Escalator
Luke Patchen Montgomery The intro is a strummed C while adding and dropping a
few notes looking a little something like this
x-0-0-0-0
x-1-1-1-0
x-0-0-0-0
x-2-3-2-0
x-3-3-3-3
x-x-x-x-x
C
G
Don't mean a thing if you don't want it
to
F
C G
Another three day weekend spent
inside
Bb
F
C
G F G
to admit I have a
problem means that I would have to lie again
C G
Working my second or third marriage
F
C G
then she finally kicked me out the
door
Bb
F
C
G F G F G
funny thing, I don't remember what she left me for again, again
(chorus)
G
C
G
I'm in desperate need (desperate need) sometimes
G
C G
Cuz sometimes I feel ( cuz I feel my
life)
G
Am Em F C
is like an escalator going up and down
G
and finally get nowhere
and when the song is on the radio
I love to get
all lost inside the music
the rhythm and the melody do something to me head again
don't mean a thing if you don't want it to
I've
abandoned everyone who used to love me
if I lived up to their expectations I
wonder what would be again, again
(chorus)
solo over verse
(chorus)
bridge - break (or whatever you want to call
it)
chords used
Am
x02210
F7
x03210
Am6
x04210
Am F7 Am6
Am
there is beauty here
F7
when the sky is
clear
Am6 F7
I look at the stars at night
Am
they shine just like me
F7
no
one else can
see
Am6 F7
luminosity of mine no no no
Am
well I can't help
it
F7
I can't help
it
Am6 F7
This is just the way I am
Am
I can't help it
F7
I can't help
it
Am6 G
Please have pity on this man
G
C G
I'm in desperate need (desperate need)
sometimes
G
C G
cuz sometimes I feel (cuz I feel) my
life
G
C G
I'm in desperate need (desperate need)
sometimes
G
C G
cuz sometimes I feel (cuz I feel) my
life
G
C
G
I'm in desperate need (desperate need
sometimes)
C
G
(cuz I feel my life)
G
is like an escalator
Am Em
F
C
going up and down
Am Em
F C
going up and down
Am Em
F C
going up and
down
G C
and finally get nowhere, yeah