Something to Believe In (MTV Unplugged Version)
Poison
Open E Tuning (EBEG#BE)
CHORDS:
E F#m Abm A B (A) (Asus2)
-0- -0- -0- -0- -0- -x- -x-
-0- -0- -0- -0- -0- -x- -x-
-0- -1- -3- -5- -7- -x- -x-
-0- -2- -4- -5- -7- -5- -5-
-0- -2- -4- -5- -7- -5- -7-
-0- -0- -0- -0- -0- -5- -5-
INTRO:
I came home from school on Tuesday
To find my mother gone
Why she left I’ll never know
It seemed like they got along
But one of these days I’d like to know
Just where it all went wrong
A woman torn to tears asks
Who the real criminals are
Or when they told ‘er her husband died
Fighting in another country’s drug wars
She said it isn’t the kids on the streets without a dream
Shooting up the dealer’s smack
It’s them a red-tape politicians
Digging on the drug lords kick-backs
Isn’t it funny what power and money
Can do to the soul of a man?
And give me something to believe in
If there’s a lord above
I give me something to believe in
If there’s a lord above
He got a second job at night now
Just to help pay the bills
And there he worked for the rest of his life
Cuz his wife had taken him in
Now he lives on a bottle of courage
He buys at the liquor store
He did his family real good
Till he couldn’t do it anymore
Whatever he found, why he broke down
No one’s really sure
Just needed something to believe in
If there’s a lord above
He needed something to believe in
Oh lord arise
The tracks of society’s racial on the old man’s face
His eyes blood red lay to waste
SOLO (see bottom for timing of to chords):
B A B A E (A) (Asus2) (A) (Asus2)
E (A) (Asus2) (A) (Asus2) Abm F#m Abm A
Well the mirror tells a different story
Than the one that’s playin’ in my mind
Every time I swear I’m lookin’ younger
The more lines that I find
I guess I learned to trade youth for wisdom
And lust in for romance
It’s all written in the stages and phases
Of life’s little dance
And when I wanna bitch about growin’ old
I think of how many never had a chance
It gives me something to believe in
Oh lord arise (x4)
Sometimes I wish I didn’t know now
Things I didn’t know then
And give me something to believe in
Solo timing:
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