Concrete chords by Thea Gilmore

Chords with lyrics

Capo 5. Chords are standard except G* below:

G*

e|--3-----|
BB|--------|
G+G|--------|
D MajorD|--------|
A augmentedA|-2------|
E MajorE|-2------|



E minorEm              C majorC
November in a rainstorm, the truest truth I ever heard
D MajorD               B7B7
The sound of babies crying in a hospital ward
E minorEm                  C majorC
Oh, like a bed of rushes, they spread love out on the concrete floor
D MajorD               B7B7           C majorC
Names, and dates, and faces I really can't remember anymore

E minorEm                 C majorC
We could hardly tell the difference between one year and another
D MajorD                 B7B7
Sun like pouring whiskey, snow like shedding skins of lovers
E minorEm             C majorC
And, I grew up with magic; free and wild as bindweed
D MajorD             B7B7                C majorC
Pushing for the boundary, pushing through the edges of the concrete

    G+G               G*    E minorEm
I'm the girl that bought a round-trip cross the Rubicon
B7B7                      C majorC       E minorEm
And I'm not sure that even I know where I'm coming from

E minorEm           C majorC
Sentimental tango when I was just fourteen
D MajorD                    B7B7
I could hear Astaire and Rogers tap their way across the screen
E minorEm                 C majorC
Oh, bullied and belittled, until the sun set in the concrete
D MajorD                B7B7         C majorC
I wore my sister's black skirt, all dressed up for Halloween

E minorEm                       C majorC
We could hardly tell the difference between the shouting and the quiet
D MajorD                        B7B7
It was the path of least resistance to stage my own private riot
E minorEm                 C majorC
And the walls tumbled like Babel, down around my feet
D MajorD             B7B7                 C majorC
Rhyme came in deliverance rising through the wreckage and the concrete

G+G                   G*    E minorEm
I'm the girl that bought a round-trip cross the Rubicon
B7B7                   C majorC      E minorEm
I'm not sure that even I know where I'm coming from

E minorEm                  C majorC
For a girl who loves her words, yeah, she loves her silence more
D MajorD               B7B7
Found a better example of what hearts and tongues are for
E minorEm                 C majorC
There is truth in your arm's love, there is truth in this song
D MajorD                    B7B7           C majorC
There is truth in the concrete and the nails that our lives are built upon