Chords for Ani DiFranco - Lifeboat

All right! _ _ _ _ _
Not bad, not bad.
_ _ I thought, for sure, you know I usually play places less black and carpeted.
_ _ And you know, these big splendid reverberant rooms with like, you know, hundreds of people as your backup,
and still people don't sing so much.
_ _ You were the best.
I couldn't believe it.
I didn't expect it.
[Gm] _ _
I thought, oh no, look at them, they're gonna be all self-conscious like me.
_ _ _ But you're born folks, so _ _ _ good.
Okay, well, [Eb] _ _ [C] _ I [F] don't know. _
_ [Gm] _ _ _ [Eb] So I've been [Bb] working on this record for [F] fricking ever, it seems.
[Gm] _ _
_ [Eb] _ A baby [Bb] _ _ [F] slows _ _ [Gm] _ time [Eb] down, _ [Bb]
or speeds it [F] up so fast that it feels [Gm] like it's really [Eb] slow.
Or the other way around.
[Bb] I don't know.
[F] But it's hard to get anything done.
_ _ [Eb] _ I've [Bb] been _ sort of [F] alternating playing with [G] my three-year-old and [Eb] mixing these [Bb] songs _ _ [F] _
for a [Gm] while.
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _
_ [Bb] So, _ [F] _ _ [Gm] _
thing is, I don't know if [Ebm] I know how to play them.
[Bb] I know how to mix [F] them right now, _ [Gm] but_
_ [Eb] _ _ _
[Bb] _ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ [Gm] _
Every [Eb] time I open my [Bb] mouth, I take [F] off my clothes.
[G] _ _ [Eb] And I'm raw and frostbitten [Bb] from being [F] exposed. _
[G] I got red [Eb] scabby hands [C] and purple [F] scabby feet.
[G] And you can smell [Eb] me coming [Bb] from halfway [F] down the street.
_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] And I remember that old [Eb] motel, had quite the [Bb] smooth, where I'd [F] go use the phone.
[G] Between the donut [Eb] shop and the pizza parlor, [F] where I'd learn to live alone. _
[Gm] Sweet sixty, [Eb] _ smiling, [Bb] my way out [F] any jam.
_ [Gm] Learning the [Eb] ways of the world, oh [Bb] my.
[C] Learning the ways [F] of man, [Eb] oh. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And I didn't really want a baby.
[Bb] And I guess that I [F] had a choice.
[Gm] But I just let it [Eb] grow inside me.
[Bb] It's persistent [F] little voice.
And [G] I guess I got [Eb] her off and running.
And [Bb] then run off [F] is what she did.
[Gm] And that's [Ebm] part of what I think about.
[Bb] I think [F] about that kid, oh.
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] So now there's [Eb] nothing left to wish [Bb] upon, except [F] the passing cars.
[G] The cacophony [Eb] of city [Bb] lights is [F] drowning out the stars.
[G] This park bench [Eb] is a lifeboat, [Bb] and the rest a [F] big dark sea.
[Gm] And I'm [Eb] just gonna lie here, [Bb] till something comes and [F] finds me.
[Eb] Oh, oh, _ oh. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] Yeah, I've got that [Eb] tired old face, [Gm] still grinning [Bb] most of the [F] time.
[G] Just cause I [Eb] don't have a better [F] way to express what's on it's mind.
And I've got this [Eb] running _ [C] monologue, entertaining in [F] it's outrage.
[G] And I've got the [Eb] air of an [Bb] animal, been [F] living in a cage, oh.
[Eb] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] Yes, yes, every time [Eb] I open my [Bb] mouth, I take [F] off my clothes. _
[G] And I'm [Eb] running cross bitten [Bb] from being [F] exposed.
_ [G] I got [Eb] red scabby hands, [Bb] and purple [F] scabby feet.
[G] And you can smell [Eb] me coming [Bb]
from halfway down [F] the street.
[Eb] Oh, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ oh, oh. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _ [N] _ _