The Basement chords by Brian Sauer
Guitar chords with lyrics
- 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
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