Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse 1

Black Monday is coming around again

And it feels like a friend that just won't take a hint

'Cause it's hanging me up

And it's hanging around

And I'm feeling far too lost to feel too profound

When the tone of my voice is the loneliest sound

My heroes have all become pathetic clowns

And I'm feeling far too lost to feel too profound

Verse 2

My friend Kate, you laugh like a tidal wave

But "Charlie don't surf" on your laughter on Black Mondays

And the shadows I feel are the shadows in me

And not even your face or your beautiful smile

Or the curve of your breasts or your laughing bright eyes

Could make me believe I'm a winner tonight

When Monday morning is just out of sight

Bridge

I know a story

About a man who couldn’t see past his fingertips

To reach out and touch it

Was just too much like he needs it

And I know a woman

Who reached out to me and all she got were my barbed-wire hands

And I won't be too proud

If she can't depend on me when Black Monday starts coming around

Verse 3

My friend Kate, you are sad and beautiful

And the way I am has never been too good for us

'Cause I'm too blind to hear, and I'm too deaf to see

But I still have a voice that can call out your name

With a gut full of beer and a head full of pain

I can lie in your arms and be lovers again

And thank God Tuesday morning is just hours away

Outro

Do you know, I won't let you down?

Rest your head when I come around

Do you know, you can count on me?

Laugh out loud, I see what you see