The Basement chords by Brian Sauer

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Verse 1:
D MajorD                 G+G
Come speak with me a while in the basement
   A augmentedA         A7A7       D MajorD
Come creeping down the creaky wooden stairs
     D MajorD              G+G
Let your eyes adjust to the newfound dimness
     A augmentedA       A7A7       D MajorD   D7D7
Fill your lungs with the cool and musty air


🎸 Chorus:
G+G               D MajorD
It's comforting at first, the quiet and the dark
    G+G            D MajorD
But my presense is unnerving and strange
  F# minorF#m              G+G
You never plan to stay long, but I cannot let you leave
   A augmentedA      A7A7         D MajorD
Don't go upstairs stay down here with me

🎸 Verse 2:
D MajorD                    G+G
This is the dominion of your childhood imagination
   A augmentedA         A7A7          D MajorD
Where you and your siblings used to romp and play
   D MajorD                 G+G
Down here you don't have to worry about breaking things
A augmentedA       A7A7       D MajorD    D7D7
Everything is broken in some way

🎸 Chorus:
G+G                 D MajorD
I remind you that I didn't always sit here
  G+G                  D MajorD
My throne was just the old couches from upstairs
  F# minorF#m               G+G
You find that you're forgetting the times before we'd meet
   A augmentedA      A7A7         D MajorD
Don't go upstairs stay down here with me

🎸 Verse 3:
D MajorD                   G+G
We got that old TV and the old video games
    A augmentedA         A7A7            D MajorD
You can read the books on the shelf you've already read
  D MajorD                G+G
We get a few AM stations down here clearly
     A augmentedA              A7A7       D MajorD    D7D7
And it's better than listening to the voices in your head

🎸 Chorus:
G+G                 D MajorD
Distraction turns to mindless consumption
      G+G                  D MajorD
I've got a skipping record we can listen to for hours
  F# minorF#m                  G+G
Embrace the numbing feeling
I think it's just the thing you need
   A augmentedA      A7A7         D MajorD
Don't go upstairs stay down here with me

🎸 Interlude:
G+G  D MajorD  G+G  D MajorD F# minorF#m G+G A augmentedA  A7A7 D MajorD

🎸 Verse 4:
D MajorD                     G+G
Up there they've got murderes with broken badges
        A augmentedA            A7A7          D MajorD
You got their accomplices beating the shit out of peaceful folk
  D MajorD                     G+G
There's a hundred thousand people coughing to death
    A augmentedA        A7A7       D MajorD    D7D7
While keyboard jockeys claim that it's a hoax

🎸 Chorus:
G+G                        D MajorD
I'll whisper the words of cruel and thoughtless people
    G+G                    D MajorD
We can board up the windows that let a little light in
    F# minorF#m            G+G
You'll argue for compassion
I'll convince you of defeat
   A augmentedA      A7A7         D MajorD
Don't go upstairs stay down here with me

🎸 Verse 5:
D MajorD                    G+G
Where we'll contemplate the morality of fences
   A augmentedA          A7A7      D MajorD
And compare ourselves to broken old machines
  D MajorD                         G+G
We'll sip the beers that leave us worse off than they used to
  A augmentedA       A7A7     D MajorD    D7D7
And pontificate on what it all means


🎸 Chorus:
G+G                   D MajorD
Your words will echo off bare concrete walls
   G+G                      D MajorD
And settle like nothingness with the dust on the floor
  F# minorF#m              G+G
I'm mocking you and laughing, you know I'm not unique
   A augmentedA      A7A7         D MajorD
Don't go upstairs stay down here with me


G+G                  D MajorD
You shout you find our conversation tiring
     G+G               D MajorD
And you stumble to the stairs an empty shell
     F# minorF#m            G+G
You're a little more broken, after every time we speak
   A augmentedA      A7A7         D MajorD
Don't go upstairs stay down here with me