Transcribed by...Jonathan Hart. the verse has no guitar, but the bass line goes: (key of ) e|-------------------------------| B|-------------------------------| G|-----------------2-------3-----| D|-------------0-----------------| A|---------1---------------------| E|-1---3-------------------------| INTRO: LYRICS: So you got the blues The evening wore out your shoes To a shuffling beat It's a colourful crowd Spray can information Cover the lonely station Checkpoint for the state of the nation So you got the blues The evening wore out your shoes On the missionbeat beat The radio drug Wayward destinations Secondhand sensations CHORUS: Take this heart Break this heart Wrap it up So you got the blues The evening wore out your shoes In the back of the cell The plug and the cord Shoulder dislocation Bruised in isolation CHORUS BRIDGE: Sleep, sleep Sleep, sleep In the eye of the storm Writing on walls Cross my heart confusion We're all looking for a new solution It's the heat of the land Swallowing sweat Say those dreams can shake me Dawn come down and save me CHORUS BRIDGE So you got the blues The evening wore out your shoes So you got the blues The evening wore out your shoes So, so you got the blues

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