The bitterest pill
C - Bb
- Am - G - C (2x)
G Bm
1. In
your white lace and your wedding bells,
Am
C Em D
you
look the picture of contented new wealth.
G Bm
But from the onlooking fool who believed your lies,
Em C D
I wish this grave would open
up and swallow me alive.
Am
G F
G
For the bitterest pill is hard
to swallow,
Am
G F G Am
the
love I gave hands in sad colored mocking shadows,
Bb Am - G - C
yea...h,
yeah.
G Bm
2. When the wheel of fortune
broke you fell to me,
Am
C Em
D
out
of grey skies to change my misery,
G
Bm
the
vacant spot your beating heart took its place,
Em C D
but
now I watch smoke leave my lips and fill an empty room.
Am
G F G
For the bitterest pill is hard
to swallow,
Am
G F G G7
the
love I gave hands in sad colored mocking shadows,
C Am
The bitterest pill is mine to
take,
C Bb Am
C - G
but if
I took it for 100 years I couldn't feel any more ill.
C Am
The bitterest pill is mine to take,
C
Bb Am C
but
if I took it for 100 years I couldn't feel any more ill,
Bb Am
- G - C
yea...h,
yeah.
+ C - Bb - Am - G - C
G Bm
3. Now Autumn's breeze blows
summer's leaves through my life,
Am
C Em D
twisted
and broken down, no days with sunlight.
G Bm
The dying spark you left your
mark on me,
Em - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - C D
the
promise of your kiss but with someone else.
Am
G F G
For the bitterest pill is mine
to swallow,
Am
G F G G7
the
love I gave hands in sad colored mocking shadows,
C Am
The bitterest pill is mine to
take,
C
Bb Am C
- G
but
if I took it for 100 years I couldn't feel any more ill.
C Am
The bitterest pill is mine to
take,
C Bb Am G
but
if I took it for 100 years I couldn't feel any more ill, ill, ill.
+ repeat the last four lines
+ C - Am - C - Bb - F - C ...
(orig. = capo 2nd) (The Jam)