Skeleton Key chords by Banner Pilot

Chords with lyrics

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

Difficulty: Intermediate

Verse 1:
E MajorE              G#G#
Half asleep with the sun coming up out east
          F#F#              BB       F#F#    E MajorE
We're driving down Garfield Ave when you said a strange and significant thing
         G#G#              F#F#
I can remember the words - "this was a beautiful night
            BB      F#F#
It won't, it won't ever happen this way again"

Pre-chorus:
E MajorE             BB
No, my dear, nothing much grows around here
       F#F#             G#G#        F#F#
We carry our roots with us, a couple of weeds pulled up, misguided
E MajorE              BB              F#F#
Girl, you'll be the heroine of my book, the plot is the course we took
         G#G#     F#F#     E MajorE
The setting can't be nowhere else in the world

Chorus:
    BB
And the story opens up with you
            G#G#  F#F#
Your broken dreams and cheap perfume
      E MajorE
You're on a city bus, the rain it falls
             F#F#   G#G#
Your make up bleeds, the wind it howls
   BB
And I stumble on from Uptown bars
            G#G#   F#F#
I guess that's all I've got so far
         E MajorE
Yeah, but at the end, I don't know how
          F#F#   G#G#
You save me and you save yourself

Verse 2:
E MajorE                 G#G#
It ends so soon, the night and the fading moon
       F#F#              BB      F#F#
I put my hand inside yours, the city looks strange and significant
 E MajorE                    F#F#
I know these streets, the place where I'll live and die
         F#F#             BB      F#F#
Resigned to that fact, but I, I'm hoping it happens this way again

Pre-chorus:
E MajorE             BB
No, my dear, nothing much grows around here
       F#F#             G#G#        F#F#
We carry our roots with us, a couple of weeds pulled up, misguided
E MajorE              BB              F#F#
Girl, you'll be the heroine of my book, the plot is the course we took
         G#G#     F#F#     E MajorE
The setting can't be nowhere else in the world

Chorus:
    BB
And the story opens up with you
            G#G#  F#F#
Your broken dreams and cheap perfume
      E MajorE
You're on a city bus, the rain it falls
             F#F#   G#G#
Your make up bleeds, the wind it howls
   BB
And I stumble on from Uptown bars
            G#G#   F#F#
I guess that's all I've got so far
         E MajorE
Yeah, but at the end, I don't know how
        F#F#    G#G#
You save me and then you save yourself

Interlude:
BB  E MajorE
G#G# E MajorE

Chorus:
    BB
And the story opens up with you
            G#G#  F#F#
Your broken dreams and cheap perfume
      E MajorE
You're on a city bus, the rain it falls
             F#F#   G#G#
Your make up bleeds, the wind it howls
   BB
And I stumble on from Uptown bars
            G#G#   F#F#
I guess that's all I've got so far
         E MajorE
Yeah, but at the end, I don't know how
        F#F#    G#G#      E MajorE
You save me and then you save yourself

Outro:
BB
Fall asleep to the radio
G#G#
Try to keep what I got from you
F#F#             E MajorE
Hard to do in these dreary days