Anniversary chords by Brandi Carlile

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

🎸 Verse 1:
         G                         Dadd4add9/B
Give me space from the distance, a break in the silence
  C           F           G       D/F#
A face to the surface and open my eyes
        G                         Dadd4add9/B
Give me words with a purpose that hurt us and burn us
    C          F         G          D/F#
For brittling, kindling, tumbleweed lies
    Em                Dadd4add9/B
She pulled my eye and touched me twice
  C                        G          G/F#
I froze when I felt the connecting of wires
   Em                     Dadd4add9/B
So what I remembered, the accidental fires
  Am7           Am7/G    F      D/F#
I guess I must still be alive

🎸 Verse 2:
G                         Dadd4add9/B
Go ahead and pine for the pageantry of youth
C            F                 G            D/F#
Claim it and dream it, all the pretty girls do
        G                            Dadd4add9/B
I could learn not to care, lose some weight, change my hair
       C                             Dadd4add9
What a waste of the things I've been through
           Em                        Dadd4add9/B
It doesn't happen in the dark or the silence, it's long
     C                       G             G/F#
It's there or it isn't, it's right or it's wrong
        Em                                Dadd4add9/B
I feel smug when it's powerful, when it's wordless, mechanical
C                  F         Am7  Am7/G     F
Forceful when it's angry and sad  when it's gone
D/F#
 Yeah, it's sad when it's gone


🎸 Interlude: 1  2  3  4 | 1  2  3  4  | 1  2  3  4 | 1  2  3  4  :============|=============|============|=============: G          | Dadd4add9/B | G          | Dadd4add9/B :


🎸 Verse 3:
G                           Dadd4add9/B
Someone new reminds you and that's how it ends
  C           F                  G           D/F#
Unfolds and rewinds you, and the years melt away
   G                                  Dadd4add9/B
Of course it was wrong, you must have known it all along
          C        F               G          D/F#
It wasn't lazy, complacently, words you can't say
    Em                          Dadd4add9/B
And now you don't have to, it's finally right
       C                     G             G/F#
It was all in the chemistry, now you don't fight
            Em                      Dadd4add9/B
Through the night for connection, acceptance, deception
        C       F              Am7  Am7/G      F     D/F#
There's no recollection, only skin, touch, and sight


🎸 Verse 4:
      G                         Bm
Thank God for reprieve, for the primitive peace
   C        F          G      D/F#
Discovering beautiful, easier ways
    G                        Dadd4add9/B
And closing the door on that joyless old bore
    C       F          Am7  Am7/G  F     D/F#
Anniversary mercifully fading    away
       Em                     Dadd4add9/B
It was just an old promise, a dogma at best
   C                        G           G/F#
A square on the calendar, a bulletproof vest
        Em                    Dadd4add9/B
Be your own magic feather and put it to rest
        C                     Dadd4add9
Give it back to the keeper of days


🎸 Outro:
                      G      Bm7
It's just an ordinary day now
                      G      Bm7
It's just an ordinary day
                 G   Bm7   G
It's an ordinary day