Placemat Blues
Slobberbone
(Brent Best)

transcribed by Bill Struven



A                                    F#m
Get up from the table and just walk away
                           D
There's nothing for me anyway
                          A
No reason that I should stay
                                             F#m
Where's the place at the table for folks like me?
                            D
There's not one that I can see
               A
Not one I can see
                                                     F#m
Used to be nothing sweeter than the signals it could send
                            D
The musical hand it could lend
                               A
Could be a lonely man's best friend
                                              F#m
Where's the place at the table for folks like them
                                 D
Do you not want what they can spend?
                         A
Where's your place for them?
                        F#m                 D          A
Now don't tell me that you don't see these things all sideways
            F#m                D         A
I wish that you might one day see things my way


I know what you say, you say you serve the youth
You serve them Bizkits and Korn with a spoon
But I think you just serve you
Where's the place at the table for folks like us
When there's no one that we can trust?
Where's the place for us?


Now don't tell me that you don't see these things all sideways
I hope that you might one day see these things my way


That's my rant, I bet it don't make a dent
I waste all these little laments
And wait for accidents
So go on buy it all, buy it all and sell it off
The towers, the meters, the speakers, the knobs
Send it back to God


Just don't tell me that you don't see these things all sideways
And don't tell me that I might one day see things your way
We should kick your ass from here to Friday
Then maybe you might one day see these things my way