Key: C
Introduction:
C E
The animals laugh from the dark of the wilderness.
Am F G
A baby cries hard in an apartment complex,
C E
As I pass in a car buried under the influence.
Am F G
The city's driving me out of my mind.
C E
I've seen a child is caught in the sad trap of gravity.
Am F G
He falls from the lowest branch of the apple tree,
C E
And lands in the grass and weeps for his dignity.
Am F G
Next time he will not aim so high.
Am G C
Yeah, next time, neither will I.
A mother takes loans out, sends her kids off to colleges.
C
I stood dropping a coin into the pit of a well.
And I would throw my whole billfold if I thought it would help.
C
Well, I awoke in relief. My sheets and tubes were all tangled.
Weak from whiskey and pills, in a Chicago hospital.