Verse
B E F# B
When I’m wild with fear, anger and pain,
E
your voice it comes to me,
F# B
hold, hold steady and rock slow.
B
Through the winters yeah, through the summers,
E
I’ve lost friends, I’ve lost teachers, lovers,
E B
they’re gone, gone, gone, but you won’t go.
[Chorus]
B E
What a day, what a time, what a long cold night,
F# B
you gotta hold, hold steady and rock slow.
B E
I’m ’a tell no lies, hey, the 45 king he only plays 45s,
F# B
and the only coca-cola, boys, is a Mexican coke.
[Bridge]
G#m
They came down they were bigger than we were you know,
E
somebody’s cousin was waving a pistol, well,
F#
you stepped up hit him in his mouth you said:
F#
“Go on put that toy back in its cereal box”.
[Verse 2]
B
You had a mother on the street, father inside,
E
uncle was a veteran, yeah, something wasn’t right with him,
F# B
I caught him looking at me from across the room and it shivered my spine.
B
Yeah but you had a strength, you had a compass,
E
you weren’t scared of nobody yeah, you took all comers
F# B
and the kids that were weaker than you, well, you treated 'em kind.
[Chorus]
B E
What a day, what a time, what a long cold night,
F# B
you gotta hold, hold steady and rock slow.
B E
I’m ’a tell no lies, hey, the 45 king he only plays 45s,
F# B
and the only coca-cola, boys, is a Mexican coke.
[Interlude]
B E F# B
[Verse 3]
B
Well, they said you lost your mind
E
but it was more like something ate it out from the inside
F# B
and you walked through the streets like a ghost with hollowed out eyes.
B
Kids, see you comin’ they cross the street,
E
mothers all told 'em not to speak to you
F# B
and you didn’t recognize your own friends, yeah; when some of them tried.
B
But when you were 11 and I was 10,
E
you know, I learned everything that I needed to know then from you
F# B
and to this day man I’m still tryin’ to be like you in my mind.
[Chorus]
B E
What a day, what a time, what a long cold night,
F# B
you gotta hold, hold steady and rock slow.
B E
I’m ’a tell no lies, hey, the 45 king he only plays 45s,
F# B
and the only coca-cola, boys, is a Mexican coke.
[Outro]
B B B B
B
Here come those street lights on, and we’re going home.
B
Here come those street lights on, and we’re going home.
B
Here come those street lights on, and we’re going home.
B
Here come those street lights on, and we’re going home.
B
Here come those street lights on, and we’re going home.
B
Here come those street lights on, and we’re going home.
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