Concrete chords by Thea Gilmore

Capo 5. Chords are standard except G* below:

G*

e|--3-----|
B|--------|
G|--------|
D|--------|
A|-2------|
E|-2------|




Em                            C
November in a rainstorm, the truest truth I ever heard
D                              B7
The sound of babies crying in a hospital ward
Em                                    C
Oh, like a bed of rushes, they spread love out on the concrete floor
D                             B7                     C
Names, and dates, and faces I really can't remember anymore

Em                                  C
We could hardly tell the difference between one year and another
D                                  B7
Sun like pouring whiskey, snow like shedding skins of lovers
Em                          C
And, I grew up with magic; free and wild as bindweed
D                         B7                                C
Pushing for the boundary, pushing through the edges of the concrete

       G                              G*        Em
I'm the girl that bought a round-trip cross the Rubicon
B7                                           C             Em
And I'm not sure that even I know where I'm coming from

Em                      C
Sentimental tango when I was just fourteen
D                                       B7
I could hear Astaire and Rogers tap their way across the screen
Em                                 C
Oh, bullied and belittled, until the sun set in the concrete
D                               B7                  C
I wore my sister's black skirt, all dressed up for Halloween

Em                                             C
We could hardly tell the difference between the shouting and the quiet
D                                               B7
It was the path of least resistance to stage my own private riot
Em                                 C
And the walls tumbled like Babel, down around my feet
D                         B7                                 C
Rhyme came in deliverance rising through the wreckage and the concrete

G                                     G*        Em
I'm the girl that bought a round-trip cross the Rubicon
B7                                      C            Em
I'm not sure that even I know where I'm coming from

Em                                   C
For a girl who loves her words, yeah, she loves her silence more
D                             B7
Found a better example of what hearts and tongues are for
Em                                  C
There is truth in your arm's love, there is truth in this song
D                                       B7                      C
There is truth in the concrete and the nails that our lives are built upon