Ward Davis - The Overpass

      The Overpass
By Ward Davis
Key:  C
Fingerstyle

[Verse]

C
Well he wakes up, nice and dry

Hears the cars and trucks above him rollin by
                   Am                 F
He lights a cig…Takes a swig
                C
He does this everyday

C
Wife and kids….weren’t enough

Started running round…drinking way too much
      Am                     F
Takin pills…..chasing thrills
                    C
Till he lost everything

[Chorus]

G                                       F
Somedays he’s sober long enough to feel regret
C
But he’ll find a bottle and it won’t last
G                                   F
Cause he can’t bear the thought of what it took to get

Dm                          G
From what he had to what he has
              C
Under the Overpass

[Verse]

C
He prefers….sunshine to rain

Cause the liquor store’s half a mile away
              Am               F
But folks give more…on days it pours
                       C
So it works out either way

[Chorus]

G                                       F
Somedays he’s sober long enough to feel regret
C
But he’ll find a bottle and it won’t last
G                                  F
Cause he can’t bear the thought of what it took to get

Dm                          G
From what he had to what he has
          C
Under the Overpass

Instrumental (Am-G-C)

[Chorus 2]

G                                     F
He’s just biding time…the only way he knows
C
Numbing pain he can’t get past
 G                                     F
He’ll be there until he’s got somewhere to go.
Dm
But who knows how long he has

[Verse]

C
Well he wakes up, nice and dry

Hears the cars and trucks above him rollin by
            Am          F
He lights a cig…Takes a swig
                C
He does this everyday