Songs from the Doghouse: November 2013

Sunday, 10 November 2013

Drinking Man's Game

Drinking Man’s Game

(words & music by Chris Stanley)

On Monday she’s a meteor crashing to my world

Bringing heartache from the heavens, she’s an interstellar girl

On Tuesday she’s the firework that turns the sky to art

On Wednesday she’s a wrecking ball and she’s swinging for my heart

G D

On Thursday night it’s happy our and she wants to quench my thirst

But she don’t know what I’ve been through and she don’t know what I might do

But I’m a whole lot of trouble honey

I’m in a whole lot of trouble baby

G D A G D A

Love is a drinking man’s game, love is a drinking man’s game

Friday night support group in a hotel out of town

I’m about to share my story with a room of broken men

When she walks in through a side door in a killer set of heels

Says ‘Boy you want to split this joint, I’ll show you how love feels’

She wants to be my weekend and I say yes she can

But she don’t know what I’ve been through and she don’t know what I might do

But I’m a whole lot of trouble honey

I’m in a whole lot of trouble baby

G D A G D Em7

Love is a drinking man’s game, love is a drinking man’s game

A7 Em7

She’s a glass of the good times – mix it up

A7 Em7

A glass or two of the hard times – mix it up

A7 G D D7

She’s a bottle of everything I want but the faster I drink the faster she’s gone

She don’t know what I’ve been through

And she don’t know what I might do

From D.U.I. to S.I.N. believe me when I tell you I’m a whole lot of trouble baby

Love is a drinking man’s game

Night Trains

Night Trains

(words & music by Chris Stanley)

F C

From a hill I watch the night trains

Bb C/G

Rush into the darkness

F C Bb C/G

There for just one moment of time

Freight cars disappearing just like the friends I lost

Tearing through the heartlands, beating down the line

C Bb Bb/A Bb Bb/A

One day I want to ride that train

C Bb Bb/A Bb Bb/A

One day I want to feel that way again

Bb C F C Bb

But nothing lasts like the lies of a friend

C F

Where the day is just a memory and the night has no end

She travelled north from Texas to the great plains of Nebraska

When the courts denied her stepfather bail

I took her out to Lone Tree where it overlooks the river

And watched those night trains snake through the hills

(chorus)

Dm C

We walked every road in this one sideshow town

Bb C

Promised forever we’d never look back

Dm C

Through movies and music and nights in the park

Bb C

It seemed we were flying and falling and rising

Dm Bb

Together and never to part

Dm C Bb

Together like sunshine we’d light up the dark in this town

C F

While our souls and our hearts were on the night trains

I saw the way she looked at him and I knew that she was leaving

Her letter said she was never coming back

And God I miss those evenings, dreaming we were something

Now there’s just a pale moon and a thousand miles of track

One day I’m gonna ride that train

One day I want to see your face again

But nothing lasts like the lies of a friend

It’s like riding on the night train when the night has no end

Rose

Rose

(words & music by Chris Stanley)

F#m B C#m F#m

Rose left the station with nothing at all but her clothes and the scars on her wrists

She was hungry and cold and dressed like a doll

A photograph clenched in her fist

C#m F#m C#m F#m

And she was on her own, she was on her own

B F#m

And I took her home in the back of my car

G# A B

‘Cause I had a room and she had my heart

She married my brother the first week in May and bore him two kids in July

They rented a house out on Nevergreen Way

And spent all their money on wine

And they argued, Lord how they argued

And I watched them fight and I hoped they would part

‘Cause I had a room and she had my heart

B F#m B F#m

In my dreams I am falling down, in my dreams I am falling down

D E F#m E D F#m

In my dreams I don’t know who I am and that’s not right

Rose got a job waiting tables at night and I stopped in after work

We got angry and drunk and we started to fight

Then she kissed me and I lifted her skirt

And she wanted me, she said she wanted me

And I should have left little Rose in the dark

But I had a room and she had my heart

Chorus

D F#m E

Rose left her kids with a note on the back of the photo

D F#m E

Moved into my room, laid down on my bed and oh

B F#m B F#m

But Rose wouldn’t talk to me, little Rose couldn’t look at me

D E F#m E D F#m

‘Cause Rose wanted something from me and it’s not love – not this time

Rose loved her kids, called them Bucket and Spade and tattooed their names on her heart

But she hid behind doors ‘cause she was afraid

Of a man she’d loved in the past

And he was coming, she said he’s coming

And I called her a cheat, and I called her a liar

‘Cause not that she’s mind there’s no room in my heart

In my dreams I have fallen down

In my dreams I don’t like who I am

And that’s not right

A E D

That’s not all right

F#m E D D – E – F#m

No, no that’s – that’s not right

Welcome to the Country

Welcome to the Country

(words and music by Chris Stanley)

E D A B

Tonight, tonight, there’s nowhere else to be

You and me we’re heading south ‘til the road runs out

Out to sea

Sit back, relax, and hear the highway sing

Put your feet up on the dash

Let the radio do the talking

C G A A – B – C

I want to be where the sunrise catches like the fire in your eyes, burning inside

I want to wake up and feel you beside me

A B

Put your hand on my chest and tell me it’s all right

E D A B

Hoh-oh-oh – welcome to the country

E D A B

Hoh-oh-oh – if you want to get livin’ you better get with me

E D A B

Hoh-oh-oh – let’s take it to the country

C G (N.C. G – F# – D)

And leave the city behind

Moonlight, high tide, sitting in the back of my truck

Me out of work and you out of college

Folks would say we’re out of luck

But I’m here and you’re here and that’s enough for us

So let’s raise a glass to the rich men runnin’ this country into the du – u - ust

Hoh-oh-oh – welcome to the country

Hoh-oh-oh – if you want to get livin’ you better get with me

Hoh-oh-oh – take me to the country

And leave the city behind

C G

You and me we’re bound for better things

C D B7

But you gotta get with me toni - ight

I want to be where the sunrise catches like the fire in your eyes, burning inside

I want to wake up and feel you beside me

Put your hand on my chest and tell me it’s all right

Storm Chasing Man

Storm Chasing Man

(words & music by Chris Stanley)

End

There's a cold wind in the desert, the sky is scorched and blessed

Cadd9 D

There's thunder in the eastern skies and rain clouds to the west

There's a crease on the horizon they call the devil's hand

D G

And there's a new day dawning for a storm chasing man

There's a body by the roadside, it's a road of wreck and ruin

I'm fifty miles from shelter here and five hundred miles from you

There's a weight of expectation it's hard to understand

And there’s a new day dawning for a storm chasing man

C G

And it's okay, no it's just fine, you said it's over and I said goodbye

And if you're asking where I'm going

D C

You'll always find me where the wind is blowing

D C – C/B – Am7 – G

With a tornado tan

I wish that I was like you, I thought we were the same

But you prefer the summer sun and I prefer the rain

From super cells to cyclones, from Snyder to Cheyenne

The time is coming for a storm chasing man

Em – D – C – C-C/B-Am7

Em – D-C – verse chords

And it's okay, no it's just fine you said it's over and I said goodbye

And if you're asking where I'm going

You'll always find me where the wind is blowing

With a tornado tan

It rises in the valley silently at first

Gathering intensity 'til it's a wall of death and dirt

I leave the road forever, it's time to make a stand

And it's now or never for a storm chasing man

G D

It’ll eat you up and spit you out

Am C7

Life you up and throw you down

G D G

But I’m alive and I’m living like a storm chasing man