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   A                 E        A                E
My car broke down in Arizona, have to ride the bus again,
   A              E                   A                    E
At ten-o-clock on Tuesday night, with thirteen cents and a broken pen.
  A               E           A               E
I put my backpack on a bench, tell two people I don't smoke,
A          E                    A                E
See a cop across the street, he thinks that I am selling dope.
F#           B       F#     B         A    E        A   E
I could have walked another block, to get away from the scene.
F#          B      F#      B    A              B
Why does it always come to this where the zero meets the fifteen?

    A            E              A              E
And so I gave my thirteen cents to the man who peed his pants.
   A              E              A                    E
He passes out and falls on me, I watch my change fall from his hands.
  A            E           A              E
I see the lady next to me, holds her baby black and blue.
    A             E                 A              E
The junkie gutter-punks keep asking where I got my new tattoo.
F#           B      F# B    A        E        A     E
What does it matter anyway, thirteen cents or all I own?
F#        B    F#       B         A              B
How can I ever save the world, on cup-o-soup and student loans?
    A E       B           D   A     E       B          D  A   E
And I want to try to save the world, but it never goes my way.
       B          D         A E       B          D
God, I don't know what to do, down at Colfax and Broadway.

A E A E A E B D
A                E            A                 E
Now the man with no shoes on, says I don't know how to play.
A                E                 A                E
He says I fumble all the time.  He thinks that I am John Elway.
  A                E            A             E
I put my face down in my hands, water wells inside my eyes.
     A            E           A             E
What do I have to give them?  Does it maker if I try?
F#      B        F#      B         A      E    A     E
I can't stand to see you suffer, I try to intellectualize,
  F#    B    F#       B        A                 B
A formula to end your pain, it doesn't work, God knows I've tried.
    A E       B           D   A     E       B          D  A   E
And I want to try to save the world, but it never goes my way.
       B          D         A E       B          D
God, I don't know what to do, down at Colfax and Broadway.

B D A             E
     Sometimes my cup is overfilled.
B             D               E
Sometimes I'm too afraid that I'm going to spill.
B D A E B D A E
A E       B           D   A     E       B          D  A   E
I want to try to save the world, but it never goes my way.
       B          D         A E       B          D
God, I don't know what to do, down at Colfax and Broadway.