Last Straw
Jacks Mannequin
Here's a B side that was recorded for Everything in Transit. It's one of my
favorite Jack songs. Hope you like it =]
Verse 1:
G C Am C G
I heard that you went out last night
C Am
And you looked beautiful,
C G
Just like a bat beneath the moonlight
C Am C
I stayed home, took a Vicadin
G C Am
Sometimes it's all that I can do
C G C
When I think about the president
G C G
How did he become the president?
C Am C G
And I stayed awake for a day or two
C
I thought about the world
Am C G
Drank gin and watched the news
C Am C G
And there are some things that I'll never understand
C Am
Why a country needs a God
C G C Am C F
And a woman nee-ds a ma -an
Chorus:
C F
And you never write me letters
C F
And you never sent my sweaters
Am G
So I could stay warm when I was without you
G G
Without you I don't sleep
C Am C G C Am C
Just a dream
Verse 2:
G C Am C
And I scratched these words into a black notebook
G C Am C G
I wrote your name on top, I knew you'd never look
C Am C G
And i tried my best to fight the atmosphere
C Am C Am
To think the happy thoughts that leave the phone lines clear
F C
I see Arizona stars from here
G F
But Peter Pan is miles away
Chorus:
C F
And you never write me letters
C F
And you never sent my sweaters
Am G
So I could stay warm when I was without you
G F
Without you I don't have
C Am
A place that's safe from all the monsters
G
That hide in my head
F
And sing me to sleep, sleep
G G Am
This is the last straw
F
This is the last straw, She said
Bridge:
C
Well I won't wait for you forever
Am
When you run around like JFK
G
And watch that poor girl waste the best years of her life
F
And I'll be damned if I am going out, I will not go out that way
Instrumental:
C Am G F
Chorus:
C F
And you never write me letters
C F
And you never sent my sweaters
Am G
So you could stay warm when I was gone
G F
Without you I don't have
C Am
A place that's safe from all the monsters
G
That hide in my head
F
And keep me 'till dawn
G
I think this is the last straw