hoping to keep the pick-four alive. D# F F I was ten years old, he was forty-five, number nine came through and we high-fived. D# F F I know it don't amount to much but that's called love with the common touch. A# A# I lost my shit when I heard the call, felt buried beneath the weight and all, D# A# twenty-five tons fell on my chest, every hour, every breath. Gm F You tell me every day that you won't leave, I'm sorry I put this at your feet D# F F but tell me can't you see. A# A# That we fall and fall and fall and fall, we meet each other at the end of it all, D# A# we wonder where all the good time's gone, how we carried something so long. Gm F We made a little something that felt like home, so we could face the night to come with that D# F F common touch, that common touch, that common touch to make us feel less alone. A# A# A#sus4 A# A# A# A#sus4 A# D# D# D#add9 D# A#