B Bbm6 | Abm C#m F#
Abm C#m
As I walk through the streets of my new city
F# B
my back feeling much better, I suppose
Bbm6 Abm C#m
I’ve reclaimed the use of my imagination
F# B
for better or for worse, I’ve yet to know
Bbm6 Abm C#m
but I always knew you’d be the one to understand me,
F# B Bbm6
I guess that’s why it took so long to get things right.
Abm
Suddenly I’m lost
C#m
On my street
On my block
F#
Oh why, Oh why
B E
Oh why haven’t you been there for me?
F# B Bbm6
Can’t you see, I’m losing my mind this time?
Abm C#m
This time it’s for real, I can see
F# Abm Bbm C#m
All the trees are turning red
F# Abm Bbm C#m F#
The beggars near bodegas grin at me
F# Abm Bbm C#m
I think they want something
F# Abm Bbm C#m F#
I close my eyes, I tell myself to breathe
B
and be calm.
Be calm.
E B
I know you feel like you are breaking down.
Abm C#m E
Well I know that it gets so hard sometimes.
F#
Be calm.
Abm C#m
I’m scared that everyone is out to get me.
F# B Bbm6
“These days before you speak to me you pause.”
Abm C#m
“I always see you looking out your window.”
F# B Bbm6
“After all, you lost your band, you left your mom.”
Abm C#m
Now every single crack, every pain that I pass,
F# B Bbm6
says I should either leave or pick it up
Abm
But with every single buck I’ve made
C#m
I’m saddled with bad luck that came
F#
the moment I was baptized
F#
or when I found out one day I’m gonna die
Abm Bbm C# F# Abm C#m
if only I could find my people or my place in life
F# Abm Bb C#m
then when they come to ‘carolin’
F# Abm Bbm C#m
so loud, so bright, the theremin
F# Abm Bbm
will lead us to a chorus
C#m F# Abm Bbm C#m F#
where we’ll all rejoice and sing a song that goes:
B
Oh be calm.
Be calm.
E B
I know you feel like you are breaking down.
Abm C#m E
I know that it gets so hard sometimes,
F#
Be calm.
B Ebm
Take it from me, I’ve been there a thousand times.
Abm
You hate your pulse because it thinks you’re still alive
Abm Bbm B C#m
and e-very–thing’s wrong
E C#m
It just gets so hard sometimes
F#
Be calm.
Abm F# Ebm C#m
I don’t remember much that night,
B F# B F# F# Ab B
Just walking, thinking fondly of you
Abm F# Ebm C#m B
Thinking how the worst is yet to come
F# B F# B
From that street corner came a song
B C#m Ebm E
And I can’t remember the man,
F# B Bbm6
The panhandler or his melody.
Abm F# Ebm C#m F#
The words exchanged had far exceeded any change I’d given thee.
B
Oh be calm.
Be calm.
E B
I know you feel like you are breaking down.
Abm C#m E
I know that it gets so hard sometimes,
F#
Be calm.
B Ebm
Take it from me, I’ve been there a thousand times.
Abm
You hate your pulse because it thinks you’re still alive
Abm Bbm B C#m
and e-very–thing’s wrong
E C#m
It just gets so hard sometimes
F#
Be calm.
Abm
Be calm.
Outro: D G
