An Illustration Of Loneliness Sleepless In New York chords by Courtney Barnett

Chords with lyrics

Note: In her SXSW performance, Courtney plays all 4 chords in the barred in the FF shape:
F: 1st fret  G: 3rd Fret  C: 8th fret  Bb: 6th fret
In other performances she places an open C majorC shape and mostly leaves out the Bb.

G+G
I lay awake at four, staring at the wall

FF              C majorC        Bb majorBb
Counting all the cracks backwards in my best French

G+G
Reminds me of a book I skim-read in a surgery

FF           C majorC             Bb majorBb
All about palmistry, I wonder what's in store for me

   G+G                 FF
I pretend the plaster is the skin on my palms

               C majorC           Bb majorBb
And the cracks are representative of what is going on

G+G                           FF   C majorC
I lose a breath... my love-line seems intertwined with death

          G+G
I'm thinking of you too

G+G      FF      C majorC  Bb majorBb

G+G
I lay awake at three, staring at the ceiling

FF             C majorC         Bb majorBb
It's a kind of off-white, maybe it's a cream

G+G
There's oily residue seeping from the kitchen

FF                C majorC                  Bb majorBb
It's art-deco necromantic chic, all the dinner plates are kitsch with

G+G                               FF
Irish Wolf Hounds, French baguettes wrapped loose around their necks

          C majorC          G+G
I think I'm hungry, I'm thinking of you too
          FF   C majorC Bb majorBb
I'm thinking of you too
           G+G
I'm thinking of you too
          FF   C majorC  Bb majorBb
I'm thinking of you too
            G+G