Piano Intro is a repeated Bb
Intro: Bbmag x8
Bbmag Bb#5 Bb6 Bb#5 Bbmag
Fingers blistered from the nightly scratching at the window which won't open
far enough to let air in.
(Bb6) E
The house wins.
Bbmag
Oh the house always wins.
Bbmag Bb#5 Bb6 Bb#5 Bbmag
Feral cats are screaming at the clouds beneath the window with the crack so
small that nothing gets within.
(Bb6) E
The house wins.
Bbmag
Oh the house always wins.
You don't have to be alone to be lonely,
You might as well give in.
Bbmag x4
Bbmag Bb#5 Bb6 Bb#5 Bb
Telephones are howling at the cats out in the alley and the window offers
nothing in the din.
(Bb6) E
The house wins.
Bbmag
Oh the house always wins.
Bbmag Bb#5 Bb6 Bb#5
Clouds uncage the car alarms to chase the cats and telephones.
Bbmag Bb#5 Bb6
Fingers rake and rasp away their skin.
(Bb6) E
The house wins.
Bbmag
Oh the house always wins.
You don't have to be alone to be lonely,
Bbmag
You might as well give in.
Yeah you don't have to be alone to be lonely,
Bbmag
You might as well give in.
Bbmag x2
G - E - Bb x2
- - - x2
G - E - A - B
Piano on Bb x2
Bbmag Bb#5 Bb6 Bb#5 Bb Bb#5
Ice age upon catastrophic ice age of selection and only one result has
trickled in...
(Bb6) E
The house wins.
Bbmag
Oh the house always wins.
Bbmag Bb#5 Bb6 Bb#5 Bb
If evil were a lesser breed than justice after all these years the righteous
would have freed the world of sin.
(Bb6) E
The house wins.
Bbmag
Oh the house always wins.
You don't have to be alone to be lonely,
Bbmag
You might as well give in.
You don't have to be alone to be lonely,
Bbmag
You might as well give in.
You don't have to be sick to be dying
Bbmag
You might as well give in.
You don't have to have lost to be lost.
Bbmag
Oh give in.
You don't have to be alone to be lonely,
Bbmag
You might as well give in.
NOTES: On the verse immediately following the solo section, you may want to hold Bb
as the primary chord until "the house wins". This makes it more true to the song.