Piano Intro is a repeated Bb
Intro: Bbmag x8
Bbmag Bb#5 Bb6 Bb#5 Bbmag
Fingers blistered from the nightly scratching at the window which won't open
Bb#5 Bb6
far enough to let air in.
(Bb6) Emaj
The house wins.
Bbmag
Oh the house always wins.
Bbmag Bb#5 Bb6 Bb#5 Bbmag
Feral cats are screaming at the clouds beneath the window with the crack so
Bb#5 Bb6
small that nothing gets within.
(Bb6) Emaj
The house wins.
Bbmag
Oh the house always wins.
F#maj Emaj
You don't have to be alone to be lonely,
Bb
You might as well give in.
Bbmag x4
Bbmag Bb#5 Bb6 Bb#5 Bb
Telephones are howling at the cats out in the alley and the window offers
Bb#5 Bb6
nothing in the din.
(Bb6) Emaj
The house wins.
Bbmag
Oh the house always wins.
Bbmag Bb#5 Bb6 Bb#5
Clouds uncage the car alarms to chase the cats and telephones.
Bbmag Bb#5 Bb6
Fingers rake and rasp away their skin.
(Bb6) Emaj
The house wins.
Bbmag
Oh the house always wins.
F#maj Emaj
You don't have to be alone to be lonely,
Bbmag
You might as well give in.
F#maj Emaj
Yeah you don't have to be alone to be lonely,
Bbmag
You might as well give in.
Bbmag x2
Gmaj - Emaj - Bb x2
Gmaj - Emaj - Amaj - F#maj x2
Gmaj - Emaj - Amaj - Bmaj
Piano on Bb x2
Bbmag Bb#5 Bb6 Bb#5 Bb Bb#5
Ice age upon catastrophic ice age of selection and only one result has
Bb6
trickled in...
(Bb6) Emaj
The house wins.
Bbmag
Oh the house always wins.
Bbmag Bb#5 Bb6 Bb#5 Bb
If evil were a lesser breed than justice after all these years the righteous
Bb#5 Bb6
would have freed the world of sin.
(Bb6) Emaj
The house wins.
Bbmag
Oh the house always wins.
F#maj Emaj
You don't have to be alone to be lonely,
Bbmag
You might as well give in.
F#maj Emaj
You don't have to be alone to be lonely,
Bbmag
You might as well give in.
F#maj Emaj
You don't have to be sick to be dying
Bbmag
You might as well give in.
F#maj Emaj
You don't have to have lost to be lost.
Bbmag
Oh give in.
F#maj Emaj
You don't have to be alone to be lonely,
Bbmag
You might as well give in.
NOTES: On the verse immediately following the solo section, you may want to hold Bb
as the primary chord until "the house wins". This makes it more true to the song.
