Dont Fall Apart On Me Tonight

	  		
Intro: C  G/B  Fmaj7  (x4) 

verse 1 
C             G/B               F 
Just a minute before you leave, girl, 
C       G/B                         F 
Just a minute before you touch the door. 
C     G/B                            F 
What is it that you're trying to achieve, girl? 
C       G/B                             F 
Do you think we can talk about it some more? 
             Dm                        Am 
You know, the streets are filled with vipers 
    Dm                  Am 
Who've lost all ray of hope, 
C/G 
You know, it ain't even safe no more 
         G 
In the palace of the Pope. 
C          G/B           F 
Don't fall apart on me tonight, 
C            G/B                F 
I just don't think that I could handle it. 
C           G/B          F 
Don't fall apart on me tonight, 
Dm                 Em 
Yesterday's just a memory, 
  F                            C/G 
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be 
      G           F/G 
And I need you, yeah. 


verse 2 

C             G/B               F 
Come over here from over there, girl, 
C             G/B               F 
Sit down here. You can have my chair. 
C             G/B               F 
I can't see us goin' anywhere, girl. 
 C                               G/B                          F 
The only place open is a thousand miles away and I can't take you there. 
    Dm                  Am 
I wish I'd have been a doctor, 
    Dm                                 Am 
Maybe I'd have saved some life that had been lost, 
C/G 
Maybe I'd have done some good in the world 
              G 
'Stead of burning every bridge I crossed. 
C          G/B           F 
Don't fall apart on me tonight, 
C                  G/B           F 
I just don't think that I could handle it. 
C          G/B           F 
Don't fall apart on me tonight, 
Dm                 Em 
Yesterday's just a memory, 
  F                            C/G 
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be 
      G           F/G 
And I need you, oh, yeah. 


verse 3 

C             G/B               F 
I ain't too good at conversation, girl, 
C             G/B                   F 
So you might not know exactly how I feel, 
C                     G/B                      F 
But if I could, I'd bring you to the mountaintop, girl, 
C                     G/B                   F 
And build you a house made out of stainless steel. 
    Dm                           Am 
But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting 
    Dm                  Am 
That's hanging in the Louvre, 
C/G 
My throat start to tickle and my nose itches 
            G 
But I know that I can't move. 
C          G/B           F 
Don't fall apart on me tonight, 
C                   G/B           F 
I just don't think that I could handle it. 
C          G/B           F 
Don't fall apart on me tonight, 
Dm                         Em 
Yesterday's gone but the past lives on, 
  F                      C/G 
Tomorrow's just one step beyond 
      G           F/G 
And I need you, oh, yeah. 

Bridge 

Bb                           F 
Who are these people who are walking towards you? 
                                    C 
Do you know them or will there be a fight? 
           Bb                  F 
With their humorless smiles so easy to see through, 
                                           C 
Can they tell you what's wrong from what's right? 
F               C 
Do you remember St. James Street 
F                          C 
Where you blew Jackie P.'s mind? 
            F                            C 
You were so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet 
    Bb       F           G11    G 
And laid his life on the line. 

verse 4 

C                   G/B                F 
Let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl, 
C                        G/B                        F 
No more booby traps and bombs, No more decadence and charm, 
C                G/B               F 
No more affection that's misplaced, girl,  
C                   G/B               F 
No more mudcake creatures lying in your arms. 
    Dm                                        Am 
What about that millionaire with the drumsticks in his pants? 
    Dm                       Am 
He looked so baffled and so bewildered 
C/G 
When he played and we didn't dance. 
C          G/B           F 
Don't fall apart on me tonight, 
C                   G/B           F 
I just don't think that I could handle it. 
C          G/B           F 
Don't fall apart on me tonight, 
Dm                 Em 
Yesterday's just a memory, 
  F                            C/G 
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be 
      G        F/G 
And I need you, yeah.