Chords with lyrics
** (C# minorC#m) is not played by the guitar in the recording but is alluded to by the bass. Sounds best to play it
if you are playing solo guitar.
Intro:
F# minorF#m
Verse 1:
F# minorF#m B7B7
Drawn to the sorta library magic
E MajorE A augmentedA
Whispering through the dusty aisles
F# minorF#m
Watching all the thinkers read
B7B7
Trying to keep a grown man quiet's like
E MajorE
Pulling teeth on a winters eve
A augmentedA
Cracks and poles and unfamiliar roads
F# minorF#m B7B7 E MajorE
I'm on this one to find out
Verse 2:
F# minorF#m B7B7
Veggie gas and brothers harass
E MajorE A augmentedA
Can stay up here in the cloud of eyes
F# minorF#m B7B7
Listening to my every move
E MajorE
Just trying to survive
F# minorF#m B7B7 E MajorE
Self-imposed adventure that selfishness drives
F# minorF#m
I can barely keep my head above the blue
B7B7
Trying to keep it off me and you
Chorus:
E MajorE C# minorC#m **
And I can see the sunshine's rays
A augmentedA B7B7
Gleaming through the clear water
E MajorE C# minorC#m **
Telling me what happened before
A augmentedA
This chapter's arrived
F# minorF#m B7B7 E MajorE
There will always be better days
F# minorF#m B7B7 E MajorE
There will always be better days
Verse 3:
F# minorF#m B7B7
Making music is what we do
E MajorE A augmentedA
Trying to weave the patterns for me and you
F# minorF#m B7B7
Trying to make the grasses green
E MajorE
And the grown man cry
Verse 4:
F# minorF#m B7B7
With the knife is where I bleed
E MajorE
Tangled up in a funnel's wind
F# minorF#m
Trying to come out walking
B7B7
Understand it's beyond me talking
F# minorF#m
Trying to come out walking
B7B7
Understand it's beyond me talking
Chorus:
E MajorE C# minorC#m **
And I can see the sunshine's rays
A augmentedA B7B7
Gleaming through the clear water
E MajorE C# minorC#m **
Telling me what happened before
A augmentedA
This chapter's arrived
F# minorF#m B7B7 E MajorE
There will always be better days
F# minorF#m B7B7 E MajorE
There will always be better days
Bridge:
F# minorF#m
Being alone isn't lonely
B7B7
Sought after like a holiday
F# minorF#m
Being alone is my vacation
B7B7
Postcard dreams, a full-sized bed
Verse 5:
F# minorF#m B7B7
Quit the band one too many times
E MajorE A augmentedA
Serious enough to get a rise
F# minorF#m B7B7
Get up in the next morning
E MajorE
For another drive, that's a promise
F# minorF#m B7B7
The best advice we ever received
E MajorE
Is for you and me to stay here together
F# minorF#m B7B7
It's easier to begin and hard to end
F# minorF#m B7B7
I'm just glad to go through it all with you as a friend
Chorus:
E MajorE C# minorC#m **
And I can see the sunshine's rays
A augmentedA B7B7
Gleaming through the clear water
E MajorE C# minorC#m **
Telling me what happened before
A augmentedA
This chapter's arrived
F# minorF#m B7B7 E MajorE
There will always be better days
F# minorF#m B7B7 E MajorE
There will always be better days
F# minorF#m B7B7 E MajorE
There will always be better days