In The Shelter

@SONG: In The Shelter

@CHORDS: Mike A. Hall (mhall@moe.coe.uga.edu)

In the Shelter

By: Jimmy Buffett

1971

 

In the shelter

In the mornin' as the sun is brightly gleaming

I heard her crying out, "What is it all about?

I just don't know, but I can't go back home"

Lonely princess

All the days out on your own are growing empty

Nothing is going well

If you could only tell them how you feel

But they're too real to understand

Too many trite expressions

Ending in forced rejections long ago

To many innocent faces

In too many far out places somethings wrong

Let me tell you that somethings wrong

It's been that way so long, and it's a shame

On the street car

To the city where she knows she may lose it all

Riding for just a dime, takin' her own sweet time

And knowing well that this could be her final fall

Past the boutique

To the alley down the river, people pass her by

She sits on a big gray rock, takes off her boots and socks

Not knowin' what she will do next just starts to cry

Too many wild rejections

Endin' in angry questions from her dad

Too many T.V. dinners

Ah, everyone loves a winner, but she was lost

No one knows the trials she had

(Repeat first verse, then)

Hell, I just don't know, but I can't go back home (fade)