Key: C
Introduction:
F Bb
You used to feel like a smoker
G
Shivering in the cold
C
Waiting outside the bar
F
Til the opener's over
F Bb
But now you feel like a drinker
G
Twenty days off the sauce
C
Down at the liquor store
Bb
Trying to call your sponsor
C F
You used to feel like the forest fire burning
D F Bb
But now... now you feel like a child
C F Bb F
Throwing tantrums for your turn
F Bb
You used to sound like a prophet
G
And everyone wanted to know
C
How you could tell the truth
F
Without losing that soft glow
Bb
But now you feel like a salesman
G
Closing another deal
C
Or some drunk ship captain
Bb
Raging after the white whale
C F
You used to feel like the forest fire burning
D F Bb
But now... now you feel like a child
C Bb
Throwing tantrums and then some
C F
You used to feel like the prodigal returning
D F Bb
But now... now you hate what you've made
C Bb F
And you want to watch it burn