Will Wood - Half-Decade Hangover

[Intro]
C7 D7 G

[Verse]
Em A7
Wonder how I didn’t die
C Cm G D B7 Em
This is not my life. I’m no survivor, I only happened to survive.
A7
Wonder how I sleep at night
C
Well I count pink elephants, blessings and skeletons,
D7
Down the days I have left, with one eye open
G G7
That was me screaming “bitch I am reality”
C A7
Then stumbling off to lose myself in a brown paper bag, ‘cause me and
G B7 Em Emmaj7 Em7 Em6
Sweet Evan Williams have a date down on Avenue A staving shakes scraping change till daybreak
A7
Turns out anyone can eat out the trash
D
Then wake up on the freeway mid-crash

[Chorus]
G
I was drunk
D
When I made my bed
D7
Now with the half-decade hangover
C G C7
I lay down in it
D7 G
What have I done?
D
Don’t know what I’ve said?
D7
It’s a half-decade hungover
B7 Em
Either this, in jail or dead
C
It’s a half-decade hungover
Cm G
Jesus Christ, my aching head

[Verse]
Em A7
Waste not, want not borrowed time
C Cm
Lender knows I’ve tried
G D B7
To make it right, give back my life and if not
Em
Take it ‘cause lately I’ve been thinking maybe I could
A7
Take it or leave it if I can’t at least break even then I’m leaving when
C
I been feelin’ this awful since I hit bottom then
D7
said “hand me my shovel, man, I’m going in!”
G G7
Oh brother -man, you call that recovered?
C A7
Tripped on a couple steps, and collapsed on the stairs
G B7
Broke my neck on the backs of those who I’ve hurt and scared
Em Emmaj7 Em7 Em6
Like it’s a good thing you said “you’ve got your whole life ahead”
A7
Oh great, another half a century to live to regret
D7
I’d rather be anybody else instead

[Chorus]
G
‘Cause I was drunk
D
When I made my bed
D7
Now with the half-decade hangover
C G C7
I lay down in it
D7 G
What have I done?
D
Don’t know what I’ve said?
D7
It’s a half-decade hungover
B7 Em
Either this, in jail or dead
C
It’s a half-decade hungover
Cm G
Jesus Christ, my aching head

[Bridge]

Em C7 C Cm G B Em A7 C D

G G7
Sober, but still so much still hangs over.
C C7
Please believe me when I say I’ve poured my whole past down the drain
D7 B7
Say that a second chance is a chance I can take
Em Emmaj7 Em7 Em6
But I can’t make amends for things I don’t remember
A7 B7
I can only say “I’m sorry” and occasionally pray
Em Emmaj7 Em7 Em6
Guess you’ll just have to take my word that I’ve changed
D7 D
After one thousand eight hundred twenty five days

[Chorus]
G
I was drunk
D
When I made my bed
D7
Now with the half-decade hangover
C G C7
I lay down in it
D7 G
What have I done?
D
Don’t know what I’ve said?
D7
It’s a half-decade hungover
B7 Em
Hand me my ibuprofen
C
It’s a half-decade hungover
Cm G
Jesus Christ, my aching head