verse 1
C# F# G#
In the family home
C# F# G#
Your sister held her head in her hands
C# F# G#
You should know
C# F# G#
That's how we became friends
G# C# F# B
Your sister and I held our heads in the sand
B F# G# A#m
Hiding from your old man
C# G# F#add9
It's different now but it wasn't then
G# C#
She's a good friend **Play intro riff starting on C# chord with 'friend'**
verse 2
C# F# G#
The family home
C# F# G#
Ice cream cone
C# F# G#
Plasma screen
C# F# G#
Magazines
C# F# G#
By the downstairs' phone
(By the phone)
C# F# G#
Like a girl's best friend
(Like a girl's best friend)
F# G#
(By the phone)
G# C# F# B
Sharing a bed with my girl's best friend
B F# G# A#m
Then her leg brushed my hand
G# F#add9
It's funny now but it wasn't then
G# C# F#
She's a good friend (In the family home)
G# C# F# G#
She's a real good friend (In the family, in the family home)
C# F# G#
In the family home (In the family home)
C# F# G# C#
In the family home (In the family, in the family home)
Interlude
C# F# G#
(repeat as needed)
A#m
(before going into third verse)
verse 3
D# G# A#
In the family home
D# G# A#
Your father held his breath in the sedan
D# G# A#
He should know
D# G# A#
He missed his afternoon show
A# D# G# C#
The sun rains down with the afternoon's glow
G# A# Cm
It's a lie that you know
D# A# G#add9
He spent all those years in that light
G#add9 Fm
And then it went all up **I prefer not to end with the Fm**
e|---------4-----|
B|-6-6--\2---2-4-|
G|---------------|
D|---------------|
A|-4-------------|
E|-------2-----4-|