Social Distortion - Footprints on my ceiling
Standard tuning
Intro:
F, C, G, Bb F x2
Verse 1:
FC
Everybody wants a lover, nobody wants to uncover
GBbF
What may lay deep beneath a sometimes painful past
FC
Wanna go without a care, pull gardenias from her hair
GBbF
I think of a time we didn't have a care in the world
FC
Captivated by her beauty, I knew it was my life long duty
GBbF
She had all the grace and charm of a radiant queen
Chorus:
CGm
How do you talk without speaking? Yeah
BbFC
How do you hear without listening?
CGm
How do you live without feeling? Yeah
BbFC
How do you take without gi-ving?
BbF
And we keep it all inside?
Verse 2:
FC
There are footprints on my ceiling, I can't help this fucked up feeling
GBbF
Something's wrong, you ain't comin' around here no more
FC
Try to get my thoughts together, I think of a time when things were better
GBbF
This miscommunication is breakin' me down
Chorus:
CGm
How do you talk without speaking? Yeah
BbFC
How do you hear without listening?
CGm
How do you live without feeling? Yeah
BbFC
How do you take without gi-ving?
BbF
How you treat your new best friend?
Solo:
F, C, G, Bb F x6
Verse 3:
FC
Everybody wants a lover, nobody wants to uncover
GBbF
What may lay deep beneath a sometimes painful past
FC
My heart is heavy slowly sinking, I redirect my desperate thinking
GBbF
And kiss her red full lips, like I did the very first time
Chorus:
CGm
How do you talk without speaking? Yeah
BbFC
How do you hear without listening?
CGm
How do you live without feeling? Yeah
BbFC
How do you take without gi-ving?
CGm
There are footprints on my ceiling, yeah
BbFCGm
And I kept it bottled up inside, all my life
-DP