Difficulty
Intermediate πͺ
Rate for accuracy
🎸
Key: G
Dadd4/F# Cadd9
e|---3---| e|---3---|
B|---3---| B|---3---|
G|---0---| G|---0---|
D|---0---| D|---2---|
A|---x---| A|---3---|
E|---2---| E|---x---|
Intro:
G Dadd4/F# Dsus2 D Cadd9
G Dadd4/F# Dsus2 D Cadd9
Verse 1:
G D/F# Cadd9
I can only sing it loud
D/F# G
Always try to sing it clear
D/F# Cadd9 D/F#
What the hell are we all doing here?
Verse 2:
G D/F#
Making too much of nothing
Cadd9 D/F# G
Or creating one unholy mess
D/F# Cadd9 D/F#
An unfair study in survival
I guess
Pre-Chorus:
Em Am
But it always comes down
G
To what to do
D/F#
When it's all around you
Chorus:
G Dadd4/F# D/F#
And this tightwire act
Cadd9 G D/F#
Leaving us here for dead to news of the world
Cadd9 D/F# G
And liquor piles up ahead
D/F# Cadd9
Dodging those with words of power
D/F# G
Forever on their breath
Dadd4/F# Am
When the quality of life gets tripped up
C
And strangled like death
D/F# C
It seems it's getting harder out there
Am G
Especially without time enough to see
Solo:
Dadd4/F# D/F# Cadd9
G Dadd4/F# D/F# Cadd9
G
Verse 3:
D/F# Cadd9 D/F# G
True to life is another hangover
G D/F# Cadd9 D/F# G
True to life is more and more politics
G D/F# Cadd9 D/F# G
True to life is always having to look over your shoulder
G D/F# Cadd9 D/F#
True to life is assembly-line sickness
Pre-Chorus:
Em Am
But it always comes down
G
To what to do
D/F#
When it's all around you
Chorus:
G Dadd4/F# D/F#
And this tightwire act
Cadd9 G D/F#
Leaving us here for dead to news of the world
Cadd9 D/F# G
And liquor piles up ahead
D/F# Cadd9
Dodging those with words of power
D/F# G
Forever on their breath
Dadd4/F# Am
When the quality of life gets tripped up
C
And strangled like death
D/F# C
It seems it's getting harder out there
Am G
Especially without time enough to see
Outro:
G Dadd4/F# Dsus2 D Cadd9
G Dadd4/F# Dsus2 D Cadd9
G Dadd4/F# D/F# Cadd9
G Dadd4/F# D/F# Cadd9
G Dadd4/F# Dsus2 D Cadd9 G
Song History
Published: August 22, 2022
Last Updated: September 10, 2025