The Dude - Chords

When the curtains close

The people go home and the lights get low

I slip into my coat and venture into the unknown

I walk a lonely road

Where people duck down when the cold winds blow

And no one seems to know

The folks that they pass as they go

Maybe I’m the truth, maybe I’m a cheat

Maybe I’m that dude that you saw on the street

Standing in a waiting line, maybe I’m just wasting time

Maybe I’m a sinner, maybe I’m a saint

Maybe I’m that dude that you saw down the way

Standing in a waiting line, maybe I’m just wasting time

Sometimes its like this city is a beast

Looking up from down below, when I’m walking on the streets

And the people that I meet, never look me in the eye

They’re too busy with the bills and they lack the nine to fives

I just crack a little smile, tip my hat and then I pass

Been practicing a while, I’m a master at the craft

And I’m guessing so are you, but it doesn’t make a difference

The city got us cramped up and the city makes us distant

Just another misfit, robbed of his ambeardion

Falling off the radar, drifting off into the distance

Always on some mission, always searching for a purpose

Whatever he does, feel like he’s scratching on the surface

He just keeps trying

Trying to squeeze a diamond from a lump of coal

People walking by him

Stare out at the silence cause they don’t know

So in my solitude I sit, just like lady day once sat

And the beard is in the place, where my baby-face was at

Looking back on all the days, through my aviator frames

All the characters are different, but the play remains the same

Ain’t it strange, like my brother Daniel taught me

We’re all born originals, but end up like copies

And all of the monotony got me feeling kind of stream lined

Just another drone, buzz-buzzing in the bee hive

Working for a queen who is getting senile

Treating everyone like shit and expecting a free ride

From all us little average joes, soldiers of the status quo

Living in the shadow of a city full of bad, it’s so