E|--3--0-----------0--|--3--0-----------0-----------0--|-----------|
B|--1-----1-----1-----|--0-----1-----1-----1--1-----1--|-----------|
G|--0-----2--2--------|--0-----0--2--------2--2--2--0--|-----------|
D|--2-----3--3--------|--2-----2--3--------0--3-----2--|-----------|
A|--3-----3--3--------|--3-----3--3-----------3-----3--|--2--0-----|
E|--------------------|--------------------1--------3--|--------3--|

[Verse]
C                  D7
Nothing is real in cardboard California
F              Am7         Em
Just waking up brings you down
C                 D7
One lousy deal is cardboard California
F                           Am7              Gm6   Am7
You just can't survive in a make-believe town

[Verse]
Em7               G       Em
Lost in a city of little tin gods
F#m7         F                 Gm   Dm7
Cold plastic people with phony facades
Em                           A7      Em
How can you win when you look at the odds

[Chorus]
Dm     Em      F    Em7 Dm7 Em7 Fmaj7
You're running down a   one way street
Fmaj7        Em7 Dm7 Em7 Fmaj7
Nobody cares if  you sur vive
Fm7           Gm7 Fm7    Gm7   Abmaj7
Sometimes you beg or you don't eat
Abmaj7     Gm7   Fm7     Gm7 Abmaj7
You  gotta fight to stay a   live
Cmaj7 Fmaj7 C
Hey,
Fmaj7                  Dm7   F C
you're never gonna get away

[Verse]
A       D6  Am7       D       Am7   D Am7
Where's the world you used to know
Am7   D   Am7     D          Am7 G Am7
Where did all the good times go
Dm Fmaj7 Em7         Dm7
Look     around your hopes and dreams are gone
Fmaj7               G                  A7
But like a fool you still keep hanging on

A7 D7
Am7
hanging on

[Instruental]
A D Am D Am7 D Am7 D Am7
D Am7 Dmaj7  Am7 D Am D Am7 D

[Verse]
F             Em7   Fmaj7  Em7  Fmaj7
Come and be a movie star
Fmaj7            Em7   Fmaj7  Em7
Come and drive a fancy car
Fmaj7    C    Dm7 Em7 Fmaj7 Em7 Fmaj7 Em7 Dm7
Come and see,
Fmaj7 Em7 Dm7    E        Am7 G9
what  you really are

[Verse]
Am7         Am                    Amaj7
Look in the mirror, mirrors don't lie
Gm7
You're getting older, your time's past you by
G   Am             Em
You lost your shot to some younger guy

[Chorus]
D            F    Em7 Dm7 Em  Fmaj7
You're running down a   one way street
F            Em7 Dm7 Em  Fmaj7 Fm7
Nobody cares if  you sur vive
Fm7           Gm7    Fm7 Gm    Abmaj7
Sometimes you beg or you don't eat
Abmaj7     Gm7   Fm      Gm Abmaj7
You  gotta fight to stay a  live
Cmaj7 Fmaj7 C
Hey,
Fmaj7                  Dm7   F C
you're never gonna get away

[Outro]
E|-----------------------|
B|--1--0--------------1--|
G|--0--0--2--0--------0--|
D|--2--2--3--2--2--0--2--|
A|--3--3--3--3--3--2--3--|
E|--------0--3--3--3-----|
C                  D
Nothing is real in cardboard California
F              Am7
Just waking up brings you down
C                 D7
One lousy deal is cardboard California
F                       Am7
You just can't survive in a make-believe town