Prison

The Prison

By Melissa Etheridge

From the Album "Skin"

Throughout this song,

you won't take your pinky off the third fret of the high-E string.

The chord names I put above the tablature are the names of the chords

if the pinky was not on the third fret of the high E-string.

Am Am Am Am

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Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Fmaj7

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I was

C C C C

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high and dry like a Kansas sky If I

Am Am Am Am

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ached for any more I knew I'd surely die

Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Fjam7

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Night after night trying to get out of my skin

C Am

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Day after lone ly day, you'd send me back

G

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again

C Fmaj7

I have stood inside this prison

C Fmaj7

I have touched its stony walls

C Am

I know before you try to run

Am G

You gotta learn to crawl

C Fmaj7

I tried to leave it all behind me

C Fmaj7

I drove all night, just to drive all day

C Am

But the walls of this prison still surround me

Fmaj7 G Am

And I can't break away