The Basement chords by Brian Sauer

• Difficulty: Beginner

🎸 Verse 1:
D                                 G
Come speak with me a while in the basement
     A                 A7             D
Come creeping down the creaky wooden stairs
         D                           G
Let your eyes adjust to the newfound dimness
          A              A7              D     D7
Fill your lungs with the cool and musty air



🎸 Chorus:
G                              D
It's comforting at first, the quiet and the dark
        G                        D
But my presense is unnerving and strange
    F#m                            G
You never plan to stay long, but I cannot let you leave
      A           A7                  D
Don't go upstairs stay down here with me

🎸 Verse 2:
D                                        G
This is the dominion of your childhood imagination
      A                 A7                   D
Where you and your siblings used to romp and play
     D                                  G
Down here you don't have to worry about breaking things
A              A7             D        D7
Everything is broken in some way

🎸 Chorus:
G                                  D
I remind you that I didn't always sit here
    G                                   D
My throne was just the old couches from upstairs
    F#m                             G
You find that you're forgetting the times before we'd meet
      A           A7                  D
Don't go upstairs stay down here with me

🎸 Verse 3:
D                                     G
We got that old TV and the old video games
        A                 A7                       D
You can read the books on the shelf you've already read
    D                               G
We get a few AM stations down here clearly
         A                           A7              D        D7
And it's better than listening to the voices in your head

🎸 Chorus:
G                                  D
Distraction turns to mindless consumption
            G                                   D
I've got a skipping record we can listen to for hours
    F#m                                   G
Embrace the numbing feeling
I think it's just the thing you need
      A           A7                  D
Don't go upstairs stay down here with me

🎸 Interlude:
G   D   G   D  F#m  G  A   A7  D

🎸 Verse 4:
D                                         G
Up there they've got murderes with broken badges
               A                       A7                   D
You got their accomplices beating the shit out of peaceful folk
    D                                         G
There's a hundred thousand people coughing to death
       A                A7              D        D7
While keyboard jockeys claim that it's a hoax

🎸 Chorus:
G                                               D
I'll whisper the words of cruel and thoughtless people
       G                                       D
We can board up the windows that let a little light in
       F#m                        G
You'll argue for compassion
I'll convince you of defeat
      A           A7                  D
Don't go upstairs stay down here with me


🎸 Verse 5:
D                                        G
Where we'll contemplate the morality of fences
     A                    A7           D
And compare ourselves to broken old machines
    D                                                 G
We'll sip the beers that leave us worse off than they used to
    A              A7          D        D7
And pontificate on what it all means


🎸 Chorus:
G                                      D
Your words will echo off bare concrete walls
     G                                           D
And settle like nothingness with the dust on the floor
    F#m                           G
I'm mocking you and laughing, you know I'm not unique
      A           A7                  D
Don't go upstairs stay down here with me


G                                   D
You shout you find our conversation tiring
         G                             D
And you stumble to the stairs an empty shell
         F#m                        G
You're a little more broken, after every time we speak
      A           A7                  D
Don't go upstairs stay down here with me