FAST AS I CAN James McMurtry N.C. A He was a drinking man with a guitar problem E B Didn't have a dollar to his name E A He didn't seem to mind that all that often E B He mostly took whatever came A B And if it came too late, or it came to nothing E A He'd swear beneath his breath E EsuEsus4 There's gotta be something to it E Esus4 E There's gotta be something to it She lost her mind and she never missed it Folks all said she'd never learn She'd take the path of least resistance Right to the point of no return Apprehended on occasion, got off easy every time Said there's gotta be something to it, something to it Don't know why else you'd wanna, put yourself through it Chorus B E B E Well, the nights are gettin' colder, restless as the wind B E A B A E I'll be comin' over, fast as I can, fast as I can Well, he had some lines, but he never used them She didn't need much talkin' to And he thought he'd died and gone to Houston By the time the dawn burned off the dew And it lit right up, like Roman candles, like fire and gasoline And there must have been something to it, something to it Didn't mess around, they had to get right to it Repeat Chorus So for a while they carried on like rabbits They''d disappear for days and nights You might say they learned, each other''s habits You might say that became their life And life wasn''t long, life wasn''t easy Life wasn''t cheap, life wasn''t fair And there might have been something to it, something to it Repeat Chorus Twice Esus4 - 022200