PUP - Scorpion Hill

      [Intro]
E              A             E
Up on Scorpion Hill watching life
                          B
Passing me by in the pale moonlight
E                                            C#m
And I sat there forever, three sheets to the wind
B
It's not helping my case, the state that I'm in
A                     E
But it's not how they told you
A                  E
My intentions were good
A                                  E
I was just bursting apart like the end of the ark
C#m                      F#m        A
Holding on to whatever I could


[Verse 1]
E A E A C#m B A

E                           B                     A
A square of light moves its way through the empty room
E                         F#m
Across the stained yellow carpet
E                 B           A
Like a ghost of myself in the afternoon
            C
Haunting my basement apartment
B           C
I looked in to the mirror
C#m               A
Hanging behind my door
B                             C
The glass was cracked and the man staring back
C#m                   A
He don't look like me anymore
           B
And if the world is gonna burn
     C
Everyone should get a turn to light it up


[Chorus]
E B C#m A (x2)

E B
C#m  A   E    B    C#m  A            E B
Down and out, I've been on the rocks
C#m  A    E           A           F#m
I've been having some pretty dark thoughts
                    B   Cm
Yeah, I like them a lot


[Verse 2]
E A E A C#m B A

E             B                          A
Time and time again, well I've tried and failed to get my act together
E                     G#m                        A
And I'll admit lately things really went off the rails
C
I know that you deserve better
B                   C
But in the morning, as I was boarding
C#m                   A
The commuter train to work
B                               C
The boss was calling, he said, "There's been cutbacks and
C#m                  A
I'm sorry you're the first"
B
And If I can't support the two of us
Cm
How can I support a third?


[Chorus]
E B

C#m  A   E    B    C#m  A            E B
Down and out, I've been on the rocks
C#m  A    E           A           F#m
I've been having some pretty dark thoughts


[Bridge]
B
And I'm on the brink
E
Falling deep into debt
A
Falling deep into drink
F#m
I can drown those regrets
                B
I don't have to think
A                         E
Now I'm working the night shift
A             E
Asleep at the wheel
A                           E
I was bursting apart like a flame from a spark
C#m       F#m
Thinkin' "Jesus, this can't be for real"


[Verse 3]
A               E
My sweat-soaked mattress
A              E
Corner of the room
A              E
Cigarettes and matches
C#m            F#m
In the fading afternoon
A
And a picture of my kid, yeah, he's smiling
                      E
It's the first day of school


[Outro]
E B C#m A (x4)

F#m                    B                  E
She said, "I found the gun, it was buried beneath
         E                                  F#m
Piles of clothes in the room where your son sleeps
             B                             E
And I can't pretend, to know how this will end"