Chords for Beth Hart - Leave The Light On | Het verhaal achter het nummer | Top 2000 a gogo

_ _ _ Okay, I wanna make sure I don't
freak out my husband's car.
He would [G] trip.
Oh, I gotta wait for all these freaking cars.
See, if this had been the old day,
I would have [N] just whipped this around so fast.
But now I'm a little more responsible.
And it's not your car.
And it's not my car. _
It's not my car. _ _ _ _ _
Yeah, this is our street, right?
Here, yeah.
Had a lot of years here.
So when I was at my most sick,
before I made Le Glide On,
_ this is where we moved to. _
And I ended up living here for about 16 years.
But this used to be [E] more of a gang [A] neighborhood.
[F] It was edgier.
[N] But everyone was always real nice to us.
_ So right here, this is our old [A] house,
right here with the white.
They fixed it up a lot for what it was.
But we lived there.
That's where I wrote Le Glide On.
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I'm bipolar [E] one. _
And [A] my mania is the scariest part. _
That's what makes me wanna [E] drink.
It makes me wanna cut [A] myself.
[Bm] I'm going a million miles an hour.
I write tons of songs, [D] manic.
But _ [E] it's no way to be.
_ _ _ [A] I sing myself with a [E] dirty face.
I cut my luck with a [Bm] dirty ace.
I leave the light on.
[D] _ I leave the light on.
[A] _ _ I went from zero to [E] minus 10.
I drank your [C#m]
wine and I [Bm] stole your man.
_ I leave the light on.
_ [D] I leave that [E] light _ [A] on.
_ This city can eat you alive, you [C#m] know?
You have [E] to feel that it's [Bm] okay to not belong
if you [F#m] don't feel like you [Em] belong. _
But did you feel that the city was eating you alive
at one point?
[D#] Yeah, because I think I felt like,
_ [N] well, A, you know, I was unmedicated.
I was [E] also really into heavy drug and alcohol [N] use.
_ _ _ _ And I felt so small and insignificant,
like LA was just so much bigger and smarter and better
and just really insecure.
Was there a moment that you didn't care anymore?
Yes. _
Oh yeah, _ totally.
There was longer than a [C#] moment.
_ _ I think that I [C] really didn't wanna live anymore.
And I [C#] think I was just starving [E] myself to death
and _ taking all those [C#] things
that I was [Cm] hoping I [A] would just die.
17 and I'm all messed up [E] inside.
[A] I cut [E] myself just to [Bm] feel alive.
I leave the light on.
_ [D] _ [A] Yeah, I leave the light on.
_ _ 21 on the run.
_ _ [E] For myself, for myself and [D] everyone.
I _ _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] better leave [Dm] the light on. _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ Can the damage be [F#m] undone?
_ _ _ I swear to [Bm] God,
I'll never be _ what I'm.
[Dm] _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ You know, getting to make music
is [G] something to bring me joy in [G#m] my life
and to help [E] me get through my life.
But the greatest [D#] blessings have been [C#] Scott
and [N] my parents and bipolar and alcoholism.
Really, I think those have been the greatest blessings.
_ They've made me come to my knees and _ obliterated the ego,
the big fat giant ego that I love to embrace
from time to time. _ _
And I know I'm gonna have my mental swings.
[Em] I know there are gonna be [C#m] times
that I wanna drink so bad
[Em] that I gotta bite my lower lip.
But it doesn't mean that I have to go there.
You know?
And what do I [N] get to do to get through it?
I get to reach out, whether it be through a song
or calling my mother or calling a friend
or being honest in an interview.
You know, truth will set you free.
The truth will set you free.
Shine a light on the dark and it flees.
Shine a light on the dark and it flees.
Tell the fricking truth.
Even if everybody thinks you're the biggest dick
or you're just such a loser, it's worth it
because that light will drive away the dark.
I really believe that.
I've seen it happen in my life.
_ You know, shining that light, shining that truth,
having the courage to tell the truth.
_ _ _ And that's hard.
Because of course I wanna connect with everybody.
Of [D#] course I wanna feel a part of the group.
I wanna feel a part of the human race.
I don't [E] wanna feel alone.
[Dm] And I wanna, [A] _ _ _ _
_ _ I wanna, [F#m] _ _ _
_ _ I [D] don't know much about it.
_ [Dm] Liberty, I _ _ don't know.
_ [A] _ _ _
Can the damage be [F#m] undone? _ _
I swear to [Bm] God that never _ _ would I.
[Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [E]
I leave that light on. _ _
[A] _ God bless the child with a dirty [C#m] face
who cuts her luck with a dirty [Bm] ace.
_ She leaves the light on.
[D] I _ still _ _ [E] leave that light _ on.
_ _ Oh. _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
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