Passing Through A Screen Door

[Verse 1]
Eb5                    Eb/G
Cigarette smoke dances back in the window
    Ab5            C5          Bb5
And I  can see the haze on the dome light
    Eb5                   Eb/G
I'm conjuring ghosts on a forty hour ride home
    Ab5                          C5           Bb5
And they keep asking me what I'm doing with my   life
         Ab5           Bb5                 C5
While my cousins go to bed with their wives
    Ab5               Bb5          F5
I'm feeling like I've fallen behind

[Verse 2]
          Eb5
Well, the highway won
    Eb/G                         Ab5
I'm listening to traffic reports one on one
       C5        Bb5
Coming quietly undone
      Eb5
I was born to run
 Eb/G
Away from anything good
     Ab5
An escape artist's son
             C5             Bb5
Sun drenched pavement in my blood
    Ab5                Bb5           F5
The first thing that I do when I walk  in
   Ab5           Bb5             B5
Is find a way out   for when shit  gets bad,
and

[Chorus]
C5        Bb5        Ab5
I've been looking for
Eb5                C5     Eb/G                Ab5     Bb5
Tears in the screen  door (Tears in the screen   door)
C5        Bb5        Ab5
I've been waiting for
 Eb5         C5    Eb/G        Ab5
Another disaster (Another disaster)

[Interlude]
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| Ab5 - - - | - - - - | C5   - - Bb5 | - - - - |

[Verse 3]
         Eb5
Well I'm terrified
       Eb/G
Like a kid in the sixties
Ab5
Staring at the sky
C5              Bb5
Waiting for the bomb to fall
         Eb5
And it's all a lie
          Eb/G
What they say about stability
   Ab5
It scares me sometimes
    C5        Bb5            F5
The emptiness I  see in my eyes

[Verse 4]
                 Eb/G                     Ab5
And all the kids'    names I've ever liked
            Bb5
Are tied to tragedy
F5                    Eb/G                     Ab5
  And I don't want my children growing up to be
             B5
Anything like  me

[Chorus]
C5        Bb5        Ab5
I've been looking for
Eb5                C5     Eb/G                Ab5     Bb5
Tears in the screen  door (Tears in the screen   door)
C5        Bb5        Ab5
I've been waiting for
 Eb5         C5    Eb/G        Ab5
Another disaster (Another disaster)

[Post-Chorus]
    Eb/G          Ab5              Bb5
And I   was kinda hoping you'd stay
Ab5          Bb5             C5
I  was kinda hoping you'd stay 

[Break]
Bb5 Ab5 Eb/G Ab5         C5
                I keep a flashlight
Bb5      Ab5
   And a small knife
       Eb/G            Ab5
In the corner of my bed   stand
         C5
I keep a flashlight
Bb5        Ab5
   And the train times
                 Eb/G
But you wouldn't understand
                Ab5
How could you understand?

[Bridge]
      Eb5                Ab5
Jesus Christ, I'm twenty six
           C5                  Ab5
All the people I graduated with
             Eb5
All have kids
              Ab5
All have wives
            C5                       Ab5
All have people who care if they come   home at night
            C5                Bb5
Well, Jesus Christ, did I fuck   up?

[Chorus]
C5        Bb5        Ab5
I've been looking for
Eb5                C5     Eb/G                Ab5     Bb5
Tears in the screen  door (Tears in the screen   door)
C5        Bb5        Ab5
I've been waiting for
 Eb5         C5    Eb/G        Ab5
Another disaster (Another disaster)

[Outro]
    Eb/G          Ab5              Bb5
And I   was kinda hoping you'd stay
Eb/G          Ab5              Eb5 Bb5
I   was kinda hoping you'd stay
Ab5          Bb5              Eb5
I  was kinda hoping you'd stay