Intro
[C] [G] [F] x4
Verse 1
[C] [G] [F]
Just a minute before you leave
[C] [G] [F]
Just a minute before you touch the door
[C] [G] [F]
What is it that you're trying to achieve?
[C] [G] [F]
Do you think we can just talk about it some more?
[Dm]
The streets are filled with vipers
[Dm]
Who've lost all ray of hope
[G]
It ain't even safe no more
[G]
In the palace of the Pope
Chorus
[C] [G] [F]
Don't fall apart on me tonight
[C] [G] [F]
I just don't think that I could handle it
[C] [G] [F]
Don't fall apart on me tonight
[Dm] [Em]
Yesterday's just a memory
[F] [G]
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
[G]
And I need you, oh yeah
Verse 2
[C] [G] [F]
Come over here from over there
[C] [G] [F]
Sit down here. You can have my chair
[C] [G] [F]
I can't see us goin' anywhere
[C] [G] [F]
The only place open is a thousand miles away and I can't take you there
[Dm]
I wish I'd have been a doctor
[Dm]
Maybe I'd have saved some lives been lost
[G]
Maybe I'd have done some good in the world
[G]
'Stead of burning every bridge I crossed
Chorus
[C] [G] [F]
Don't fall apart on me tonight
[C] [G] [F]
I just don't think that I could handle it
[C] [G] [F]
Don't fall apart on me tonight
[Dm] [Em]
Yesterday's just a memory
[F] [G]
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
[G]
And I need you, oh yeah
Verse 3
[C] [G] [F]
I ain't too good at conversation
[C] [G] [F]
So, you might not know exactly how I feel
[C] [G] [F]
But if I could, I'd bring you to the mountaintop
[C] [G] [F]
And build you a house of stainless steel
[Dm]
But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting
[Dm]
That's hanging in the Louvre
[G]
My throat start to tickle and my nose itches
[G]
But I know that I can't move
Chorus
[C] [G] [F]
Don't fall apart on me tonight
[C] [G] [F]
I just don't think that I could handle it
[C] [G] [F]
Don't fall apart on me tonight
[Dm] [Em]
Yesterday's gone but the past lives on
[F] [G]
Tomorrow's just one step beyond
[G]
And I need you, oh yeah
Bridge
[Bb] [F]
Who are these people walking toward you?
[C]
Do you know them or will there be a fight?
[Bb] [F]
With their humorless smiles so easy to see through
[F] [C]
Can they tell you what's wrong from what's right?
[F] [C]
Do you remember Napolean Street
[F] [C]
Where you blew Jackie P.'s mind?
[F] [C]
You were so fine, Clark Gable would've fell at your feet
[Bb] [F] [G]
And laid his life on the line
Instrumental
[C] [G] [F] x2
Verse 4
[C] [G] [F]
Let's try to get beneath the surface waste
[C] [G] [F]
No more booby traps and bombs, No more decadence and charm
[C] [G] [F]
No more affection that's misplaced,
[C] [G] [F]
No more mudcake creatures lying in your arms
[Dm]
What about that billionaire
[Dm]
With the drumsticks in his pants?
[G]
He looked so baffled, so bewildered
[G]
When he played and we didn't dance
Chorus
[C] [G] [F]
Don't fall apart on me tonight
[C] [G] [F]
I just don't think that I could handle it
[C] [G] [F]
Don't fall apart on me tonight
[Dm] [Em]
Yesterday's just a memory
[F] [G]
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
[G]
And I need you, oh yeah
[C] [G] [F]
Don't fall apart on me tonight
[C] [G] [F]
Don't fall apart on me tonight
[C] [G] [F]
Don't fall apart on me tonight
[C] [G] [F]
Don't fall apart on me tonight
[C] [G] [F]
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Outro
[C] [G] [F] [C]
