Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Key: E MajorE
Difficulty: Intermediate
Key: E MajorE
Verse 1:
E MajorE F# minorF#m
Starlight is streaming down a dead-end street
C# minorC#m BB A augmentedA
Lead our way back to something good
E MajorE F# minorF#m
It's high time we turned around this lousy luck
C# minorC#m BB A augmentedA
You know tonight I think that we could
Verse 2:
E MajorE
Raise my glass to starting over
F# minorF#m C# minorC#m
Knock on wood we're getting warmer now
BB A augmentedA
It's hard to read the street signs
E MajorE
In these dim lights and soft reflections
F# minorF#m
No dead ends just new directions
C# minorC#m BB A augmentedA
Say that I think we're on an incline
A augmentedA
Don't you?
Chorus 1:
E MajorE
I lose myself sometimes
BB
on these broken streets
C# minorC#m
But I still dream
A augmentedA
I cough I breathe
E MajorE BB
So beat me down I won't ever leave
E MajorE
And even though I bruise myself
BB
somehow on the same concrete
C# minorC#m
And lose some skin this world
A augmentedA E MajorE
we're in can do its worst
BB
It'll never win
C# minorC#m BB A augmentedA
We float away like fireflies
C# minorC#m BB
in city night Across the park
A augmentedA
where the flowers end
A augmentedA
and the nothing starts
Verse 3:
E MajorE
Until we're half dead and
F# minorF#m
scheming here in your backyard
C# minorC#m BB A augmentedA
Find some truth in the wine we spill
E MajorE F# minorF#m
Fell short tonight but we'll keep coming back
C# minorC#m BB A augmentedA
We always have and we always will
Chorus 2:
E MajorE
I lose myself sometimes
BB
on these broken streets
C# minorC#m
But I still dream
A augmentedA
I cough I breathe
E MajorE BB
So beat me down I won't ever leave
E MajorE
And even though I bruise myself
BB
somehow on the same concrete
C# minorC#m
And lose some skin this world
A augmentedA E MajorE
we're in can do its worst
BB
It'll never win
Bridge:
E MajorE
But right now I don't care
C# minorC#m
Your smile is like a
G# minorG#m A augmentedA
cure to my poison luck
E MajorE C# minorC#m
In pitch black we lay back
G# minorG#m A augmentedA
And laugh until the sun comes up
A augmentedA
And we hold fast
Outro:
E MajorE C# minorC#m E MajorE C# minorC#m E MajorE