This is tablature — fret positions rather than chord names. Wide lines scroll sideways on their own, so the page never does.
Song
The Prison
By Melissa Etheridge
From the Album "Skin"
Throughout this song,
you won't take your pinky off the third fret of the high-E string.
The chord names I put above the tablature are the names of the chords
if the pinky was not on the third fret of the high E-string.
Am Am Am Am
------3--------------3-------------3-------------3-------| --------1---1----------1---1---------1---1---------1---1-| ----2-----2-------2------2------2------2------2------2---| ---------------------------------------------------------| -0-------------0-------------0-------------0-------------| ---------------------------------------------------------|
Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Fmaj7
-------3--------------3--------------3--------------3-----| ---------1---1----------1---1----------1---1--------------| -----2-----2--------2-----2-------2------2-------2--------| -3--------------3-------------3--------------3------------| ----------------------------------------------------------| ----------------------------------------------------------|
I was
C C C C
--------3--------------3--------------3-------------3--------3-| ----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1------------------| -----2------2-------2------2-------2------2-------2-------2----| ---------------------------------------------------------------| -3--------------3--------------3--------------3-------2--------| ---------------------------------------------------------------|
high and dry like a Kansas sky If I
Am Am Am Am
------3--------------3-------------3-------------3---------3-| --------1---1----------1---1---------1---1-------------------| ----2-----2-------2------2------2------2------2---------2----| -------------------------------------------------------------| -0-------------0-------------0-------------0-----------------| -----------------------------------------------------3-------|
ached for any more I knew I'd surely die
Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Fmaj7 Fjam7
-------3--------------3--------------3--------------3-------| ---------1---1----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1-| -----2-----2--------2-----2-------2------2-------2------2---| -3--------------3-------------3--------------3--------------| ------------------------------------------------------------| ------------------------------------------------------------|
Night after night trying to get out of my skin
C Am
--------3--------------3--------------3--------------3-------| ----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1-| -----2------2-------2------2-------2------2--------2-----2---| -------------------------------------------------------------| -3--------------2--------------0---------------0-------------| -------------------------------------------------------------|
Day after lone ly day, you'd send me back
G
------3--| ---------| ---0-----| ---------| ---------| -3-------|
again
C Fmaj7
I have stood inside this prison
C Fmaj7
I have touched its stony walls
C Am
I know before you try to run
Am G
You gotta learn to crawl
C Fmaj7
I tried to leave it all behind me
C Fmaj7
I drove all night, just to drive all day
C Am
But the walls of this prison still surround me
Fmaj7 G Am
And I can't break away
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