Terrible Thing chords by The Killers

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Intro:

Eb Eb Eb Eb



🎸 Verse 1:
  Eb       Bb         Eb
The parking lot is rammed with shotgun pickup trucks
    Ab                Eb
At the Jones Rubber plant where all the guys end up
Ab                    Eb
Beer-drinking boy scouts living life like they ain't stuck
     Cm       Bb           Ab
On these quicksand streets with their girls in a sling
     Cm       Bb         Eb
I'm in my bedroom on the verge of a terrible thing

🎸 Verse 2:
        Eb       Bb    Eb
Around here, we all take up our cross and hang on His holy name
    Ab                     Eb
But the cards that I was dealt will get you thrown out of the game
  Ab                         Eb
Hey momma, can't you see your boy is wrapped up in the strangle silk
    Cm    Bb         Ab
Of this cobweb town where culture is king?
     Cm       Bb         Eb
I'm in my bedroom on the verge of a terrible thing


🎸 Chorus:
      Ab  Cm         Eb
I close my eyes   and think of the water
      Ab     Cm      Bb
Out at the Salt Creek   when I was young


🎸 Verse 3:
Eb        Bb       Eb
Down at Old Mill Park, half the town's in tow
  Ab               Eb
To crown the Bathing Beauty of the rodeo
     Ab                   Eb
While her mother fights back proud tears a young cowboy gives the nod
     Cm        Bb           Ab
The chute opens, bull draws blood, and the gift is accepted by God
     Cm        Bb           Ab
The chute opens, bull draws blood, and the gift is accepted by God
    Cm        Bb        Ab
In this barbed wire town   of barbed wire dreams
     Cm       Bb         Eb
I'm in my bedroom on the verge of a terrible thing


🎸 Chorus:
      Ab  Cm         Eb
I close my eyes   and think of the water
      Ab     Cm      Bb
Out at the Salt Creek   when I was young
      Ab  Cm         Eb
I close my eyes   and think of the water
        Ab   Cm      Bb
Out at the Salt Creek   when I was young