Sad Screaming Old Man chords by Jeffrey Lewis
Guitar chords with lyrics
Key: Am
Intro:
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Verse:
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I'm used to apartments with walls that are weak
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Sometimes I'd hear it all, if my neighbours must speak
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But this recent apartment and bedroom I got
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Started out seeming decent, more boring than not
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For two or three years nothing happened at all
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There was an old man next door that I would see in the hall
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He shuffled politely, wears an old suit
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You know, a standard old geezer; a quiet old coot
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He used to seem normal but then all at once
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He started these nocturnal groanings and grunts
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It's hard to get used to, it gives me the creeps
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Pretty much every night now he screams when he sleeps
Chorus:
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Dark night of our souls,
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Dark night of our hearts
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Dropping down the bottomless hole
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I just need to get some sleep,
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I don't know when I might begin,
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But I don't want another minute
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In this same old story purgatory
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Stop the torture old man and please
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Don't be myself from the future!
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If it was a dog bark or a screaming infant
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I'd probably be fine, back asleep in an instant
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But picture me lying there alone in my bed
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When this old man just lets out these shrieks near my head
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And now every night at like three in A.M.
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I get woken up by this miserable mayhem
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Who's being dismembered; what the hell is wrong?
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I'm scared that he'll send me insane before long
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And it makes me afraid, just to be me like I am
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'cause it could be my fatal moments screaming old man
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Tell me what did he do in his youth for this torture?
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And what if I'm him and it's true that he's me in the future !
Chorus:
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Dark night of our souls,
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Dark night of our hearts
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Dropping down the bottomless hole
Am Dm
I just need to get some sleep,
Em Am
I don't know when I might begin,
Am Dm
But I don't want another minute
Em Am
In this same old story purgatory
N.C.
Stop the torture old man and please
N.C. Am Dm Em Am
Don't be myself from the future!
Verse:
Am Dm Em Am
I'm used to apartments with walls that are weak
Am Dm Em Am
Sometimes I'd hear it all, if my neighbours must speak
Am Dm Em Am
But this recent apartment and bedroom I got
Am Dm Em Am
Started out seeming decent, more boring than not
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But now it's like trying to sleep in a Guantanamo cell block
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Or a hospital hell hole for some horrible shell-shock
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Or a Medieval dungeon with sadistic conditions
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Where some pitiful someone is getting whipped while you listen
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And you know in the dark, when your mind is just spinning
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And you get visions of weird things with no ends or beginnings?
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I just thought for a bit and then he's screaming some more
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And I'm scared that he's me and I'm the him from before
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I guess that some paranoid fantasy sci-fi scenarios
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May seem dumb in the daylight but for now, oh there he goes:
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Dark night of our souls,
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Dark night of our hearts
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Dropping down the bottomless hole
Am Dm
I just need to get some sleep,
Em Am
I don't know when I might begin,
Am Dm
But I don't want another minute
Em Am
In this same old story purgatory
N.C.
Stop the torture old man and please
N.C. Am Dm Em Am
Don't be myself from the future!
Outro:
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"Well you know Jeffrey, it's true what you say,
I once was like you then I turned out this way.
I lived my own life complaining love wasn't there,
It was never enough to sacrifice for or care
And I once had a cat and one or two pals
And I would go and hang out sort of like that way you do now
But now all I can do is just scream in the darkness
The pain inside ninety years empty and heartless
If you grow seeking freedom you're a rose brief in bloom
So you know it's already leading you down the road to this room
Thought I'd get glory from war and in the dark in a trench
Then I spent forty years more just in a park on a bench
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And it's all existentially hopeless eventually
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You're just dementedly shrieking, like me like you were meant to be!
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I am sent out not as a warning, but as an acceptance
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So accept it!
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It is already written!
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It is already happening!
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You are already here!"
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