Artist/Band: Durrance Eric Tabs
Song: I Lost It All Tab
Eric Durrance
I Lost It All
Capo: 2nd Fret
Intro G Cadd9 (2x)
G
He was holdin' up a cardboard sign,
D
I didn't read it, I just drove on by
Em7
Thought to myself, man get a job
Cadd9
Then headed out in the downtown mall
G
Then later on on the evening news
D
There he was, in an interview
Em7
And they asked him, man how'd you end up here
Cadd9
And as his eyes filled up with tears, he said
G D
You probably wouldn't think it, but I used to have a life
C
A job I was proud of, a son and a beautiful wife
G D
A house and a neighborhood, yeah man I had it good
C D C G
Until the night our car hit that wall, and I lost it all
G
He said I tried to hold 'er on the road
D
But it was rainin' hard, and I lost control
Em7
And that other car swerved in our lane
Cadd9
I jerked the wheel and I hit the brakes, but there was
G
Nowhere to go, nothin' I could do
D
Later on that night when I came to
Em7
The doctor said I got bad news
C
So unless you've been there in those shoes
G D
You probably wouldn't think it, but I used to have a life
C
A job I was proud of, a son and a beautiful wife
G D
A house and a neighborhood, yeah man I had it good
C D C G
Until the night our car hit that wall, and I lost it all
Em7 D Cadd9
The next morning on my way to work, I rolled my window down
Em7 D Cadd9 D
I said 'hey man if you need a job, maybe I could help you out'
Am G/B C G/B
And as he climbed up in my old truck, I said I saw you on the news
Am G/B C D
And I realized, that could be me, standing in your shoes
Em7 D Cadd9
Cuz the cancer took my wife away last fall
Am G/B C D
Yeah I know what it's like, to hit that wall
G Cadd9
Cuz I lost it all
G Cadd9
Yeah I lost it all
G Cadd9
When you lose it all
G Cadd9
When you lose it all
G
He was holdin' up a cardboard sign,
D
I didn't read it, just drove on by
Em7 Cadd9
Thought to myself, man get a job..
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