| C G/B | Fmaj7 | C G/B | Fmaj7 |
| C G/B | Fmaj7 | C G/B | Fmaj7 |

[Verse 1]
C                 G/B             Fmaj7
  Just a minute before you leave, girl
C       G/B                         Fmaj7
 Just a minute before you touch the door
C      G/B                          Fmaj7
  What is it that you're trying to achieve, girl?
C        G/B                             Fmaj7
  Do you think we can talk about it some more?

[Bridge 1]
              Dm
You know, the streets are filled with vipers
       Dm
Who've lost all ray of hope
C/G
 You know, it ain't even safe no more
G
In the palace of the Pope

[Chorus]
C           G/B          Fmaj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
C            G/B                Fmaj7
I just don't think that I could handle it
C           G/B          Fmaj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Dm                 Em
Yesterday's just a memory
  F                            C/G
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
| F/G | F/G        G |
And I need you, yeah

[Verse 2]
C G/B                       Fmaj7
   Come over here from over there, girl
C G/B                    Fmaj7
  Sit down here. You can have my chair
C   G/B                   Fmaj7
  I can't see us goin' anywhere, girl
    C                    G/B                     Fmaj7
The only place open is a thousand miles away and I can't take you there

[Bridge 2]
  Dm
I wish I'd have been a doctor
Dm
Maybe I'd have saved some life that had been lost
C/G
Maybe I'd have done some good in the world
G
 'Stead of burning every bridge I crossed

[Chorus]
C            G/B          Fmaj7
 Don't fall apart on me tonight
C            G/B                Fmaj7
I just don't think that I could handle it
C           G/B          Fmaj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Dm                 Em
Yesterday's just a memory
  F                            C/G
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
| F/G | F/G        G |
And I need you, yeah

[Verse 3]
C   G/B                     Fmaj7
  I ain't too good at conversation, girl
C                  G/B                Fmaj7
 So, you might not know exactly how I feel
    C               G/B                      Fmaj7
But if I could, I'd bring you to the mountaintop, girl
    C                 G/B         Fmaj7
And build you a house made out of stainless steel

[Bridge 3]
    Dm
But it's like I'm stuck inside a painting
         Dm
That's a-hanging in the Louvre
   C/G
My throat start to tickle and my nose itches
      G
But I know that I can't move

[Chorus]
C           G/B          Fmaj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
C            G/B                Fmaj7
I just don't think that I could handle it
C           G/B          Fmaj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Dm                       Em
Yesterday's gone but the past lives on
  F                 C/G
Tomorrow's just one step beyond
| F/G | F/G        G |
And I need you, oh

[Middle 8]
Bb                           Fmaj7
Who are these people who are walking towards you?
       F                            C
Do you know them or will there be a fight?
           Bb                  Fmaj7
With their humorless smiles so easy to see through
         F                                 C
Can they tell you what's wrong from what's right?
   F               C
Or do you remember St. James Street
F                          C
Where you blew Jackie P.'s mind?
            F                            C
You were so fine, Clark Gable would have fell at your feet
    Bb       F           | F/G | G |
And laid his life on the line

[Solo]
| C G/B | Fadd9 | C G/B | Fadd9 |

[Verse 4]
C       G/B                            Fmaj7
  Let's try to get beneath the surface waste, girl
        C               G/B                          Fmaj7
No more booby traps and bombs, No more decadence and charm
C          G/B               Fmaj7
 No more affection that's misplaced, girl, 
C        G/B                             Fmaj7
 No more mudcake creatures lying in your arms

[Bridge 4]
Dm
 What about that millionaire
         Dm
With the drumsticks in his pants?
             C/G
He looked so baffled and so bewildered
        G
When he played and we didn't dance

[Chorus]
C            G/B          Fmaj7
 Don't fall apart on me tonight
C            G/B                Fmaj7
I just don't think that I could handle it
C           G/B          Fmaj7
Don't fall apart on me tonight
Dm                 Em
Yesterday's just a memory
  F                            C/G
Tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be
| F/G | F/G        G |
And I need you, yeah, oh, I need you ...