Early Out The Gate

[Intro/Outro and between verses]



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 [G]                        [F]           [C]

What you're looking for is never what you find  *1

 [G]          [F]              [C]

Nothing ever seems to turn out right  *1 



[Am]                       [G]

Still running around still searching

          [F]              [C]

all these long indifferent streets

         [Am]          [G]

For your lover or some cover

    [F]                 [C]

to protect you from the heat

                [G]

That you feel inside  *2

 [F]                [G]       [C]

inflamed since you learned to cry







[G]                       [F]          [C]

Ever since you learned to walk you ran away  *1

[G]                   [F]                [C]

kept running till you couldn't feel your legs  *1



        [Am]                [G]

Now you stumble round this drunken town

     [F]             [C]

pawn shops and titty bars

        [Am]              [G]

telling tales of just how far you got

       [F]                   [C]

But they'll all know who you are

                    [G]

Yeah you're not so great  *2

            [F]   [G]        [C]

You're just early out of the gate







           [G]             [F]              [C]

there's a portrait of your mom when she was young   *1

     [G]             [F]             [C]

Her face was shining brightly as the sun   *1



    [Am]         [G]

The son who got away from her

    [F]            [C]

but came back home again

   [Am]         [G]

to find a women wrapped

               [F]              [C]

with all this love she couldn't give

                 [G]

But you know she did  *2

         [F]      [G]     [C]

You just couldn't feel it then







        [G]                      [F]           [C]

Found a birthday card from this lady I used to know   *1

        [G]                [F]            [C]

It said boy you're really starting to get old   *1



          [Am]         [G]

She's the mother of my mother

  [F]                [C]

I knew just what she meant

      [Am]            [G]

She'd been through it before

              [F]            [C]

she'd known of all of this resentment

       [G]

becomes regret  *2

       [F]     [G]         [C]

I just hadn't gotten there yet  *1



[Am]         [G]              [F][C]

Nothing ever seems to turn out right

   [Am]         [G]              [F][C]

No never, never seems to turn out right

                 [G]

So I leave it at this  *2

   [F][G]    [C]

my deepest regret