Pearl Jam – I Got Id    (album: Merkin Ball (1995))

Intro/verse: [ D, A#, D, A# | D, A#, C, C]

My lips are shaking my nails are bit off.
Been a month since I’ve heard myself talk.
All the advantage this life’s got on me.
Picture a cup in the middle of the sea. [measure of C]

Bm            Bm               F#   G |      Bm    Bm      F#  G

And I fight back in my mind. Never lets me right out.
I got memories. I got ID, so much it don’t show.

       D                  Am                 C                       G

Oh, I walked the lie when you held me in that night.
I walked the line when you held my hand that night.

[solo over verse chords]

On empty shell seem so easy to crack.
Got all these questions. Don’t know who I could even ask.
So I’ll just lie alone and wait for the dream

where I’m not ugly and you’re looking at me. [m of C]

Bm Bm       F#  G         Bm    Bm            F#    G

And I stay in bed. Oh, in a little while I’ll see you.
If just once I could feel love, oh, stare back at me. Yeah.

       D                  Am                 C                       G

But I walked the lie when you held me in that night.
Oh, I walked the lie when you held my hand that night.
Oh, I walked the lie when you held me close that night.
I paid the price. Never held you in real life.

[solo over verse chords]
My lips are shaking…