Italy chords by Ghost Mice

Chords with lyrics

Here's another simple one, using only three repeating chords for the whole song. In this country, the duo
decides to make a change in their diet and eat some thinly-slide potato wedges that have been cooked in
hot oil, a staple food apparently referred to as "fries."

CHORDS USED:
C majorC
G+G
D MajorD

GHOST MICE: EUROPE

"Italy"


G+G            D MajorD
So there we were in the heart
   C majorC                G+G
Where everything that we know got its start
C majorC         D MajorD
Then it all fell apart
    G+G           C majorC
Well I guess that's what you get
     C majorC          G+G
When you spread yourself too thin

      G+G       D MajorD
But we had bigger fish to fry
   C majorC         G+G
Like findin' a place to sleep at night
 C majorC         D MajorD
I bought a slice of pizza
    G+G         C majorC
Just to try and kill some time
     C majorC      D MajorD     G+G
And for a minute everything was fine


     G+G       D MajorD
We had a number in our notebook
      C majorC        G+G
But it was way too late to call
    C majorC     D MajorD
It was well after midnight
     G+G               C majorC
When our train passed through the city walls
     C majorC     D MajorD    G+G
We didn't know this girl at all


  G+G       D MajorD
So we got out our travel book
  C majorC       G+G
To read about the neighborhood
C majorC          G+G
Said it wasn't very good
    G+G        C majorC
But it felt alright to me
   C majorC     G+G      D MajorD
All I wanted to do was go to sleep

   D MajorD         G+G
So we walked around the corner
    C majorC
And we found a cheap motel
  D MajorD        G+G
We knew we couldn't afford it
    C majorC
But we said, "Oh well"


         C majorC        G+G
When you've been on the train all day
     C majorC         G+G
In a big city in a new country
      C majorC       G+G
You're real tired and it's late
        C majorC       G+G
Sometimes it's better just to pay


      D MajorD
That's the way it goes
D MajorD
Sometimes you know
D MajorD
It'd be okay
D MajorD     C majorC   D MajorD    G+G
And after all we were in Rome


   G+G         D MajorD
Well it had been a long time
   C majorC       G+G
Since we had slept inside
  C majorC        D MajorD
We woke up late the next day
    G+G        C majorC
And the sun was shining bright
  C majorC         D MajorD        G+G
We paid our bill, we cried, we went outside


     G+G          D MajorD
Now they got their bread and circus
      C majorC   G+G
And I guess so do we
  C majorC          D MajorD
But they got theirs for free
       G+G         C majorC
I think that we're bein' ripped off
     C majorC      D MajorD      G+G
We must destroy all empires at any cost


      G+G       D MajorD
When you're standin' in a temple
        C majorC        G+G
Of a long-gone God it seems so simple
C majorC     D MajorD    G+G       C majorC
Everybody dies, no matter who you are
     C majorC           D MajorD      G+G
From far enough away our sun is just another star


    G+G        D MajorD
And the statue of Moses that we saw
  C majorC             G+G
Had horns on his head and was eight feet tall
C majorC         D MajorD
Maybe that was the case,
    G+G        C majorC
No it's not our place to say
C majorC         D MajorD        G+G
Maybe some things just don't translate


D MajorD         G+G
We called up this girl
    C majorC     G+G
Who had ordered a CD
      D MajorD       G+G
She was the first from Italy
    D MajorD       G+G
And we asked for hospitality
C majorC         G+G  C majorC        G+G
She said we could stay at her parents' place


   C majorC        G+G
They were so sweet to us
     C majorC       G+G
It was so nice to meet a punk
       D MajorD
She took good care of you and me
D MajorD
She bought us soy ice cream
D MajorD
Her mom cooked dinner every night
     C majorC    D MajorD   G+G
It was so hard for us to leave


G+G            D MajorD
And the stray dogs of Pompey
C majorC          G+G
Were our guides that day
C majorC
They became our friends,
D MajorD
We were a lot like them
   G+G       C majorC
They taught us many things
C majorC              D MajorD       G+G
And all they wanted was some food for their pay


G+G          D MajorD
Then we went to the coast
     C majorC         G+G
Where the roads are wound so close
    C majorC         D MajorD
And the buses bounce from side-to-side
  G+G           C majorC
We thought that we might die
C majorC              D MajorD         G+G
We couldn't find a place to sleep at all that night


D MajorD          G+G
The city filled with scooters
    C majorC     G+G
Held so many mysteries
 D MajorD        G+G
I saw the weirdest thing there
    D MajorD        G+G
That I think I'll ever see
     C majorC         G+G
It was a pizza topped with octopus,
 C majorC         G+G
A augmentedA whole arm on each slice


C majorC          G+G
But I got my dinner there
     C majorC         G+G
It was a pizza topped with fries
  D MajorD
And Italy was nice
D MajorD
Made us feel right at home
D MajorD
Our money's in the fountain
    C majorC   D MajorD    G+G
And we will return to Rome