Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
Verse:
C minorCm G minorGm
You don’t lie to me
Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb C minorCm G minorGm
and for all of your poison I enjoy your company
Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb C minorCm G minorGm
All the colors that you hide behind your mouth like poetry
Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb C minorCm G minorGm Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb
As you slowly take me prisoner I swallow up the key
C minorCm G minorGm
Don’t call and don’t write
Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb C minorCm G minorGm
you’re quietly courageous and we own the night
Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb C minorCm G minorGm
naked and contagious we turn off the lights
Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb C minorCm G minorGm Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb
hoping that nobody hears us
Chorus:
C minorCm G minorGm Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
And no fortune lady is gonna come and save me
C minorCm G minorGm Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
No god will ride the escalator down to the Midwest
C minorCm G minorGm Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
And I might be crazy but at least I got my baby
C minorCm G minorGm Eb MajorEb G minorGm C minorCm G minorGm Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb
and we’re free inside the bars that keep us deep within my chest
Verse:
C minorCm G minorGm Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb
When I was small, long long before I knew you
C minorCm G minorGm
I knew how to stand tall
Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb
I knew how to breathe without you
C minorCm G minorGm Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb
And I spoke to the dead before I learned how to fear them
C minorCm G minorGm
they sat with me on my bed
Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb
Watched me as I slept
C minorCm G minorGm
and I felt safe and sound
Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb C minorCm G minorGm
A augmentedA leader with my confidence, I cut the evil down
Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb
with a sword of common sense
C minorCm G minorGm Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb
I took care of things I loved with all my heart
C minorCm G minorGm Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb
What happened to these things? It’s like I woke up in my future…
Chorus:
C minorCm G minorGm Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
And no fortune lady is gonna come and save me
C minorCm G minorGm Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
No god will ride the escalator down to the Midwest
C minorCm G minorGm Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
And I might be crazy but at least I got my baby
C minorCm G minorGm Eb MajorEb G minorGm Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb
and we’re free inside the bars that keep us deep within my chest
C minorCm G minorGm Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
And no fortune lady is gonna come and save me
C minorCm G minorGm Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
No god will ride the escalator down to the Midwest
C minorCm G minorGm Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
And I might be crazy but at least I got my baby
C minorCm G minorGm Eb MajorEb G minorGm C minorCm G minorGm Bb majorBb Eb MajorEb
and we’re free inside the bars that keep us deep within my chest