Anniversary Chords

🎸 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