Bottleman chords by Eric Bogosian

SimplifiedG · Gm · D · F#m · F

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Verse 1
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Gm 
I don't like to complain.
I'm not a complaining
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kind of guy.
I'm a happy guy.
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Runs my family happiness.
Never been sick in my life.
Not one day.
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Unless you count broken bones,
which I don't.
I like to stay positive.
I like to stay on the sunny side
of the street.
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You give me a pack of cigarettes,
some place to sit down,
a cup of coffee, egg salad,
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sandwich, newspaper, I'm happy.
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I don't even need the cigarettes.
I should quit anyways.
It's a dirty habit.
Unhealthy, expensive.
But you figure people like
cigarettes.
They give them to you.
They give you the sandwich.
Food's another subject altogether.
People aren't exactly
walking around
with an egg salad sandwich in their back
pockets.
Unless they're crazy or something.
you figure an egg salad sandwich
is going to run you maybe
80, 90 bottles.
I'm finding maybe 50 bottles a
day.
You're talking a shortfall there,
about 20 bottles.
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Or cans, bottles or cans.
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It don't really make much difference.
Back in the old days,
I used to weigh a lot more than I
do now.
I always used to be on a diet,
always trying to lose weight.
I don't have that problem anymore.
I'm on an egg salad sandwich diet now.
One egg salad sandwich
every two days,
you lose weight like crazy.
It just flies off, and it stays off.
I'm going to get a copyright on that one,
get a patent,
put it out in the newspaper.
That's what I'm going do.
That's what I'm going do.
Newspapers you can find.
can always find newspapers.
People just leave them around.
You can just pick them up for free right
off the...
And I read them.
It's important to know
what's going on in the world today.
It's important to stay on
top of things.
They got a train in Japan
that goes over 300 miles
an hour.
They got hotels now for cockroaches.
They have hotels now for mice.
I stay away from hotels.
Too expensive. 10 a night.
Who's got that kind of money?
That's 200 bottles.
It's not in my budget.
Forget about it.
But it's okay.
It's not a problem.
There's always someplace
you can stay.
There's always someplace you can lie down.
Someplace you can wet
yourself in.
The problem is the concrete,
the rocks, the stone.
They make everything
too hard.
Too much cemented steel these days.
Whatever happened to woods?
know, wood.
They used to make everything out of wood.
Used to make buildings out of wood.
They used to make benches out of it.
No more, no more. don't got no more.
See, they don't got no more.
You know why they
don't got no more wood?
No more wood,
because they
don't got no more trees.
That's what it is.
They cut down all the trees.
That was it.
No more trees, no more
wood.
That's where they get
the wood from.
They get
the wood from the trees, see?
That's what it is.
That's what it is.
I saw this tree.
Little baby tree.
They made a little hole in the sidewalk,
and they put this little
baby tree in there.
And every day,
I come by to see the tree.
Every day, I come by.
I say hello to the tree.
Hello, tree.
That's what I used to say
every day.
this trucker was making that sound,
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truck sound, that like, bam, bam, bam,
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bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam,
right over the tree,
right over the tree.
See, trees, can't hear that.
They can't hear that sound.
That was it for the tree.
He was finished.
It's not his fault.
It's not his fault.
It's just the nature of
a tree.
You run them over, they die.
They're not like people.
They can't take the abuse.
I mean, you put a metal pole there,
then you don't have that problem.
You put the metal pole,
and then the trucker hits the pole,
it just stops.
That's it. It just spins.
That's it. That's
it, see? That's it.
But then you don't get the twigs,
see? don't get the leaves.
don't get the wood, see?
The wood. No wood.
That's what wood...
Wood is good.
Wood is good.
Dogs like wood.
I used to have a dog.
I used to walk him every day.
Every day I used to walk him.
I used to walk him. used to say,
Come on, come on.
Who takes care of you?
Who takes care of you?
I take care of you.
Who's gonna take care of me
in my old age, huh?
Who's gonna take care of me?
That's what I used to say to him
every day.
He ran away,
you know, but that's OK.
They got to eat, too, the little ones.
We all got to eat.
I like to eat.
It's human nature to eat.
It's kind of a hobby of mine,
eating.
Nice, nice, nice egg salad sandwich
there.
Nice, nice cup of coffee.
I don't drink so much coffee anymore.
0 .60 a cup.
Who's got that kind of money?
Who thought up that figure?
0 .10. 0 .10 a cup.
That's what it should be, right?
0 .10. I don't need it.
I don't need coffee.
Who needs the coffee?
People drink coffee to stay
awake.
I don't need to stay awake.
I'm awake.
I'm awake when I'm asleep.
I'm awake
I'm always awake.
You got to keep your eyes
open.
That's what you got to do
If you don't keep your eyes open
when you're lying there
some other guy he wants to come
lie the same place
You're a conflict of interest.
You don't keep your eyes open.
He comes back with a baseball bat
bang bang on the head
That's it. You're finished.
No, no more cigarettes.
No more coffee.
Nothing forget it.
That's it
I mean these guys these guys
they like to fight.
I don't got that luxury.
I'm missing a kneecap
I can't hear out of this ear
on my second set of teeth.
I'm like the bionic man
without the hardware
I'm no Cassius Clay,
I'm no Cassius Clay,
but I look at it this way,
I stay on the sunny side of
the street.
That's what I do.
A guy once said to me,
he once said,
life is like a half a glass of water, see? It is, it's
like a half a glass of water,
and you got a half a glass of water,
and you
You got a half a glass of water
and you should drink that water,
that's what he said, that's what he said.
No, that isn't what he said.
He said a half a glass of water
is better than no water at all,
that's what he said,
that's what he said.
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I look at it this way,
I could be living in Ethiopia,
they got it terrible over there,
those poor people,
they got no food,
they just sit in the sand all day
and there's too many flies
and it's too sunny.
It's not for me.
It's not for me.
It's not my bag.
It's not my bag.
It's better here.
It's good here.
It's good. It's good.
Then I'm thankful. It's good.
Well, I gotta get going now.
Time to go to work.
You know what they say?
The early bird catches the
can.
That's what they say.
Or bottles.
Or bottles. bottles or cans.
Don't make no difference.
They don't make no difference.
Don't make no difference at all.