The Prison
By Melissa Etheridge
From the Album "Skin"
Throughout this song,
you won't take your pinky off the third fret of the high-E string.
The chord names I put above the tablature are the names of the chords
if the pinky was not on the third fret of the high E-string.
Am Am Am Am
------3--------------3-------------3-------------3-------|
--------1---1----------1---1---------1---1---------1---1-|
----2-----2-------2------2------2------2------2------2---|
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-0-------------0-------------0-------------0-------------|
---------------------------------------------------------|
Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Fmaj7
-------3--------------3--------------3--------------3-----|
---------1---1----------1---1----------1---1--------------|
-----2-----2--------2-----2-------2------2-------2--------|
-3--------------3-------------3--------------3------------|
----------------------------------------------------------|
----------------------------------------------------------|
I was
C C C C
--------3--------------3--------------3-------------3--------3-|
----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1------------------|
-----2------2-------2------2-------2------2-------2-------2----|
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-3--------------3--------------3--------------3-------2--------|
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high and dry like a Kansas sky If I
Am Am Am Am
------3--------------3-------------3-------------3---------3-|
--------1---1----------1---1---------1---1-------------------|
----2-----2-------2------2------2------2------2---------2----|
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-0-------------0-------------0-------------0-----------------|
-----------------------------------------------------3-------|
ached for any more I knew I'd surely die
Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Fjam7
-------3--------------3--------------3--------------3-------|
---------1---1----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1-|
-----2-----2--------2-----2-------2------2-------2------2---|
-3--------------3-------------3--------------3--------------|
------------------------------------------------------------|
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Night after night trying to get out of my skin
C Am
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----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1-|
-----2------2-------2------2-------2------2--------2-----2---|
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-3--------------2--------------0---------------0-------------|
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Day after lone ly day, you'd send me back
G
------3--|
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---0-----|
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-3-------|
again
C Fmaj7
I have stood inside this prison
C Fmaj7
I have touched its stony walls
C Am
I know before you try to run
Am G
You gotta learn to crawl
C Fmaj7
I tried to leave it all behind me
C Fmaj7
I drove all night, just to drive all day
C Am
But the walls of this prison still surround me
Fmaj7 G Am
And I can't break away
