Chords for Beth Hart - Mini documentary from NPO Radio 2

_ _ Okay, I wanna make sure I don't
freak out my husband's car.
He would [Em] trip.
Why I gotta wait for all these freaking cars?
If this had been the old day,
I would [N] have just whipped this around so fast.
But now I'm a little more responsible.
And it's not your car.
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 light on,
this is where we moved to.
[Dm] And I ended up living here for about [C] 16 years.
But this used to be more of [F#] a gang neighborhood.
[N] It was edgier, but everyone was always real nice to us.
So right here, this is [A] our old house right here
with the white.
They fixed it up a lot from [E] what it was.
But we lived there.
That's where I wrote, Leave the Light On.
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A]
I'm bipolar [E] one.
_ [A] And my mania is the scariest part.
That's [E] what makes me wanna drink.
It makes me wanna cut myself.
[Bm] I'm going a million miles an hour.
I write tons of [D] songs, manic,
but _ [B] 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 [Am] on.
I went from zero to [E] minus 10.
I drank [C#m] your wine and I [Bm] stole your man.
I leave the light on.
[D] _ I leave that [E] light on.
_ [A] _ [B] This city can eat you alive, you know?
[C#]
You have to feel that it's okay to not belong
if you don't feel [Em] like you belong.
But did you feel that the city was eating you alive
at one point?
[C#] Yeah, because I think I felt like,
well, A, you know, I was unmedicated.
I was also really into heavy drug and alcohol use.
_ [G] _ And [Fm] I felt so small and insignificant,
[N] like LA was just so much bigger and smarter and better
and just really insecure.
[D] Was there a moment that you didn't care anymore?
What happened? Yes.
Oh yeah, totally.
There was [F] longer than a moment.
_ I think that I really didn't wanna live [B] anymore.
And I think I was just starving myself to death
and taking all those things
that I was [A] hoping I would just die.
17 and I'm all messed up [E] inside.
I cut myself just to feel [Bm] alive.
I leave the light on.
_ _ [E] Yeah, I leave the light on.
_ [A] _
21 [E] on the run _ _ from myself,
from [G#m] myself and [D] everyone. _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] Better [Dm] leave the light on.
_ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] Much about _ _ [Dm] liberty.
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
Can the damage be [F#m] undone?
_ I swear to [Bm] God that I'd never be _ what I'm [Dm]
because.
_ _ _ [D] You know, getting to make [B] music
is something to bring me [E] joy in my life
and to help me get through my life.
But the [G#] greatest blessings have been Scott
and [C] my [B] parents and [D#] bipolar and alcoholism.
Really, [B] 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.
I know there are gonna be times that I wanna drink so bad
that I gotta bite my lower lip,
but it doesn't mean that I have to go there.
You know?
And what do [N] I 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 freaking truth.
[C]
Even if everybody thinks you're the biggest dick
or you're just such a [B] loser, it's worth it
because that light [F] will drive away the dark.
I really believe that.
[G#] I've seen it happen in my life.
[E] _ You know, [A] shining that light, shining that truth,
[G#] having the courage to tell the [B] truth. _ _
And that's hard.
Because [C] of course I wanna connect with [D#] everybody.
Of course I wanna feel a part of the group.
I wanna feel a part of the human race.
I [E] don't wanna feel alone.
[A] And I won't, _ _ _ _ [F#m] I won't, _ _ _ _ [D] I don't know much [A] about it.
[Dm] I never tell you _ _ [A] what to do.
_ Can the damage be [F#m]
undone?
[F#] _ I swear to [Bm] God that I _ _ _ would, I'm,
[Dm] _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
I'll leave that light on.
[A] _ God bless the child with a dirty [C#m] face
who cuts her luck with a [Bm] dirty ace.
She leaves the light on.
_ [D] _ I still [E] leave that light on. _ _
Oh. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Okay.