Stray Dog chords by Passenger

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Intro:

G C Dadd4 x4



🎸 Verse 1:
G               C    Dadd4
 Well, I had fallen down again, I had nowhere to go
G           C     Dadd4
 You had bolted your doors and closed your window
G            C           Dadd4
 Still a crack in your wall that I could see through
 G               C        Dadd4
I saw your house was empty and I rode out to meet you

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
    G        C     Dadd4
But the city was cold confusing and vast
    G          C    Dadd4
And the light in my soul was fading fast
G                   C        Dadd4
Slung towards the back streets and the alleys where the drunks fight
 G                C      Dadd4
I walked on past the factories in ever-dying sunlight


🎸 Chorus:
 G     C Dadd4
I needed you
 G     C Dadd4
I needed you
 G        C     Dadd4
I needed you, but you never came for me


🎸 Instrumental:
G C Dadd4  x2


🎸 Verse 2:
G           C         Dadd4
 Many years now have passed, and you've not left my mind
G          C        Dadd4
 And memories like photographs have faded in time
G          C       Dadd4
 I walked past the cafes and the nightclubs
 G                C         Dadd4
I walked past the beggars and the ladies with their white gloves


🎸 Pre-Chorus:
 G
I know it won't be long now
   C        Dadd4
It's getting near the end
  G               C        Dadd4
My ribs are poking through and my coat is getting thin


🎸 Chorus:
     G  C Dadd4
I needed you
        G  C Dadd4
Yeah, I needed you
      G          C     Dadd4
You see, I needed you, oh, but you never came for me


🎸 Instrumental:
G C Dadd4


🎸 Bridge:
C           D     G      C
 So I walked back to where I'd once called home
          Em    D      G     C
But the rooms were dark and bare and the garden overgrown
            D       G       C
And the door was still locked and the windows still shut
       Em  D
And the wall was still cracked
  G     C
Why did I come back?
         D      G     C
And the answer so thin left me hollow within
       Em  D        G      C
'Cos nothing had changed except the date and my age
           D   G     C
And I still have this pain bloating my veins
        Dadd4
Thumping in my aching brain


🎸 Chorus:
 G     C Dadd4
I needed you
    G     C Dadd4
Yeah, I needed you
      G        C     Dadd4
You see, I needed you, but you never came for me


🎸 Instrumental:
G C Dadd4


🎸 Outro:
G       C       Dadd4
 So I turned away from my madness
G            C         Dadd4
 Thought I saw a light flicker by the door
G        C         Dadd4            G
 I closed down both of my eyelids   and I thought no more