C F C |
I was in the winter of my life, |
C |
And the men I met along the road |
G/B Am |
Were my only summer |
Am F |
At night I fell asleep with visions of myself, |
C |
Dancing and laughing and crying with them |
C |
Three years down the line of being |
F |
On an endless world tour, |
C |
And my memories of them were the |
C |
Only things that sustained me, |
G/B Am F C F |
And my only real happy times |
F |
I was a singer - not a very popular one |
Am |
I once had dreams of becoming |
F |
A beautiful poet, but upon an unfortunate |
F |
Series of events saw those dreams |
G |
Dashed and divided like a million stars |
G |
In the night sky that I wished on over |
F Am G |
And over again, sparkling and broken |
Dm |
But I didn't really mind because |
Em F |
I knew that it takes getting everything |
F |
You ever wanted, and then losing it to |
Am G Dm Em F |
Know what true freedom is |
F Am |
When the people I used to know found |
G |
Out what I had been doing, |
Dm Em |
How I'd been living, they asked me why |
F |
But there's no use in talking to people |
F |
Who have home |
Am G Dm |
They have no idea what it's like to seek |
Em |
Safety in other people - for home |
F C |
To be wherever you lay your head |
C F C G/B Am |
I was always an unusual girl |
Am F |
My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, |
C |
No moral compass pointing due north, |
C |
No fixed personality; just an inner |
F C |
Indecisiveness that was as wide and |
C G/B Am |
As wavering as the ocean |
Am F |
And if I said I didn't plan for it |
C F |
To turn out this way I'd be lying |
F |
Because I was born to be the other woman |
Am |
Who belonged to no one, |
Am F |
Who belonged to everyone |
F G |
Who had nothing, who wanted everything, |
G |
With a fire for every experience and an |
F Am |
Obsession for freedom that terrified |
G |
Me to the point that I couldn't even |
Dm |
Talk about it, and pushed me to a |
Em F |
Nomadic point of madness that |
F Am G Dm Em F |
Both dazzled and dizzied me |
Bridge: |
F Am G Dm Dm Em F F Am G Dm Dm Em F C |
C F C G/B |
I've been out on that open road |
Am |
You can be my full time daddy |
F C |
White and gold |
C F C G/B |
Singing blues has been getting old |
Am |
You can be my full time baby |
F C |
Hot or cold |
F |
Don't break me down |
Am |
I've been travelin' too long |
F |
I've been trying too hard |
G F |
With one pretty song |
F Am G Dm |
I hear the birds on the summer breeze |
Em F |
I drive fast, I am alone in midnight |
F Am G Dm |
Been tryin' hard not to get into trouble |
Em F |
But I, I've got a war in my mind |
F Am G Dm |
So, I just ride, |
Dm Em F F Am G Dm |
Just ride I just ride, |
Dm Em F C |
Just ride |
C F C G/B |
Dying young and I'm playing hard |
Am |
That's the way my father |
F C |
Made his life an art |
C F C G/B |
Drink all day and we talk 'til dark |
Am |
That's the way the road dogs do it |
F C |
Ride 'til dark |
F |
Don't leave me now |
Am |
Don't say good bye |
F |
Don't turn around |
G F |
Leave me high and dry |
F Am G Dm |
I hear the birds on the summer breeze |
Em F |
I drive fast, I am alone in midnight |
F Am G Dm |
Been tryin' hard not to get into trouble |
Em F |
But I, I've got a war in my mind |
F Am G Dm |
I just ride, |
Dm Em F F Am G Dm |
Just ride I just ride, |
Dm Em F |
Just ride |
F Am G Dm |
I'm tired of feeling like I'm fucking crazy |
Dm Em |
I'm tired of driving |
F |
'til I see stars in my eyes |
F Am G Dm |
It's all I've got to keep myself sane, baby |
Em F |
So I just ride, I just ride |
F Am G Dm |
I hear the birds on the summer breeze |
Em F |
I drive fast, I am alone in midnight |
F Am G Dm |
Been tryin' hard not to get into trouble |
Em F |
But I, I've got a war in my mind |
F Am G Dm |
I just ride, |
Dm Em F F Am G Dm |
Just ride I just ride, |
Dm Em F |
Just ride |
Bridge: |
F Am G Dm Dm Em F |
Bridge: |
G/B Am C C x4 |
F |
Every night I used to pray that |
Am G |
I'd find my people, |
Dm Em F |
And finally I did on the open road |
F Am G Dm |
We had nothing to lose, nothing to gain, |
Em |
Nothing we desired anymore, |
F Am |
Except to make our lives into a work of art |
G Dm Em F |
Live fast. Die young. Be wild. |
F Am |
And have fun |
G Dm |
I believe in the country America used to be |
Em F |
I believe in the person I want to become |
F Am |
I believe in the freedom of the open road |
G Dm Em |
And my motto is the same as ever: |
F |
"I believe in the kindness of strangers. |
F Am G Dm |
And when I'm at war with myself I ride, |
Em F |
I just ride." |
F Am |
Who are you? |
G |
Are you in touch with all of your |
Dm |
darkest fantasies? |
Em |
Have you created a life for |
F |
yourself where you can experience them? |
Am G Dm Em F |
I have. I am fucking crazy |
F |
But I am free |
Bridge: |
G/B Am C C x4 |
Ending: |
C C G/B Am x4 |