Something To Believe In by Poison chord (text):

Something to Believe In (MTV Unplugged Version)
Poison

Open E Tuning  (EBEG#BE)
CHORDS:
                                         
 E      F#m      G#m      A       B      (A)     (Asus2)

-0-     -0-      -0-     -0-     -0-     -x-       -x-
-0-     -0-      -0-     -0-     -0-     -x-       -x-
-0-     -1-      -3-     -5-     -7-     -x-       -x-
-0-     -2-      -4-     -5-     -7-     -5-       -5-
-0-     -2-      -4-     -5-     -7-     -5-       -7-
-0-     -0-      -0-     -0-     -0-     -5-       -5-





INTRO:

E	F#m	E	F#m	G#m	F#m	G#m	A

E
I came home from school on Tuesday
F#m
To find my mother gone
E
Why she left I’ll never know
F#m
It seemed like they got along
G#m				  F#m
But one of these days I’d like to know
G#m				A
Just where it all went wrong
E
A woman torn to tears asks
F#m
Who the real criminals are
		E
Or when they told ‘er her husband died
			F#m
Fighting in another country’s drug wars
		E
She said it isn’t the kids on the streets without a dream
F#m
Shooting up the dealer’s smack
		E
It’s them a red-tape politicians
		  F#m
Digging on the drug lords kick-backs
G#m				F#m
Isn’t it funny what power and money
G#m				A
Can do to the soul of a man?
				   E
And give me something to believe in
		F#m
If there’s a lord above
				E
I give me something to believe in
F#m
If there’s a lord above
E
He got a second job at night now
F#m
Just to help pay the bills
E
And there he worked for the rest of his life
	 F#m
Cuz his wife had taken him in
	 E
Now he lives on a bottle of courage


F#m
He buys at the liquor store
E
He did his family real good
	 F#m
Till he couldn’t do it anymore
G#m			F#m
Whatever he found, why he broke down
G#m			A
No one’s really sure
					E
Just needed something to believe in
		F#m
If there’s a lord above
				   E
He needed something to believe in
	F#m
Oh lord arise
		  G#m				 F#m
The tracks of society’s racial on the old man’s face
G#m				  A
His eyes blood red lay to waste

SOLO CHORDS (see bottom for timing of A to Asus2 chords):

B	A	    B	       A	E	(A) (Asus2) (A) (Asus2)	
E      (A) (Asus2) (A) (Asus2) G#m	F#m	 G#m	     A

	    E
Well the mirror tells a different story
	   F#m
Than the one that’s playin’ in my mind
	E
Every time I swear I’m lookin’ younger
	   F#m
The more lines that I find
	    E
I guess I learned to trade youth for wisdom
   F#m
And lust in for romance
E
It’s all written in the stages and phases
  F#m
Of life’s little dance
	    G#m			F#m
And when I wanna bitch about growin’ old
G#m					   A
I think of how many never had a chance
					E
It gives me something to believe in
	F#m		E	F#m	E	F#m
Oh lord arise (x4)
G#m			  F#m
Sometimes I wish I didn’t know now
G#m			   A		E	F#m	G#m	A
Things I didn’t know then
					E
And give me something to believe in


Solo timing:

   A        Asus2       A  Asus2
|--x----x--x--x--x------x----x--x----|
|--x----x--x--x--x------x----x--x----|
|--x----x--x--x--x------x----x--x----|
|--5----5--5--5--5------5----5--5----|
|--5----5--5--7--5------5----7--5----|
|--5----5--5--5--5------5----5--5----|