Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Key: G minorGm
Difficulty: Intermediate
Intro:
G minorGm Bb/FBb/F Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
Look at that cloud hang, up off the lookout hills
G minorGm Bb/FBb/F Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
That's where my head is, and I keep banging my shins
G minorGm Bb/FBb/F Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
There's another world, above this one
G minorGm Bb/FBb/F Ebmaj9Ebmaj9
That's where I'm trying to live, But I get dragged down
Gm9Gm9 Bbmaj7/F Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
Gm9Gm9 Bbmaj7/F Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
Gm9Gm9 Bb/FBb/F Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
There's another world, better than this one
G minorGm Bb/FBb/F Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
And that's where I've trying to live, but I get dragged down
Gm9Gm9 Bbmaj7/F Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
Gm9Gm9 Bbmaj7/F Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
Chorus:
G minorGm Bb/FBb/F Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 Bb/FBb/F
Stand still, stand still, can we just stand still
G minorGm Bb/FBb/F Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 Bb majorBb
Stand still, come on stand still, no no no no no stand still
Verse 1:
Bb majorBb G minorGm
This whole town is keys and getting along
Bb majorBb FF Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
All the buildings there are blocking sun and blocking sun
Bb majorBb G minorGm
I know it's you who's rushing to the light
Bb majorBb FF Eb MajorEb
With their open mouths and appetites, they ate the ground and now the sky
Eb MajorEb
Roll it out like pigeon wire
Chorus:
Eb MajorEb Bb/DBb/D Eb MajorEb Bb/DBb/D
Can't they just stand still, stand still, can't they just stand still
Eb MajorEb Bb/DBb/D Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 Bb majorBb
Stand still, stand still, can't we just stand still
Verse 2:
Bb majorBb G minorGm
So we packed our bags and headed west
Bb majorBb FF Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
She said I know a place where they can't get, where they can't get us
Bb majorBb G minorGm
She slid my tired fingers into hers
Bb majorBb G minorGm FF
And it was sunlight touching every curve, every scar,
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7
And this will be the moment that breaks my heart
Where the time creeps in and we grow apart
Chorus:
Ebmaj9Ebmaj9 Bb/DBb/D Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
Can't we just stand still, stand still, can't we just stand still
Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 Bb/DBb/D Ebmaj7Ebmaj7 Bb majorBb
Stand still, let our lungs fill, can we just stand still
Bridge:
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
That's what I'm talking about
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb FF Eb MajorEb
Her sneakered feet hardly hitting the ground
Bb majorBb
Thoughts like a rush hour downtown
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb N.C. Eb MajorEb
You're either sticking or pump-pumping 'em out
Bb majorBb
Drop me in the dark green
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb FF Eb MajorEb
Lock me in the mist of the southeast hill
Bb majorBb
Hide me in the old crow black night
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb FF Eb MajorEb
Hide me from the masochistic marking of time
Bb majorBb
I will stand like a mountain
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb FF Eb MajorEb
I will stand like a tuckamore stuck in the wind
Bb majorBb
Listen to the drum of the gulf go
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb FF
Listen to the drumming it's so slow
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
Listen to the drum of the gulf go
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb FF
Listen to the drumming it's so slow
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb
Listen to the drum of the gulf go
Eb MajorEb Bb majorBb FF
Listen to the drum of the gulf going
Eb MajorEb
stand still