---------------------------------------------------------------------------- FAIL HARD TO REGAIN - Two Gallants ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuning: standard The intro and the last two lines of each verse are palm muted. Well once I knew a railway girl Her age was seventeen I gave her all I had to give But the baggage of my dreams Stole me from the games we played Scorned me for my mast And if she's gone she lingers on I beg you please don't ask T'was on her dark March evening Southbound I did ride My head was out the window When I found her at my side Asked where I was going to I told but where I came For the jails in which I've done my time I fail hard to regain Dark girl, dark girl it kills me so To watch you so afraid You know that you've been real to those When realness should be feigned Her eyes gone wide, "Alive," she cried Does pleasure ever last? We live to see, but patiently I beg you please don't ask She took me in despite my sins Fed me tea and such And as she fell just like a child I crumbled 'neath her touch I held my breath in fear to weep For the fragments of my brain See each day's but a moment that I fail hard to regain But as it goes the people it throws Our values to the street Whole world came and saint's gaze Impatience in his feet And captives of this paltry trade We curse our mortal past Forgive us though we all must go And where to please don't ask repear chords for last verse without lyrics last verse palm muted And now I am a misspent man Who knows not where he's been And though so sapped with suffering The worst is yet unseen Renounce myself for further wealth I take each breath in vain Still haunted by that railway girl I fail hard to regain (palm muted)