Running Out Of Lies Chords by Johnnie Taylor

_ [E] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [C#m] _ I'm [E] tired of lying, _ _ _ _ _ _ peeping [A] and _ _ hiding _ _ in _ low [E] class [C#] places.
[G#] _ _
_ _ _ Oh, [A] I'm so tired, baby. _ _
_ _ [B] I'm tired of _ _ [E] worrying, _ _ _ _ [G] whenever [A] I come home late. _ _ _
_ _ With your [E] lipstick traces, _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] oh [A] yes I am late. _ _ _ _ _
_ You [C#m] can rest _ assured, my woman's no fool.
_ [F#m] She can tell I've been loving you.
_ [C#m] _
Stealing your love is getting harder and harder.
[F#m] The [A] excuses I've been giving _ [B] just won't hold water. _ _
I'm running out [C#m] of lies, [B] _ [E] lies, _ lies.
It's getting [A] hard to think of an _ alibi.
[C#m] Running out of [B] lies, _ _ _ [E] lies, lies.
It's getting [A] hard to think of an _ alibi.
_ [C#m] _ _ _
[F#m] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[B] You [C#m] say [E] goodbye, _ _ _ _ _ _
I've _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ got too [B] many [E] _ _ _
alibis. _ _ _ _
_ Oh, [A] yeah. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ I'm [E] spreading myself, _ _ _ _ _ _
I'm spreading [A] myself a little too thin. _ _ _ _ _
_ [C#m] Trying to do [E] the _ job, _ _ _ _ _ of too [A] _ many men. _ _ _ _ _
You can [C#m] _ rest assured, my _ woman's no fool.
[F#m] She can tell just as good I've been loving you.
_ [C#m] _ Stealing your love is getting harder and harder.
The [A] excuses I've been giving [B] just won't hold water. _ _ _
I'm running out [C#m] of _ [B] lies, _ [E] lies, lies.
It's getting [A] hard [F#] to think of an _ alibi.
[C#m] Running out of lies, [B] _ _ _ [E] lies, lies.
_ [A] It's getting hard to think of an _ alibi.
My [E] woman ain't no fool, y'all.
_ _ _ _ _ _
She [A] can tell _ _ just _ as good [Bm] I've been out with somebody [E] else.
[Bm] _
_ You know a lot of times [E] _
I don't want to [A] talk about it. _
_ _ _ And I try, I try [C#m] to get it off of my mind.
_ [G#m] _ But then my [E] conscience, you know everybody's got a [A] conscience. _ _
My conscience gets [E] a bother. _ _
And when I try to go to sleep at night,
_ _ it seems like to me I can hear my conscience say,
shame, shame, shame, shame, shame. _ _ _
You ought to be ashamed of yourself. _
You know you got a good woman, and you ought to treat [A] her right. _ _
_ _ [Em] And I, I made a deal with my conscience,
and [E] if my conscience didn't bother me,
_ _ then I sure wouldn't bother my conscience.
But [A] every night, man, _
[Em] _ _ they come around to me and tell me,
[E] shame, _ _ you, [Em] _ [A] _ _
you know you've been [A] wrong.
Yes, you have.
A lot of fellas out there have been wrong.
You ought to go to your [E] babe and tell her, honey,
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ I'm [A] sorry _ _ _ for taking you through all of these changes.
[E] _ _ _
I'm sorry.
_ [G#] _
_ [F#] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
I'm sorry that I [C#m] did you wrong.
[B] _ _ _ [E] I'm sorry that I broke your [A] heart, baby. _ _
And it seems like to me I'm running out of [C#m] _ love.
[B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
It's [A] getting cold in here.
I'm running out of _ [C#m] love. _ _
[B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C#m] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [N] _ _