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[G]
Which earned the approbation[C] of all my plastered peers
(Band In)
[F]Now I do my week[Emin]ly bleeding at[F] trendy A[Emin]A meetings
[D]I was a social monster, [C]but now I serve my sponsor (w/Fill 1)
[G]I choke out clich confessions[D], I suck down coffee black
[G]I chain smoke cigarettes b[C]etween handfuls of Prozac
[F]Man am I one sober[Emin] stallion, [F]I just got my[Emin] first medallion
[D]My higher power drug me, I?m[C] letting strangers hug me (w/Fill 1)
[D]Now I really crave a meeting[C], all those soothing empty greetings
[D]The Big Book is omniscient a[C]nd I?m not self-sufficient
[F]Dependency?s still [Emin]coursing through my b[D]lood, I?m only changing drugs[G]
[G]Self help study, twelve step progr[D]am, which hollow slogan was it?
[G] We found serenity and [C] Day by Day or Easy does it ?
[F]Plant that [Emin]affirmation s[F]eed, our lice[Emin]nse plate should read
[D] Ten thousand lakes and treatment centres,
[C]Betty Ford?s our statewide mento[G]r (w/ Fill 1)
[G]They say the devils in the detail[D]s of this cunning, baffling habit
[G]I poured out all my Nyqui[C]l, I flushed my Sine-aid tablets
[F]?Don?t take othe[Emin]rs inventory,?[F] ?Thanks for shar[Emin]ing your sick story
[D]If I bluff I know they?ll cal[C]l it, ?I?m Stuart, I?m an [G]alcoholic? (w/Fill 1)
[D]Dysfunction builds the strangest sag[C]es, quoting pointless daily phrases
[D]The Big Book is omniscient,[C] and I?m no[G]t self-sufficient
[F]Dependency?s still[Emin] coursing through my blood, I?[D]m only changing drugs[G]
(w/palm muting for the next 2 lines)
[C]It?s a self-perpetuating busines[B]s, you can?t cure a life-long sickness
[C]Hazelden cleaned out my parents, bu[G]t my stay was 14 carat
[F]Inner peace is w[Emin]hat we seek at [C]fifteen hundred bucks[D] a week
[D]Treatment?s just a new psychosis[C], need and weakness through hypnosis
[D]The Big Book is omniscie[C]nt, and I?m not[G] self-sufficient
[F]Dependency?s still [Emin]coursing through my blood, I[D]?m only changing drugs[G]
Outro ? G D G C F Emin FEmin
[D] [C] [G]
Fill 1 (add between verses w/ad lib soloing)
[E]
[B]G 0
D 0-2
[A]
[E]
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[G]
Which earned the approbation[C] of all my plastered peers
(Band In)
[F]Now I do my week[Emin]ly bleeding at[F] trendy A[Emin]A meetings
[D]I was a social monster, [C]but now I serve my sponsor (w/Fill 1)
[G]I choke out clich confessions[D], I suck down coffee black
[G]I chain smoke cigarettes b[C]etween handfuls of Prozac
[F]Man am I one sober[Emin] stallion, [F]I just got my[Emin] first medallion
[D]My higher power drug me, I?m[C] letting strangers hug me (w/Fill 1)
[D]Now I really crave a meeting[C], all those soothing empty greetings
[D]The Big Book is omniscient a[C]nd I?m not self-sufficient
[F]Dependency?s still [Emin]coursing through my b[D]lood, I?m only changing drugs[G]
[G]Self help study, twelve step progr[D]am, which hollow slogan was it?
[G] We found serenity and [C] Day by Day or Easy does it ?
[F]Plant that [Emin]affirmation s[F]eed, our lice[Emin]nse plate should read
[D] Ten thousand lakes and treatment centres,
[C]Betty Ford?s our statewide mento[G]r (w/ Fill 1)
[G]They say the devils in the detail[D]s of this cunning, baffling habit
[G]I poured out all my Nyqui[C]l, I flushed my Sine-aid tablets
[F]?Don?t take othe[Emin]rs inventory,?[F] ?Thanks for shar[Emin]ing your sick story
[D]If I bluff I know they?ll cal[C]l it, ?I?m Stuart, I?m an [G]alcoholic? (w/Fill 1)
[D]Dysfunction builds the strangest sag[C]es, quoting pointless daily phrases
[D]The Big Book is omniscient,[C] and I?m no[G]t self-sufficient
[F]Dependency?s still[Emin] coursing through my blood, I?[D]m only changing drugs[G]
(w/palm muting for the next 2 lines)
[C]It?s a self-perpetuating busines[B]s, you can?t cure a life-long sickness
[C]Hazelden cleaned out my parents, bu[G]t my stay was 14 carat
[F]Inner peace is w[Emin]hat we seek at [C]fifteen hundred bucks[D] a week
[D]Treatment?s just a new psychosis[C], need and weakness through hypnosis
[D]The Big Book is omniscie[C]nt, and I?m not[G] self-sufficient
[F]Dependency?s still [Emin]coursing through my blood, I[D]?m only changing drugs[G]
Outro ? G D G C F Emin FEmin
[D] [C] [G]
Fill 1 (add between verses w/ad lib soloing)
[E]
[B]G 0
D 0-2
[A]
[E]
