Terrible Thing chords by The Killers

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

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

🎸 Intro:

Eb MajorEb Eb Eb MajorEb Eb


🎸 Verse 1:
  Eb MajorEb       Bb majorBb         Eb MajorEb
The parking lot is rammed with shotgun pickup trucks
    AbAb                Eb MajorEb
At the Jones Rubber plant where all the guys end up
AbAb                    Eb MajorEb
Beer-drinking boy scouts living life like they ain't stuck
     C minorCm       Bb majorBb           AbAb
On these quicksand streets with their girls in a sling
     C minorCm       Bb majorBb         Eb MajorEb
I'm in my bedroom on the verge of a terrible thing

🎸 Verse 2:
        Eb MajorEb       Bb majorBb    Eb MajorEb
Around here, we all take up our cross and hang on His holy name
    AbAb                     Eb MajorEb
But the cards that I was dealt will get you thrown out of the game
  AbAb                         Eb MajorEb
Hey momma, can't you see your boy is wrapped up in the strangle silk
    C minorCm    Bb majorBb         AbAb
Of this cobweb town where culture is king?
     C minorCm       Bb majorBb         Eb MajorEb
I'm in my bedroom on the verge of a terrible thing


🎸 Chorus:
      AbAb  C minorCm         Eb MajorEb
I close my eyes   and think of the water
      AbAb     C minorCm      Bb majorBb
Out at the Salt Creek   when I was young


🎸 Verse 3:
Eb MajorEb        Bb majorBb       Eb MajorEb
Down at Old Mill Park, half the town's in tow
  AbAb               Eb MajorEb
To crown the Bathing Beauty of the rodeo
     AbAb                   Eb MajorEb
While her mother fights back proud tears a young cowboy gives the nod
     C minorCm        Bb majorBb           AbAb
The chute opens, bull draws blood, and the gift is accepted by God
     C minorCm        Bb majorBb           AbAb
The chute opens, bull draws blood, and the gift is accepted by God
    C minorCm        Bb majorBb        AbAb
In this barbed wire town   of barbed wire dreams
     C minorCm       Bb majorBb         Eb MajorEb
I'm in my bedroom on the verge of a terrible thing


🎸 Chorus:
      AbAb  C minorCm         Eb MajorEb
I close my eyes   and think of the water
      AbAb     C minorCm      Bb majorBb
Out at the Salt Creek   when I was young
      AbAb  C minorCm         Eb MajorEb
I close my eyes   and think of the water
        AbAb   C minorCm      Bb majorBb
Out at the Salt Creek   when I was young