Cartwheel chords by Lucy Dacus

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

🎸 Intro:

DmDm C majorC


🎸 Verse 1:
DmDm
Here and there and gone again

Firefly juice on your skin
    C majorC
You're glowing like an atom bomb

This natural thing that you've undone
DmDm
Outgrew older sister's clothes again

Won't admit you're growing tall and thin
  C majorC
You like your body pulling at the seams

You're not prepared for what the future brings
DmDm
Curse words and empty cups

Cracked blacktop curling up
C majorC
Heatwave by midday
G+G
Heat lightning on a summer night
  DmDm
And I remember when you used to call

Holed up in the closet in the hall
C majorC
Scared you wouldn't live to forty-five

The same age as your father when he died
G+G
You'd say, "We need to talk
FF
Sneak out, meet me on your block"
A minorAm
I'd sit by you, silent on the curb
C majorC
What to say when there is not a word?
DmDm
Spell broke at daybreak

Light another candle on the cake
C majorC
Cartwheel and a broken wrist
             (DmDm)
Skin scarred and sun-kissed

🎸 Interlude:
DmDm C majorC x3

🎸 Verse 2:
DmDm
When you told me 'bout your first time

The soccer player at the senior high
 C majorC
I felt my body crumple to the floor

Betrayal like I'd never felt before
DmDm
I thought back to many years ago

A augmentedA late-night promise on the telephone
   C majorC
We'd build a house of twigs and vines

Grow old together just to pass the time
G+G
Now there's only past and present day
 FF
I can't believe a word you say
  A minorAm
The future isn't worth its weight in gold
  C majorC       E minorEm       G+G
The future is a benevolent black hole

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