Stuart Davis - Only Changing Drugs Chords & Tabs

This is a simplified version that just gives the basic chord changes so that one can
play it through from start to finish. You’ll probably need to have a listen to get the
rhythm right. There’s some lead guitar between the verses that I have not included here 
but it sounds like it’s just a matter of messing about in the Eminor blues scale. Enjoy!

Only Changing Drugs

					         G
I had my stomach pumped two times my senior year
			    C
Which earned the approbation of all my plastered peers

(Band In)

F	        Emin	      F	       Emin
Now I do my weekly bleeding at trendy AA meetings

D		        C
I was a social monster, but now I serve my sponsor (w/Fill 1)

G			      D
I choke out cliché confessions, I suck down coffee black
G		          C
I chain smoke cigarettes between handfuls of Prozac
F	          Emin	     F            Emin
Man am I one sober stallion, I just got my first medallion
D			    C
My higher power drug me, I’m letting strangers hug me (w/Fill 1)

D			    C
Now I really crave a meeting, all those soothing empty greetings
D			    C
The Big Book is omniscient and I’m not self-sufficient
F		   Emin		        D				G
Dependency’s still coursing through my blood, I’m only changing drugs
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G				  D
Self help study, twelve step program, which hollow slogan was it?
G			C
 We found serenity  and  Day by Day  or  Easy does it ?
F	   Emin		F	     Emin
Plant that affirmation seed, our license plate should read
D
 Ten thousand lakes and treatment centres,
C				G
Betty Ford’s our statewide mentor        (w/ Fill 1)

G			         D
They say the devils in the details of this cunning, baffling habit
G			 C
I poured out all my Nyquil, I flushed my Sine-aid tablets
F		Emin	      F		       Emin
‘Don’t take others inventory,’ ‘Thanks for sharing your sick story
D			     C				G
If I bluff I know they’ll call it,  ‘I’m Stuart, I’m an alcoholic’ 		(w/Fill 1)

D				    C
Dysfunction builds the strangest sages, quoting pointless daily phrases
D			   C	      G
The Big Book is omniscient, and I’m not self-sufficient
F		  Emin                          D				G
Dependency’s still coursing through my blood, I’m only changing drugs





(w/palm muting  for the next 2 lines)

C			        B
It’s a self-perpetuating business, you can’t cure a life-long sickness
C			           G
Hazelden cleaned out my parents, but my stay was 14 carat
F		Emin 	       C		    D
Inner peace is what we seek at fifteen hundred bucks a week
D				C
Treatment’s just a new psychosis, need and weakness through hypnosis
D		    	C	       G
The Big Book is omniscient, and I’m not self-sufficient
F		   Emin 		       D			            G
Dependency’s still coursing through my blood, I’m only changing drugs


Outro – G  D G  C  F Emin  FEmin
D C G


Fill 1 (add between verses w/ad lib soloing)

E
B
G	0
D     0-2
A
E