This is a simplified version that just gives the basic chord changes so that one can
play it through from start to finish. You?ll probably need to have a listen to get the
rhythm right. There?s some lead guitar between the verses that I have not included here
but it sounds like it?s just a matter of messing about in the Eminor blues scale. Enjoy!Only Changing Drugs
I had my stomach pumped two times my senior year
Which earned the approbation of all my plastered peers
(Band In)
Now I do my weekly bleeding at trendy AA meetings
I was a social monster, but now I serve my sponsor (w/Fill 1)
I choke out clich confessions, I suck down coffee black
I chain smoke cigarettes between handfuls of Prozac
Man am I one sober stallion, I just got my first medallion
My higher power drug me, I?m letting strangers hug me (w/Fill 1)
Now I really crave a meeting, all those soothing empty greetings
The Big Book is omniscient and I?m not self-sufficient
Dependency?s still coursing through my blood, I?m only changing drugs
Self help study, twelve step program, which hollow slogan was it?
We found serenity and Day by Day or Easy does it ?
Plant that affirmation seed, our license plate should read
Ten thousand lakes and treatment centres,
Betty Ford?s our statewide mentor (w/ Fill 1)
They say the devils in the details of this cunning, baffling habit
I poured out all my Nyquil, I flushed my Sine-aid tablets
?Don?t take others inventory,? ?Thanks for sharing your sick story
If I bluff I know they?ll call it, ?I?m Stuart, I?m an alcoholic? (w/Fill 1)
Dysfunction builds the strangest sages, quoting pointless daily phrases
The Big Book is omniscient, and I?m not self-sufficient
Dependency?s still coursing through my blood, I?m only changing drugs
(w/palm muting for the next 2 lines)
It?s a self-perpetuating business, you can?t cure a life-long sickness
Hazelden cleaned out my parents, but my stay was 14 carat
Inner peace is what we seek at fifteen hundred bucks a week
Treatment?s just a new psychosis, need and weakness through hypnosis
The Big Book is omniscient, and I?m not self-sufficient
Dependency?s still coursing through my blood, I?m only changing drugs
Outro ? G D G C F Emin FEmin
Fill 1 (add between verses w/ad lib soloing)
G 0
D 0-2
