No Rest Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][Em][C][G][D]

[Verse 1]
[G]You hear a song and it's not like
any song you've ever heard before
[Em]Think, "What is this, who is that?"
And you bust it down to the record [C]store
And you buy the album of this song
Take it home and listen to
it all night [G]long
Until the morning, [D]a dream is born and
You [G]wake up on a mission
to buy that beat up
Gibson hanging in the shop
[Em]Cutting yards, selling baseball cards,
whatever it takes till you [C]drop
A handful of crumpled up dollar
bills on the counter
And you [G]play that thing until
your fingers [D]bleed
Where the strings cut [C]ya
But you can't put it [G]down
[D]Ain't no [G]rest for the rock stars
Ain't [Em]no sleep for the kids with guitars
You can [C]kill the lights and the
amplifiers
[G]But dreams don't care if you're [D]tired
Ain't [G]no turning off the warning
'Cause we are [Em]high on
and we're haunted
By the mu[C]sic in our bloodshot hearts
There ain't [G]no rest,
no [D]rest for the rock stars
[G]You see that open mic night advertised
on the marquee down the road
[Em]You show up,
sign up with a lump in your throat
And a song you just wrote
[C]Throwing up in the bathroom stall,
thinking hard about backing out
[G]But they call your name and it's way
too late [D]for stage fright [G]now
Hands shaking, so is your voice,
fumbling through the chord [Em]changes
But about half way through the song
fear starts to feel like famous
[C]And you taste that rush,
that "born to do this" buzz
And you [G]try to shut your eyes after
[D]the show in your bed [C]but
The adrenaline won't let
[D]you 'cause
Ain't no [G]rest for the rock stars
Ain't no [Em]sleep for the kids with guitars
You can [C]kill the lights and the amplifiers
But [G]dreams don't care if you're [D]tired
Ain't no [G]turning off the warning
'Cause we are [Em]high on
and we're haunted
By the mu[C]sic in our bloodshot hearts
There ain't [G]no rest,
no [D]rest for the rock [Eb]stars
[Em]And it never changes,
whether you're [C]playing sold- out arenas
[G]Listening to whole crowd singing
every single word back at you
Or you're
[Em]Strumming along way past
your [C]bedtime dark
You trying [G]to stretch your fingers far
enough to play the first chord
From [Em]the little people staring
[C]on at a poster on the ceiling
[G]To the Rolling Stones on it, yeah,
they both know the feeling
[Em]The hunger, the fire, the do or the die,[C]
or the platinum handcuffs
[G]The curse, the cure, the love
Ain't no [D]rest [G]for the rock [Em]stars
Ain't [G]no sleep [D]for the kids with guitars
You can kill [G]the [Am]light[G]s
and the amp[D]lifiers
But dreams don't care
if you're [G]tired
Ain't no turning off the warning
'Cause we are [Em]high on
and we're haunted
By the [C]mu sic in our bloodshot hearts
There ain't [G]no rest, no [D]rest for the rock stars