Old Death chords by Car Colors

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Intro:

G       G       D       D Dsus4
Am      Am      C       C C/B

Verse 1:
G                         D       D Dsus4
   Ex-girls sing it from my mouth
Am                   C     C C/B
   Advise, any old crushes
G           D       D Dsus4
   Jupiter 41, help
Am                            C    C C/B
   I'm marooned on Wildwood rushes

Am               Am     G           C
   What follows: lowest points, sad ventures, bits of my
G             Bm   Bm Bbm
   Horse victories
Am                            C                    G
   I'm stuck on witching hour work my own boys won't know

        G       D       D Dsus4
Am      Am      C       C C/B

Verse 2:
G                            D       D Dsus4
   If the meadow lends itself to war
Am                        C    C C/B
   And wrens, set cadets going
G                                D            D Dsus4
   And if ten years pulling at the oar’s been
Am                       C    C C/B
   For eight carols to rowing
Am             Am      G        C
   And if easy laurels catching crowns's how I had dumb
G           Bm     Bm Bbm
Hope this would go
Am                                 C                   G
   Then how damned each day I am undoing done songs so that

        D       Am      C
G       D       Am      C

Verse 3:
G                        D
   Wind Runs Sindia Aground Here
       Am                                      C         C
As the same wind once kissed our own house's wrap-around
G                               D
Cancer bit you in two halves, a fox into the rabbits
Am                                  C
Old dеath enters from the lеft, the crowd screams in approval
        Bm
Some by knife, some asleep, botched doctoring, drowned and
D
Blood, blood, blood

Verse 4:
        C                       Am
Witness Old Death handing out his card
    Em                    G
And hearts stop as it's handled
    D                      D
Linotype, Roman Type in Chancery Hand read:
 Am                  Am
"Run, run, if you're able"
          Bm                      Bm
While, by same winds back to the island
          D         D
That I started from

Bridge:
C       Em  C Em
That's down
C                           Em
   This song's worked in denial
         C                                      Em
That our young won't soon toss the first trowel over us
      C                                Em
One A.M. here replaying cards, work to retake beaches I’ve lost
       C
Will I steer home solo by stars
       Em   D/F# G
After Ilium     albums
              C               Am               Em D/F#     G G
When answer, "No! No! No! No! No! No! No! Not all      of us  "
          C               Am                Em D/F#       G
Singing, "Up! Up! Up! Up! Up! Up! Up! Give up
give up"

Verse 5:
Am           C
   First desk, first pet
Em               G
   First not-a-band at home
               Dm         F
Little comes quick, forty-six
  F            F
I quit to the boats
Am           C
   This hitch, this lift
Em               G
   Met Juan at Metrodome
           Dm                G
He and I kissed that night under the Perseids
F            C
   Oh God, Death
Am            C
   Scene flips: fish sticks
Em              G
   Five-foot Dimetrodon
           Dm       G
Isn't it bliss? Oh, kids
    F          C
Oh, life, Ithaka!
Am               C
   From said wars to bed years
Bm             Bm      D D
   Our one gun in this fight

G       D       Am      C (x2)

Verse 6:
G                  D            Am  C
   The wind whips oaks over veranda
       G                         D             Am       C
In the same way wind kissed our old house's wrap-around
      G                 D
Ten p.m. here Brooklyn by stars
      Am                   C
Faded laps of shuttles that lost
          G                          D
Week that mom went blacked out the whole horrors
 Am         C
Of poor Columbia

G       D       Am      C (x2)

Outro:
G       G       D       D Dsus4
Am      Am      C       C/B

G                               D   D Dsus4
   This record's starting with regrets
Am                           C   C C/B
   A short tour then show’s over
Am                    Em/B       C
   The stopwatch that started in years ends in days
       G
No one moment replays
D
   And the goals have been moved anyway
Am                            Em/B        C
   To spend it all on working mics more and more seems a waste
      G
A baton-pass to kids's the best way that it's faced
D
   And besides all the work gets erased
Am               Em/B             C
   And I cut the proms and played Red Clay then all day
     G
Failed school, now I play
D
   And there's more on the way
Am                           Em/B                C
   Defaulting bank loans, neglected friends, and never did call to say
C
Show me the secret way