Point blank
Bruce Springsteen
Capo II (Bm)
|Am |Am |F |F |G |G |Em |E7
1. Do you still say your prayers, little darling. Do you go to bed at night, praying that tomorrow everything will be alright?
But tomorrows fall in number, in number one by one. You wake up and you're dying. You don't even know what from.
Refr. Well, they shot you, point blank. You've been shot in the back. Baby, point blank. You've been fooled this time, little girl that's a fact.
Right between the eyes, baby. Point blank, right between the pretty lies that they tell. Little girl, you fell.
2. You grew up were young girls they grow up fast. You took what you were handed and left behind what was asked,
but what they asked you, baby, wasn't right. You didn't have to live that life.
And I was gonna be your Romeo, you were going to be my Juliet. These days you don't wait on Romeos, you wait on that welfare check
and on all the pretty little things that you can't ever have and on all the promises that always end up
Refr. Point blank. Shot between the eyes. Oh, point blank, like little white lies you tell to ease the pain.
You're walking in the sights,girl. Point blank, and it's one false move and baby the lights go out.
3. Once I dreamed we were together again, baby, you and me, back home in those old clubs, the way we used to be.
We were standin' at the bar and it was hard to hear. The band was playin' loud and you were shouting something in my ear.
You pulled my jacket off and as the drummer counted four you grabbed my hand and pulled me out on the floor.
4. You just stood there and held me and you started dancin' slow and as I pulled you tighter I swore I'd never let you go.
Well I saw you last night down on the avenue. Your face was in the shadows but I knew it was you.
You were standin in the doorway, out of the rain. You didn't answer when I called out your name.
You just turned and then you looked away, like just another stranger, waitin' to get blown away.
Refr. Point blank,right between the eyes. Oh, point blank. Right between the pretty eyes you fell. Point blank,
you been shot straight through the heart. Yeah, point blank. You been twisted up 'til you've become just another part of it.
Point blank, you're walking in the sights. Point blank, even one false move, just one false move away. Caught you in their sights.
Point blank, did you forget how to to love? Girl, did you forget how to fight? They must have shot you in the head.
'Cause point blank, bang, bang baby, your dead.