Default Blues

Intro: B B A F# (x2) 

Verse: 1 
             B 
Turn off the light bulb ache to a shrieking pain 
          A                       F# 
Turn that hair into a haircut and change your name 
            B 
Through the yellow teeth white lies are told 
       A                   F# 
Of the notches made in the house of smoke 
            B 
So pick the padlocked case in the padlocked room 
         A                                 F# 
Wipe the smile from your face and sing the default blues 

And go 

 
E             B               F# 
 What are you running from, a-ha 
             E 
What are you running from, ahh 
             B                  F# 
The past may die but it's never gone 
             E                    
What are you running from, ahh 

Instrumental 
B B A F# (x2) 

Verse: 2 
        B 
This is textbook heartbreak from the country school 
        A                       F# 
The prescription sculpture of a thoughtless stool 
                B 
You've got your heroin monologues that you lifted from books 
           A                              F# 
Now you're wearing a helmet whilst you're breaking the rules 
         B 
Pick the padlocked case in the padlocked room 
         A                                 F# 
Wipe the smile from your face and sing the default blues 

It goes 


E             B               F# 
 What are you running from, a-ha 
             E 
What are you running from, ahh 
             B                  F# 
The past may die but it's never gone 
             E 
What are you running from, ahh 
             B               F# 
What are you running from, a-ha 
             E 
What are you running from, ahh 
               B             F# 
The accent you hid behind is gone 
             E                  
What are you running from, ahh 

Bridge 
B  B 

      A                   F# 
There isn't a cure, there isn't a cure 
B  B 
      A                   F# 
There isn't a cure 
          B 
Save your wax world torture for your modeling friends 
       A 
Speak emotional trash straight from Zimmerman's bin 
         B 
Pick the padlocked case in the padlocked room 
         A                                 F# 
Wipe the smile from your face and sing the default blues 

It goes 


             B               F# 
What are you running from, a-ha 
             E 
What are you running from, ahh 
               B             F# 
The accent you hid behind is gone 
             E 
What are you running from, ahh 
E             B               F# 
 What are you running from, a-ha 
             E 
What are you running from, ahh 
             B                  F# 
The past may die but it's never gone 
             E                  
What are you running from, ahh