A
 A                 [ch]A+[/ch]                A6               [ch]A+[/ch]                A          [ch]A+[/ch]              A6
Fingers blistered from the nightly scratching at the window which won't open far enough to let air in.
           D
The house wins.
                     A
Oh the house always wins.
 A                [ch]A+[/ch]              A6                [ch]A+[/ch]               A                  [ch]A+[/ch]             A6
Feral cats are screaming at the clouds beneath the window with the crask so small that nothing gets within.
           D
The house wins.
                     A
Oh the house always wins.
           E                      D
You don't have to be alone to be lonely,
                       A
You might as well give in.
 A             [ch]A+[/ch]             A6              [ch]A+[/ch]             A             [ch]A+[/ch]             A6
Telephones are howling at the cats out in the alley and the window offers nothing in the din.
           D
The house wins.
                     A
Oh the house always wins.
  A                [ch]A+[/ch]            A6                 [ch]A+[/ch]
Clouds uncage the car alarms to chase the cats and telephones.
 A                [ch]A+[/ch]               A6
Fingers rake and rasp away their skin.
           D
The house wins.
                     A
Oh the house always wins.
           E                      D
You don't have to be alone to be lonely,
                       A
You might as well give in.
                 E                      D
Yeah, you don't have to be alone to be lonely,
                       A
You might as well give in.
D E A x6 
E D A
A             [ch]A+[/ch]          A6            [ch]A+[/ch]         A           [ch]A+[/ch]               A6
Ice age upon catastrophic ice age of selection and only one result has trickled in...
           D
The house wins.
                     A
Oh the house always wins.
   A            [ch]A+[/ch]                A6           [ch]A+[/ch]                   A                     [ch]A+[/ch]               A6
If evil were a lesser breed then justice after all these years the righteous would have freed the world of sin
           D
The house wins.
                     A
Oh the house always wins.
           E                      D
You don't have to be alone to be lonely,
                       A
You might as well give in.
           E                      D
You don't have to be alone to be lonely,
                       A
You might as well give in.
           E                     D
You don't have to be sick to be dying
                       A
You might as well give in.
           E                    D
You don't have to have lost to be lost.
        A
Oh give in.
           E                      D
You don't have to be alone to be lonely,
                       A