Early Out The Gate


[Intro/Outro and between verses] e-----0---------| B-----1---------| G-----0---------| D-----2-0-2-0-2-| X3 A-0-3-----------| E---------------| [The pauses between some of the lines] e-------------------------| B-------------------------| G-------------------------| D-0-2-0-2-----0-2-0-2-0---| *1 A---------0-3-------------| E-------------------------| e--3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3-3------| B--0---0------------------| G--0---0------------------| D--0---0---0-0-0-0-0------| *2 A--2-0-2-0-2-0-2-0-2------| E--3-0-3-0-3-0-3-0-3-3-3--| [G] [F] [C] What you're looking for is never what you find *1 [G] [F] [C] Nothing ever seems to turn out right *1 [Am] [G] Still running around still searching [F] [C] all these long indifferent streets [Am] [G] For your lover or some cover [F] [C] to protect you from the heat [G] That you feel inside *2 [F] [G] [C] inflamed since you learned to cry [G] [F] [C] Ever since you learned to walk you ran away *1 [G] [F] [C] kept running till you couldn't feel your legs *1 [Am] [G] Now you stumble round this drunken town [F] [C] pawn shops and titty bars [Am] [G] telling tales of just how far you got [F] [C] But they'll all know who you are [G] Yeah you're not so great *2 [F] [G] [C] You're just early out of the gate [G] [F] [C] there's a portrait of your mom when she was young *1 [G] [F] [C] Her face was shining brightly as the sun *1 [Am] [G] The son who got away from her [F] [C] but came back home again [Am] [G] to find a women wrapped [F] [C] with all this love she couldn't give [G] But you know she did *2 [F] [G] [C] You just couldn't feel it then [G] [F] [C] Found a birthday card from this lady I used to know *1 [G] [F] [C] It said boy you're really starting to get old *1 [Am] [G] She's the mother of my mother [F] [C] I knew just what she meant [Am] [G] She'd been through it before [F] [C] she'd known of all of this resentment [G] becomes regret *2 [F] [G] [C] I just hadn't gotten there yet *1 [Am] [G] [F][C] Nothing ever seems to turn out right [Am] [G] [F][C] No never, never seems to turn out right [G] So I leave it at this *2 [F][G] [C] my deepest regret