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Only Changing Drugs
Stuart Davis
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This is a simplified version that just gives the basic chord changes so that one can
play it through from start to finish. You�ll probably need to have a listen to get the
rhythm right. There�s some lead guitar between the verses that I have not included here
but it sounds like it�s just a matter of messing about in the Eminor blues scale. Enjoy!
Only Changing Drugs
G
I had my stomach pumped two times my senior year
C
Which earned the approbation of all my plastered peers
(Band In)
F Em9 F Em9
Now I do my weekly bleeding at trendy AA meetings
D C
I was a social monster, but now I serve my sponsor (w/Fill 1)
G D
I choke out clich� confessions, I suck down coffee black
G C
I chain smoke cigarettes between handfuls of Prozac
F Em9 F Em9
Man am I one sober stallion, I just got my first medallion
D C
My higher power drug me, I�m letting strangers hug me (w/Fill 1)
D C
Now I really crave a meeting, all those soothing empty greetings
D C
The Big Book is omniscient and I�m not self-sufficient
F Em9 D G
Dependency�s still coursing through my blood, I�m only changing drugs
G D
Self help study, twelve step program, which hollow slogan was it?
G C
We found serenity and Day by Day or Easy does it ?
F Em9 F Em9
Plant that affirmation seed, our license plate should read
D
Ten thousand lakes and treatment centres,
C G
Betty Ford�s our statewide mentor (w/ Fill 1)
G D
They say the devils in the details of this cunning, baffling habit
G C
I poured out all my Nyquil, I flushed my Sine-aid tablets
F Em9 F Em9
�Don�t take others inventory,� �Thanks for sharing your sick story
D C G
If I bluff I know they�ll call it, �I�m Stuart, I�m an alcoholic� (w/Fill 1)
D C
Dysfunction builds the strangest sages, quoting pointless daily phrases
D C G
The Big Book is omniscient, and I�m not self-sufficient
F Em9 D G
Dependency�s still coursing through my blood, I�m only changing drugs
(w/palm muting for the next 2 lines)
C B
It�s a self-perpetuating business, you can�t cure a life-long sickness
C G
Hazelden cleaned out my parents, but my stay was 14 carat
F Em9 C D
Inner peace is what we seek at fifteen hundred bucks a week
D C
Treatment�s just a new psychosis, need and weakness through hypnosis
D C G
The Big Book is omniscient, and I�m not self-sufficient
F Em9 D G
Dependency�s still coursing through my blood, I�m only changing drugs
Outro � G D G C F Em9 FEmin
D C G
Fill 1 (add between verses w/ad lib soloing)
E
B
G 0
D 0-2
A
E