Key: C
Introduction: C
G/B
F7M
C
G/B
F
Just a minute before you leave, girl,
C
G/B
F
Just a minute before you touch the door.
C
G/B
F
What is it that you're trying to achieve, girl?
C
G/B
F
Do you think we can talk about it some more?
Dm
Am
You know, the streets are filled with vipers
Dm
Am
Who've lost all ray of hope,
C/G
You know, it ain't even safe no more
G
In the palace of the Pope.
C
G/B
F
Don't fall apart on me tonight,
C
G/B
F
I just don't think that I could handle it.
C
G/B
F
Don't fall apart on me tonight,
Dm
Em
Yesterday's just a memory,
F
C/G
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
G
F/G
And I need you, yeah.
verse 2
C
G/B
F
Come over here from over there, girl,
C
G/B
F
Sit down here. You can have my chair.
C
G/B
F
I can't see us goin' anywhere, girl.
C
G/B
F
The only place open is a thousand miles away and I can't take you there.
Dm
Am
I wish I'd have been a doctor,
Dm
Am
Maybe I'd have saved some life that had been lost,
C/G
Maybe I'd have done some good in the world
G
'Stead of burning every bridge I crossed.
C
G/B
F
Don't fall apart on me tonight,
C
G/B
F
I just don't think that I could handle it.
C
G/B
F
Don't fall apart on me tonight,
Dm
Em
Yesterday's just a memory,
F
C/G
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
G
F/G
And I need you, oh, yeah.
verse 3
C
G/B
F
I ain't too good at conversation, girl,
C
G/B
F
So you might not know exactly how I feel,
C
G/B
F
But if I could, I'd bring you to the mountaintop, girl,
C
G/B
F
And build you a house made out of stainless steel.
Dm
Am
But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting
Dm
Am
That's hanging in the Louvre,
C/G
My throat start to tickle and my nose itches
G
But I know that I can't move.
C
G/B
F
Don't fall apart on me tonight,
C
G/B
F
I just don't think that I could handle it.
C
G/B
F
Don't fall apart on me tonight,
Dm
Em
Yesterday's gone but the past lives on,
F
C/G
Tomorrow's just one step beyond
G
F/G
And I need you, oh, yeah.
Bridge
Bb
F
Who are these people who are walking towards you?
C
Do you know them or will there be a fight?
Bb
F
With their humorless smiles so easy to see through,
C
Can they tell you what's wrong from what's right?
F
C
Do you remember St. James Street
F
C
Where you blew Jackie P.'s mind?
F
C
You were so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet
Bb
F
G11
G
And laid his life on the line.
verse 4
C
G/B
F
Let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl,
C
G/B
F
No more booby traps and bombs, No more decadence and charm,
C
G/B
F
No more affection that's misplaced, girl,
C
G/B
F
No more mudcake creatures lying in your arms.
Dm
Am
What about that millionaire with the drumsticks in his pants?
Dm
Am
He looked so baffled and so bewildered
C/G
When he played and we didn't dance.
C
G/B
F
Don't fall apart on me tonight,
C
G/B
F
I just don't think that I could handle it.
C
G/B
F
Don't fall apart on me tonight,
Dm
Em
Yesterday's just a memory,
F
C/G
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
G
F/G
And I need you, yeah.