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 week
ly bleeding at
trendy A
A 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 b
etween 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 a
nd I?m not self-sufficient
Dependency?s still
coursing through my b
lood, I?m only changing drugs
Self help study, twelve step progr
am, which hollow slogan was it?
We found serenity and
Day by Day or Easy does it ?
Plant that
affirmation s
eed, our lice
nse plate should read
Ten thousand lakes and treatment centres,
Betty Ford?s our statewide mento
r (w/ Fill 1)
They say the devils in the detail
s of this cunning, baffling habit
I poured out all my Nyqui
l, I flushed my Sine-aid tablets
?Don?t take othe
rs inventory,?
?Thanks for shar
ing your sick story
If I bluff I know they?ll cal
l it, ?I?m Stuart, I?m an
alcoholic? (w/Fill 1)
Dysfunction builds the strangest sag
es, quoting pointless daily phrases
The Big Book is omniscient,
and I?m no
t 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 busines
s, you can?t cure a life-long sickness
Hazelden cleaned out my parents, bu
t my stay was 14 carat
Inner peace is w
hat we seek at
fifteen hundred bucks
a week
Treatment?s just a new psychosis
, need and weakness through hypnosis
The Big Book is omniscie
nt, 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
