Long Slow Slide chords by Jewel

Chords with lyrics

Intro: Em, D, Em, D MajorD

verse 1:
E minorEm       D MajorD
Lights are bright in the circus
E minorEm               D MajorD
The geeks and the freaks all light cigarettes and laugh at your misery
E minorEm           D MajorD
While the weight of the curtain closing crushes your heart
E minorEm           D MajorD
The inertia of loneliness tears your flesh apart

G+G
It's a long slow slide
E minorEm
It's a long slow slide
A augmentedA
It's a long slow slide
D MajorD
Down

E minorEm
Once the neon is gone
D MajorD
There's still that golden splinter at your side
E minorEm               D MajorD
His manners are charming, but who are you fooling? You are still nobody's bride
E minorEm           D MajorD
And Bukowski's widow haunts each empty seat on the ferris wheel
E minorEm           D MajorD
As ghoulish lovers collide in a collage of kisses that they steal

G+G
It's a long slow slide
E minorEm
It's a long slow slide
A augmentedA
It's a long slow slide
D MajorD
Down

D MajorD - A augmentedA - B minorBm
D MajorD - A augmentedA - B minorBm
D MajorD - G+G - C# minorC#m
D MajorD - A augmentedA - B minorBm

E minorEm               D MajorD
And outside the window the circus crackles and lurches with rings of smoke
E minorEm               D MajorD
You laugh halfheartedly at the punchline, not realizing they've made you the joke
E minorEm              D MajorD
And inside my heart a war is raging in regions still untamed
E minorEm           D MajorD
The worst fear I can imagine is for the mystery to be named
E minorEm       D MajorD
Is for the mystery to be named

G+G
It's a long slow slide
E minorEm
It's a long slow slide
A augmentedA
It's a long slow slide

G+G
It's a long slow slide
E minorEm
It's a long slow slide
A augmentedA
It's a long slow slide
D MajorD
Down