Rotting Strip chords by Crooked Fingers

Rotting Strip / Crooked Fingers

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

D
We ducked into a dim lit room out where the river bends
G
And turned to walk the burning bridge that we would build
     C
And crossed our hearts half hoping
     C
That we could both quit smoking
     C
And kick the booze and blow
     D
And one day go make something of ourselves
D

Glory came and went the night we both slipped under
D
‘Neath the row of oil slicks and ancient ugly lovers
D
Some they say the price you pay is far too much to spend
G
But they don’t know the cost is fair if for a while
     C
It keeps your heart from crumbling

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

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

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

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

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