St Joe Keeps Us Safe chords by Aaron West And The Roaring Twenties

Chords with lyrics

For the verse after the chorus play Bm, C, D MajorD barred and one string at a time

G+G
I got sick of the silence,
   B minorBm
I got tired of the dark,
    C majorC            D MajorD         E minorEm
I was sleeping in late, I was wasting away, I was dying in small parts.
   G+G             B minorBm
So I lit up a smoke and, Took a walk through the park.
  C majorC              D MajorD              E minorEm
The dead leaves scrape concrete making it sound like you're next to me, arm in arm.
   D MajorD
I was putting holes in the drywall.
    E minorEm    D MajorD       C majorC
I was hoping you'd save me from me.
     G+G
I'm gonna go see my mother.
     B minorBm
Take the LIRR.
     C majorC               D MajorD           E minorEm
Walk the cold Brooklyn streets towards Astoria, Queens out to West Babylon.
 G+G
I walked up the driveway.
    B minorBm
Saw my Daddy's old car.
   C majorC              D MajorD          E minorEm
He's been gone for months but we covered it up and it sits in the yard.
   D MajorD    B minorBm    C majorC
Well I spent my whole life saying I'd never need no one
  G+G    FF    E minorEm
but I think I might need you.
        A augmentedA             C majorC     C minorCm
I think I might need you. I think I might need you.
  G+G
We sat in the kitchen.
       B minorBm
My mother's a soldier of god,
    C majorC            D MajorD            E minorEm
and so paintings of Jesus, and statues of saints still adorn all the halls,
     G+G
But we'll never go hungry,
       B minorBm
thanks to the infant of Prague,
    C majorC             D MajorD          E minorEm
and St. Joe keeps us safe cause we buried him deep in a hole in the backyard.
 D MajorD
I know things ain't been good since dad died.
 E minorEm       D MajorD       C majorC
I know you don't need this from me.
  G+G
But mama, I'm breaking.
      B minorBm
There's no light in the dark.
C majorC                 D MajorD            E minorEm
Dianne left this week. She said, "Son, look at me. I know we ain't been this low before
  G+G
and I'm sorry Aaron.
      B minorBm
I know this year has been hard.
     C majorC           D MajorD             E minorEm
If you're hurt then I'm hurt. I won't make it worse. I'm always in your corner."
   D MajorD    B minorBm    C majorC
Well I spent my whole life saying I'd never need no one
  G+G    FF    E minorEm
but I think I might need you.
        A augmentedA             C majorC     C minorCm
I think I might need you. I think I might need you.
A minorAm     B minorBm
Something's wrong.
    G+G    C majorC    E minorEm
I been waiting here too long.
   A minorAm             B minorBm        G+G       C majorC
She said, "I knew something was wrong. You ain't called here in too
 E minorEm
long.
         FF           C#C#          G+G
Take the car and run. Take the car and run. Take the car and run."