Chords for Don Dokken - I Keep Saying It's Over (5 of 5)

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_ _ _ _ _ If you look at [Ab] the Monkees, which was like silliness at its epitome, and [B] then music started
to get more, you know, you had to be a better [Eb] musician.
It went from the Monkees to Rush, [A] you know, [Eb] really talented guys, deep, [Ab] very involved,
ELP, yes, but the music really went existential, you know, and got up here.
And then it went to the beefy, heavy side, Sabbath, Purple, Thin Lizzy, and all this
stuff, and Sabbath, and then it branched out to fun again, going back toward the Monkees land.
Not to ditz Van Halen, but Davey Lee Roth was like a circus leader.
Here's Davey Lee Roth, up to them, people just stood there with a serious face, even
[D] like Leonard Skinner, and they sang, and you told the story, [E] and go on to the next song.
All of a sudden, here's some guy in [D] striped yellow [Bb] pants doing back flips.
They kind of [Dbm] injected this, let's take the seriousness out of rock a little bit, and
let's make it fun, because Davey was like, I'm not a great singer, but I'm a performer.
He took [Gb] that, and then it went [Em] back down to silly again.
There was [Gb] bands coming out, you know, the hair's this big, [Em] you know, and the makeup
got off the charts and the spandex, and it all got, the music became unimportant.
And now it's like, then the grunge thing came in, serious musicians again.
[A] Maybe not prolific musicians, they knew maybe three or four basic chords.
I always loved when they said, you know, we [B] don't do solos anymore, these bands, that's not cool.
I said, no, you don't do solos because you can't.
You don't know how to play a solo.
Now it's gone that cycle again, where people proficient in their talent can sing, harmonize,
arrange, play solos.
I see my kids, they had the NSYNC poster when my daughter was 12, and the next week I went
to buy her an NSYNC record, and she's like, oh, [Bb] boring.
What do you want?
Tool.
I was like, what, a tool?
It's kind of dark.
[Gb] You know, [Em] Soundgarden, Nirvana.
And now, [Bb] I had to laugh, my son, like two years ago, and he's 20, he said, yeah, I got
this new thing on the internet, it was this really cool record, and it was Zeppelin or something.
He's like, you ever heard of Led Zeppelin?
I'm like, it rings a bell.
Vaguely.
[C] So they're all, you say, [Bb] people are getting turned on [E] to 80s, Dawkin, bands, you know,
great bands like Scorpions and all these bands that mean, they're coming to the concerts.
I looked, I saw the Mama Papa, I've been seeing the Mama Papa thing a lot.
It's like you see a kid, 9, 10, I have a picture of it, a girl, she was 11, it was the mom
and the dad, and they're all standing in front of the road, and I was singing, and they all
had Dawkin t-shirts on.
But the coolest thing was, the 9 year old, the 10 year old, the 12 year old, the 14 year
old were singing the words to a song I wrote 27 years ago.
I'm just singing, going, and I actually looked at the kid during the show, and I went, how
do you like, like this, I go, you know, like, you know, 10, he goes, 8, like this.
It was kind of cute.
And he knew all the words.
[Eb] And I went, well, there it is.
Yeah, man.
[Gb] I mean.
That must make you feel good.
Yeah, I kept, I keep saying it's over, it's over, it's over.
And I tell the missus, this is my last tour, honey, I promise.
I'm just gonna go out for one big hurrah and [D] get my ego stroked, and I'll come home.
Doesn't happen.
Then all of a sudden it's like, you wanna go on tour and do some arenas?
Yeah, okay.
I just [Ab] wanna see, you know, those girls like, [Em] looking at [Bb] me like I'm a hot dog one more time.
Well, you can have your dreams.
Yeah, that's truly what, I have to laugh about it.
[C] I'm 55, and there's a 24-year-old walking, my daughter's 21.
And they'll go like this, [Gb] give me a wink, wink, and I'll like, I'm gonna slap you.
I'm gonna tell your parents.
If your mother and father knew you're looking at me with that [Bm] look, I'm 21.
I'm like, I'm 55.
And they're like, and I say it a lot, and they'll go, [Bb] no, you're not.
I'll say, how old's your dad?
36.
How old's your mom?
35.
40.
And I'm like, I rest my case.
But, it's all the excitement and all that.
But it's been different now.
I think the days of debauchery's gone.
The cool thing about in 2000, unfortunately, except for ice and crack, that's a huge problem.
But the cocaine thing, the sexual prolific contests that Gene Simmons invented, that's all gone.
[D] You know, Gene [B] brags about his thousands of women he's slept with.
I'm like, so you're [Ab] bragging that you're a pig.
Right.
And he's like, hey, I'm the biggest pig of all the pigs.
That's his claim to fame.
And I guess there was a point when we thought that was cool to be the biggest pig you could be.
And then you grow up, and some of us don't.
All that I've noticed in the last Scorpions tour we did, White Snake, even the Poison
tour with the success of Bret Michaels, _
[B] the whole debauchery, chicks in miniskirts and
the six inch heels, it's not there.
It's not backstage.
[Bb] It's kind of [Db] funny.
Everybody's walking around with their kids, you know, [Eb] family hour.
We're like flipping burgers.
We're bragging [C] about my sauce [B] is better than your sauce.
It's all change.
It's [F] more about making music.
It's great.
Yeah.
Everybody's talking about what rehab did you go to?
I went to this rehab.
I went to that rehab.
Who's your rehab counselor?
Ah, his name's Fred.
You should talk to my rehab guy.
Everybody's [E] straight.
Everybody's [B] bragging.
Everybody's like, if you need any help, Bobby Dahl came to [Bb] me and said, hey, Don, I heard
you're cleaned up now.
I said, well, best I can be.
If you need any support, you know, come see me.
And I'm like, Bobby Dahl's telling me he'll give me [Gb] support to stay straight and narrow.
And 10 years ago, I think him and I were like laying on the [Bb] ground at the Rainbow looking
[Cm] for our keys, both of us.
You find my keys, I'll find [Gb] yours.
I'm real down on drugs.
I never did [F] drugs in the 80s.
So it's my only claim to [Ab] fame.
I think everybody's got their books and the Mickey Six is about [B] their heroin overdoses.
And [Ab] I didn't do drugs.
I wasn't into cocaine and stuff like that.
It just never appealed to me.
I drank a lot of Jack Daniels.
[Gb] But I wasn't into the whole drug thing.
I didn't get it.
You know?
Because everybody just looked like they were like scared or something.
[B] Eyes wide open.
[Ab] Your pain looked like that?
It didn't make any sense to me.
[B] Well, anyway, times are good.
It's 2008 and I'm still doing it.
You know?
I'm limping along.
The last couple of years, I've been really busy.
Being the [E] producer, the writer, the singer, [B] trying to be a father, it hasn't been easy.
I was pretty worn out.
Still worn out, but you know, it's cool.
It's either that or just remember that macaroon cheese days and Top Ramen [G] and hot dogs.
And then all of a sudden you're like, I can do this.
I can do it.
Things are good. _ _
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