Skid Row – Wasted Time
Capo 1st 170 bpm 4/4 Strumming
[Slave to the Grind 1991]
Intro (Picking)
Bm.. Bm.... F#m.. A.... F#m A Bm.. Bm....
D.. D.... D.. D.... * F# (F#) * F# (F#)
Verse 1 (Picking)
Bm Bm F#m F#m
You and I… together in our lives…
Bm Bm * G (G)
Sacred ties would never fray…
Bm Bm F#m F#m
Then why can't I-iii let-ttt myself tell lies
Bm Bm * G (G)
and watch you die every day…
D A/C#
I think back to the times…
Bm A
when dreams were what mattered…
D A/C# Bm A
tough talking youth naiveté-eee-eee…
Pre Chorus 1
G G
You said you never let me
Bm Bm
down… but the horse stampedes
D D A A
and rages… in the name of despera-aaa-tion…
Chorus
D.. A.... Bm.. G....
Is it all… just wasted-ddd time…
D.. A....
Can you look at yourself
F#m G
when you think of what… you left behind…
D.. A.... Bm.. G....
Is it all… just wasted-ddd time…
D.. A....
Can you live with yourself
F#m G
when you think of what… you left
Interlude 1
Bm Bm Bm Bm Bm Bm * Bm (Bm)
be-eee-hind-ddd-ddd-ddd-ddd…
Verse 2
Bm Bm F#m F#m
Paranoid delusions they haunt you…
Bm Bm G G
Where's my friend I used to know…
Bm Bm F#m F#m
He's all alone… He's buried deep within a…
Bm Bm G G
carcass… searching for a soul…
D A/C# Bm A
Can you feel me inside… your heart as it's bleeding…
D A/C# Bm A
Why can't you believe you can't be loved-ddd…
Pre Chorus 2
G G
I hear you scream in
Bm Bm
agony… and the horse stampedes
D D A A
and rages… in the name of despera-aaa-tion…
Chorus
D.. A.... Bm.. G....
Is it all… just wasted-ddd time…
D.. A....
Can you look at yourself
F#m G
when you think of what… you left behind…
D.. A.... Bm.. G....
Is it all… just wasted-ddd time…
D.. A....
Can you live with yourself
F#m G
when you think of what… you left
Interlude 2
Bm A G F#m Em Em G A
be-hind-ddd-ddd-ddd-ddd… Ooo-ooo…
Bm Bm Bm Bm
Ooo-ooo-ooo-ooo…
Solo
G G Bm Bm G G Bm Bm
G G Bm Bm D D A A
D.. A/C#.... Bm.. A....
D.. A/C#.... Bm A
Ooo-ooo---
Pre Chorus 3
G G
---ooo… You said you never let me
Bm Bm
down… but the horse stampedes
D D A A
and rages… in the name of despera-aaa-tion…
Chorus
D.. A.... Bm.. G....
Is it all… just wasted-ddd time…
D.. A....
Can you look at yourself
F#m G
when you think of what… you left behind…
D.. A.... Bm.. G....
Is it all… just wasted-ddd time…
D.. A....
Can you live with yourself
F#m G
when you think of what… you left
Break
* G (G)
be-hind-ddd…
Bridge
Bm Bm
The sun will rise again…
A/C# A/C#
the earth will turn to sand…
D D E E
creation's colors seem to fade to grey…
Bm Bm
and you'll see the sickly hand of time…
A/C# A/C#
will write your final rhyme
E E
and end a memory-
B B F# F#
---yyy—yyy-yyy-yyy---
G#m G#m F# F#
---yyy-yyy-yyy-yyy…
Outro
B B
I never thought you'd let it get this
F# F# G#m G#m F# F#
far… boy-yyy-yyy-yyy-yyy…
B B
I've never thought… I've never thought you'd
F# F# G#m G#m F# F#
let it get this far-rrr… boy-yyy oh no-ooo…
B B
I've never thought… I've never thought you'd
F# F# G#m G#m * F#
let it get this far-rrr… boy-yyy no-ooo…
I've never thought you'd
let it get this far-rrr… boy-yyy…
Russian
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