(intro 4x)  C Em F 

C          Em                      F
    Just a minute 'fore you leave, girl,
C          Em                           F
    just a minute 'fore you touch the door.
C       Em                              F
    What is it that you’re tryin' to achieve, girl?
C          Em                               F
    Do you think we can talk about it some more?
                     Dm
    You know, the streets are filled with vipers,
           Dm
    who’ve lost all ray of hope,
     G
    you know, it’s not even safe no more
    G7
    in the palace of the pope.
C               Em            F      C              Em               F
    Don’t fall apart on me tonight,  I just don’t think that I can handle it.
 C          Em           F       Dm                 Em
Don’t fall apart on me tonight, yesterday’s just a memory,
   F                          G            G7
tomorrow’s never what it’s supposed to be, and I need you, yeah.
C    Em                              F
    Come over here from over there, girl,
C   Em                      F
    sit down here, you can have my chair.
C     Em                      F
    I can’t see us goin’ anywhere, girl,
        C                    Em                 F
    the only place open is a 1000 miles away and I can’t take you there.
      Dm
    I wish that I’d been a doctor,
     Dm
    maybe I’d’ve saved some life that’d been lost,
G
    maybe I’d’ve done some good in the world
G7
    'stead of burnin’ every bridge I crossed.

C     Em                       F
    I ain't too good at conversation, girl,
C                     Em           F
    so you might not know exactly how I feel.
        C                        Em                    F
    But if I could, I’d bring you to the mountain top, girl,
C       Em                              F
    and build you a house made out of stainless steel.
       Dm
    But it’s like I’m stuck inside this painting,
            Dm
    that’s a-hangin’ in the Louvre,
          G
    my throat starts to tickle and my nose itches,
            G7
    but I know that I can’t move.
C               Em            F
    Don’t fall apart on me tonight,
C              Em                 F
 I just don’t think that I could handle it,
 C           Em           F
don’t fall apart on me tonight.
Dm              Em
    yesterday’s gone, but the past lives on.
F                        G                  G7
    tomorrow's just one step beyond, and I need you, yeah.
     F                             C
    Who are these people that are walkin’ towards you ?
             F                           C
    Do you know them, or will there be a fight?
                F                   C
    With their humorless smiles so easy to see through,
             F                                 C
    can they tell you what’s wrong from what’s right ?
        F              C
    Or do you remember St. James St.
      F                         C
    where you blew Jackie P.'s mind,
               F                            C
    he was so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet
         F                     G          G7
    and laid his life on the         line.

( C Em F ) (2x)

C         Em                              F
    Let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl,
             C                    Em                 F
    no more booby traps and bombs,      no more decadence and charms,
    C        Em                  F
    no more affection that’s misplaced, girl,
C            Em                       F
    no more mud-caked creatures lyin’ in your arms.
Dm
     What about that millionaire
              Dm
    with the drumsticks in his pants,
                  G
    he looked so baffled and so bewildered,
             G7
    when he played and we didn’t dance.
C               Em            F
    Don’t fall apart on me tonight,
C      Em                          F
    I just don’t think that I can handle it.
 C          Em           F
Don’t fall apart on me tonight,
 Dm                 Em
yesterday’s just a memory,
   F                          G
tomorrow’s never what it’s supposed to be,
       G7                 G          G7
and I need you, yeah, you, ah, I need you!

( C Em F ) (10x)