Key: D
Introduction:
A G D
verse 1
D G D
Well my shoes are crumbling from my feet
A G D
Still I can choose to embrace victory or defeat
D G Bm
It's just I'm scared I must have done somebody wrong
A G
Still I'm prepared to pay the price
D
In another life as another someone
G D
Cause I'm here and then I'm gone
A Bm
But I wont to be gone for long
G D
It's just I live a little beyond where the last buses run
verse 2
D G D
Little children always seem afraid of me
A
I never done them wrong
G D
Nor their parents, as far as I can see
D G
I know it's true I ain't too cool
Bm
I kinda dress down like tramp
A G
No, it's no excuse not to bathe
D
I know that I smell pretty bad
G D
Well I'm always out of line
A Bm
But I'm just my mother's son
G D
And I live a little beyond where the last buses run
verse 3
D G D
And it's true I never had a job
A G D
Unlike you there's no one I have ever robbed
D G Bm
I'm a man though they treat me like a dog
A G D
I can't understand what it is they are so afraid of
G D
For I'd love to be with you
A Bm
But it just cannot be done
G D
For I live a little beyond where the last buses run
Interlude
G D
verse 4
D G D
Well the sun is water in my eye
A G D
And my blues are as blue as the cloudless summer sky
D G Bm
And if I knew what tomorrow might bring
A G D
I might throw a noose over a beam & there I'd swing
D G Bm
But it ain't mee and even cliches disappear
A G D
I can bare my teeth even while I'm living on the verge of tears
D G Bm
For today there's too much sunshine in the sky
A G
And these tears of grief could be tears of joy
D
Welling in my eye for the
G D A Bm
The end is coming soon but it's only just begun
G D
Where I live a little beyond where the last buses run
G D
Well I'm crank and I'm a crack pot
A Bm
But I ain't a bad son of a gun
G D
It's just I live a little beyond where the last buses run