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
