Truce chords by The Dresden Dolls

Chords with lyrics

Note: occasionally on the Cadd9Cadd9 chords an extra note is added to make it go from x32030
x32031 and then back again. also during the "and special occasions..." part of the verse
is a discordant chord shift but just alter the Dsus2Dsus2 chord briefly from x00230 to x00330
then back again.

Intro

  Dsus2Dsus2                          C minorCm
e|-------------------------------------------------------------5--|
BB|-3--3---3-----3--3--3--3---3----3--3--3--3---3----3--3---4---4--|
G+G|-2----0----0--2-----2----0---0--2-----2----0---0--2------5---5--|
D MajorD|-0------------0-----0-----------0-----0-----------0------5---5--|
A augmentedA|----------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|----------------------------------------------------------------|

Verse 1

Dsus2Dsus2
you can have washington i'll take new jersey
                    Cadd9Cadd9
you can have london but i want new york city

Dsus2Dsus2
i should get providence i've got a job now
                     Cadd9Cadd9
los angeles - obvious - that's where you belong now

(continue chords as above)
you can have africa asia australia
as long as you keep your hands off cafe pamplona

we can split germany right down the middle
you'd hate it there anyway
take berlin and well call it even

you can take all of the carry-on baggage
i'll trade the saskia jokes for the alphabet language

and special occasions we'll split between parents
who forced us to hate them on alternating weekends

DsusDsus
you call it over and i call you psycho, significant other?
              Cadd9Cadd9
just say we were lovers and we'll call it even
FF     G+G Dsus2Dsus2
we'll call it even


Chorus/Refrain

G minorGm          Bb majorBb
i am the ground zero ex-friend you ordered
FF           Dsus2Dsus2
disgused as a hero to get past your borders
G minorGm             Bb majorBb
i know when i'm wanted i'll leave when you ask me to
FF            Dsus2Dsus2
mind my own business and speak when i'm spoken to

G minorGm       Bb majorBb
i am the tower around which you orbited
FF          Dsus2Dsus2
i am not proud i am just taking orders
G minorGm             Bb majorBb
i fall to the groud within hours of impact
FF         C minorCm
i hit back if hit and attack if attacked

Verse 2

Dsus2Dsus2
you get route 2 between concord and lexington
                   Cadd9Cadd9
i want mass ave from the sqaure to my apartment

Dsus2Dsus2
and if we should meet through some misunderstanding
                  Cadd9Cadd9
ill be very sweet very patient and forgiving
C minorCm
(now get off my side of the state)

Dsus2Dsus2
and if we should see one another in passing
                        Cadd9Cadd9
despite these techniques there is sometimes no avoiding
C minorCm
(there must be some kind of mistake)

Dsus2Dsus2
we'll raise high our white flags and bow heads and shake hands
                    Cadd9Cadd9
declaring the land we're on unamerican we'll call it even
FF     G+G Dsus2Dsus2
we'll call it even


Chorus/Refrain

G minorGm       Bb majorBb
i am the tower around which you orbited
FF          Dsus2Dsus2
i am not proud i am just taking orders
G minorGm             Bb majorBb
i fall to the groud within hours of impact
FF         C minorCm
i hit back if hit and attack if attacked

G minorGm        Bb majorBb
i am an accident waiting to happen
FF              Dsus2Dsus2
i'm laughing like mad as you strangle the captain
G minorGm           Bb majorBb
my place may be taken, but make no mistake
FF                  C minorCm
from a little black black box i can say without shame
C minorCm              C minorCm
that you've lost, that you've lost, do you know what you've lost?


Outro

G+G
so take whatever you'd like
Bb majorBb
i'll strike like the States on fire
FF
you won't sleep very tight
C majorC
no hiding no safe covers
G+G
make your bed and now lie
Bb majorBb
just like you always do
FF
you can fake it for the papers
C majorC
but i'm on to you, i'm on to you

G+G
so take whatever you'd like
Bb majorBb
i'll strike like the States on fire
FF
you won't sleep very tight
C majorC
no hiding no safe covers
G+G
make your bed and now lie
Bb majorBb
just like you always do
FF
you can fake it for the papers
C majorC
but i'm on to you, i'm on to you, i'm on to you, i'm on to you!


Dsus2Dsus2 Cmin repeated to end