Terrible Thing chords by The Killers

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Intro:

Eb Eb Eb Eb



🎸 Verse 1:
    Eb             Bb                  Eb
The parking lot is rammed with shotgun pickup trucks
       Ab                               Eb
At the Jones Rubber plant where all the guys end up
Ab                                        Eb
Beer-drinking boy scouts living life like they ain't stuck
         Cm              Bb                      Ab
On these quicksand streets with their girls in a sling
          Cm             Bb                  Eb
I'm in my bedroom on the verge of a terrible thing

🎸 Verse 2:
                Eb              Bb        Eb
Around here, we all take up our cross and hang on His holy name
        Ab                                         Eb
But the cards that I was dealt will get you thrown out of the game
    Ab                                                 Eb
Hey momma, can't you see your boy is wrapped up in the strangle silk
        Cm        Bb                 Ab
Of this cobweb town where culture is king?
          Cm             Bb                  Eb
I'm in my bedroom on the verge of a terrible thing


🎸 Chorus:
           Ab    Cm                  Eb
I close my eyes     and think of the water
           Ab          Cm            Bb
Out at the Salt Creek     when I was young


🎸 Verse 3:
Eb               Bb             Eb
Down at Old Mill Park, half the town's in tow
   Ab                              Eb
To crown the Bathing Beauty of the rodeo
          Ab                                     Eb
While her mother fights back proud tears a young cowboy gives the nod
          Cm                Bb                     Ab
The chute opens, bull draws blood, and the gift is accepted by God
          Cm                Bb                     Ab
The chute opens, bull draws blood, and the gift is accepted by God
        Cm                Bb                Ab
In this barbed wire town     of barbed wire dreams
          Cm             Bb                  Eb
I'm in my bedroom on the verge of a terrible thing


🎸 Chorus:
           Ab    Cm                  Eb
I close my eyes     and think of the water
           Ab          Cm            Bb
Out at the Salt Creek     when I was young
           Ab    Cm                  Eb
I close my eyes     and think of the water
                Ab     Cm            Bb
Out at the Salt Creek     when I was young