The Prison
By Melissa Etheridge
From the Album "Skin"

Throughout this song,
you won't take your pinky off the third fret of  the high-E string.
The chord names I put above the tablature are the names of the chords
if the pinky was not on the third fret of the high E-string.

      Am              Am           Am            Am
------3--------------3-------------3-------------3-------
--------1---1----------1---1---------1---1---------1---1-
----2-----2-------2------2------2------2------2------2---
---------------------------------------------------------
-0-------------0-------------0-------------0-------------
---------------------------------------------------------


      Fmaj7         Fmaj7          Fmaj7          Fmaj7
-------3--------------3--------------3--------------3-----
---------1---1----------1---1----------1---1--------------
-----2-----2--------2-----2-------2------2-------2--------
-3--------------3-------------3--------------3------------
----------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------
                                                      I was

     C              C              C              C
--------3--------------3--------------3-------------3--------3-
----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1------------------
-----2------2-------2------2-------2------2-------2-------2----
---------------------------------------------------------------
-3--------------3--------------3--------------3-------2--------
---------------------------------------------------------------
 high and dry           like a Kansas sky                 If I


   Am             Am           Am             Am
------3--------------3-------------3-------------3---------3-
--------1---1----------1---1---------1---1-------------------
----2-----2-------2------2------2------2------2---------2----
-------------------------------------------------------------
-0-------------0-------------0-------------0-----------------
-----------------------------------------------------3-------
 ached for any more        I knew I'd surely die


  Fmaj7          Fmaj7          Fmaj7          Fjam7
-------3--------------3--------------3--------------3-------
---------1---1----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1-
-----2-----2--------2-----2-------2------2-------2------2---
-3--------------3-------------3--------------3--------------
------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------
 Night after night  trying to get out of my skin


     C                            Am
--------3--------------3--------------3--------------3-------
----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1----------1---1-
-----2------2-------2------2-------2------2--------2-----2---
-------------------------------------------------------------
-3--------------2--------------0---------------0-------------
-------------------------------------------------------------
 Day  after    lone  ly        day,      you'd send me back

   G
------3--
---------
---0-----
---------
---------
-3-------
again


C                        Fmaj7
I have stood inside this prison

C                        Fmaj7
I have touched its stony walls

C                        Am
I know before you try to run

Am                   G
You gotta learn to crawl

C                         Fmaj7
I tried to leave it all behind me

C                                   Fmaj7
I drove all night, just to drive all day

C                                      Am
But the walls of this prison still surround me

  Fmaj7 G              Am