Hollow man (2024)     (video)

    D - G    - D - G

        G                                      C                   G

1.What do you sing when the song's been sung ?

        C                                                G

    Who do you fight hen the war is won ?

          C                                                   G

    What do you write when the book is done ?

          G                                      D                 G

    What do you sing when the song's been sung ?

       G                                   C               G

2. How do you pray 'till you find your prayer ?

       C                                                                G

    How can you care so much, you just don't care ?

       C                                                   G

    How do you feel until the feeling's gone.

                   G                                         D             G

    Until you love yourself how can you love someone ?

            D                      G

Here I am the hollow man,

              D                                                          G

telling stories ‘bout the promise of a promised land.

                      C                                                             G

Feel like a cheap bouquet of flowers and a one-man band,

                             D                         G

with my heart in hand, the hollow man.

+  D - G

       G                                         C               G

3. How does it work when the words don't come ?

                  C                                               G

    It's like pulling the trigger on an empty gun.

              C                                               G

    You can't make it rain staring at the sun,

                   G                                        D             G

so you work at your work until the work gets done.

            D                      G

Here I am the hollow man,

             D                                                           G

telling stories ‘bout the promise of a promised land.

                   C                                                     G

Feel like a holy roller’s rosary on a one night stand,

                            D                           G     - G7

with my heart in hand, the hollow man.

               C

+  I'm a blank page, clean slate, at night, I'll give my soul away,

                G

when nothing's left, I'll give you a smile.

               C

    I got these chords that won't wait, I'm much too vain to masturbate,

           D

no sacrificin' substance for style.

                     Am                              C

    Awe, anyway, ha, I got you to smile.

+  D - G   - D - G

         G                                    C                G

4. What do you see that your eyes don't see ?

                C                                                                      G

    And what do you dream now that you've sold your dreams ?

                C                                                          G

    And what do you sing when the song's been sung ?

         G                                       D                 G

    What do you sing when the song's been sung ?

             D                     G

Here I am the hollow man,

             D                                                           G

telling stories ‘bout the promise of a promised land.

                       C                                                             G

I feel like a cheap bouquet of flowers and a one-man band,

                  C                                                    G

I'm just a holy roller’s rosary on a one night stand,

                            D        D7                    G

with my heart in hand I am the hollow man.

+  D - G - D - G

    (Bon Jovi & Bruce Springsteen)