Chords with lyrics
Tuning: EADGBE
Verse 1:
FF C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC (Bass run) FF
Well boy you've got it wrong, golden calf or not, I bet you're still talking about me ugly.
FF C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC (Bass run) Bb majorBb
I never wanted her to give me all she's got and I never wanted her to love me.
Bb majorBb BbmBbm FF G+G Bb majorBb
But just like you I was drawn to her eyes, just like you she went and left me.
Bb majorBb BbmBbm FF G+G BbmBbm
Ah, just like you I can't forget the night, watching that pretty thing undressing, ah.
A augmentedA DmDm Bb majorBb FF
And you said she could run around with anyone but me.
A augmentedA DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC
I couldn't play by your rules boy and neither could she.
FF A augmentedA DmDm C majorC Bb majorBb
So I laid her down in a gossamer gown on the same bed that you did.
Chorus:
FF A augmentedA
And the shadows played on the wall. And she told me her closet talk.
DmDm C majorC Bb majorBb
It's funny you'd think I care at all what you see in me
FF A augmentedA
You're crazy calling that girl a whore, cried like a baby behind her door,
DmDm C majorC Bb majorBb
Your temper tantrums settle your scores, shit-talk everything that breathes
FF C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC (bass run) FF
And call me whatever you need.
Verse 2:
FF C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC (Bass run) FF
Well boy you've got it wrong, golden calf or not, I bet you're too dumb to know the difference.
FF C majorC Bb majorBb C majorC (Bass run) Bb majorBb
You're talking like a saint, said throw it in the fire even though you're the one who built him.
Bb majorBb BbmBbm FF G+G Bb majorBb
Gathered the jewelry, melted it down, made for yourself to go idolize.
Bb majorBb BbmBbm FF G+G BbmBbm
But that wasn't me, I already jumped town, catching up to your runaway bride.
A augmentedA DmDm Bb majorBb FF
And you said she could mop the floor with any modern man.
A augmentedA DmDm Bb majorBb C majorC
I wish I played by your rules boy 'cause now I know she can.
FF A augmentedA DmDm C majorC Bb majorBb
She took my heart in the parking lot from the moment we first kissed.
Chorus:
FF A augmentedA
Now I'm stuck in some foreign land between my girl and a waste of time
DmDm C majorC Bb majorBb
Aside from loving all through the night, I'm not so different than you.
FF A augmentedA
High as a kite on the church pew there, so infantile in your wild despairs.
DmDm C majorC Bb majorBb
I get it boy, you're the perfect pair. That kind of love it takes two.
Bb majorBb
So call me whatever you do.
Interlude:
Bb majorBb BbmBbm FF G+G
Bb majorBb BbmBbm FF G+G
BbmBbm
Outro:
C majorC Bb majorBb FF Bb majorBb
But when the party's over honey and your key to the kingdom don't fit the new lock
C majorC Bb majorBb FF Bb majorBb
And everybody's shoving camels through the eye of a needle and you're punching the clock
C majorC Bb majorBb FF Bb majorBb
Yeah when your new squeeze talks both your ears off, baby, you've got that open-road feeling
C majorC Bb majorBb BbmBbm FF
You send your regards when your hea-rt is ripe for the stealing
C majorC Bb majorBb A augmentedA G+G
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