Rotting Strip chords by Crooked Fingers

Chords with lyrics

Rotting Strip / Crooked Fingers

D MajorD
Blurry eyes half bent and I can’t take you sober
G+G
Tricking off the rotting strip that we’ve been
     D MajorD
trudging under

D MajorD
We ducked into a dim lit room out where the river bends
G+G
And turned to walk the burning bridge that we would build
   C majorC
And crossed our hearts half hoping
   C majorC
That we could both quit smoking
   C majorC
And kick the booze and blow
   D MajorD
And one day go make something of ourselves
D MajorD
Glory came and went the night we both slipped under
D MajorD
‘Neath the row of oil slicks and ancient ugly lovers
D MajorD
Some they say the price you pay is far too much to spend
G+G
But they don’t know the cost is fair if for a while
   C majorC
It keeps your heart from crumbling

     C majorC
And we’d take what we want when we knew what we wanted
     G+G
When we wished we had something to lose
     C majorC
You were a fine young thing crammed in your tight red vinyl
 G+G
jeans
     D MajorD
I was a third rate going nowhere burning for nothing to do

D MajorD
Boredom settled in and I can’t take you sober
G+G
Strewn across the rotting strip that we’ve been building
D MajorD
over

D MajorD
‘Til nothing made its wicked way slow creeping into view
G+G
Where we could watch the burning bridge that we half built
C majorC
Across our hearts now broken
   C majorC
And we could both quit smoking
   C majorC
And kick the booze and blow
   D MajorD
And one day go make something of ourselves

     C majorC
And we’d take what we want when we knew what we wanted
     G+G
When we wished we had something to lose
      C majorC
You were a fine young thing crammed in your tight red vinyl jeans
     D MajorD
I was a third rate going nowhere burning for nothing to do

     C majorC
So we branded our hearts and we toasted the stars
     G+G
Getting wasted by the light of the moon
      G+G
you were a two bit tramp - I was a low life lying scum
     D MajorD
We were a bad lay coming undone burning for someone to use