Chords with lyrics
Performance: Promo Tour "Paint my bedroom black"
Key: C majorC
Chords can be used for the original version or for the live version (link in description).
In the live version she plays the chords like this:
C/G: 3 Em: 0 F: x Am: 5 G: 0 Dadd1: x
3 2 3 7 5 5
2 2 3 7 5 4
x x 2 x 4 0
x x x x x 3
x x x x x x
Verse:
C/GC/G E minorEm
Are you free tonight to watch The O.C.?
FF
This is protocol
FF
I need you here beside me
C/GC/G E minorEm
I've been paralysed for more than a week
FF
But don't let it scare you
FF
This is fairly routine
Pre-Chorus:
A minorAm G+G
Soon, I'll break out this cocoon
FF C/GC/G
And take the car out for a drive
A minorAm G+G
We'll play cassettes
FF C/GC/G
Share cigarettes out in the half-light
A minorAm G+G FF C/GC/G
Maybe, I'll blossom into something you might like
A minorAm
Lie-de-die
G+G
Lie-de-die
C/GC/G
Lie-de-die
Chorus:
N.C. C/GC/G E minorEm
I'm just going through something
FF
Uh-huh
C/GC/G E minorEm
I'm just going through something
FF
Uh-huh
Verse 2:
C/GC/G E minorEm
Are you free tonight to help pass the evening?
FF
We'll drink our body weight
FF
'Til we forget our feelings
C/GC/G E minorEm
I'll be swimming in the pools of your fragrance
FF FF
When you're in proximity, I'm totally weightless
Verse 3:
C/GC/G E minorEm
Now I've become a taxidermy version of myself
FF
The laundry's piling up
FF
The plants are dying on the shelf (Ooh-ooh-oh)
C/GC/G E minorEm
You said you'd give me both your kidneys
If I cried for help
FF FF
Like, Jesus Christ, calm down!
Pre-Chorus:
A minorAm G+G
Soon, I'll break out this cocoon
FF C/GC/G
And take the car out for the night
A minorAm G+G
We'll play cassettes
FF C/GC/G
Share cigarettes out in the half-light
A minorAm G+G FF C/GC/G
Maybe, I'll blossom into something twice as bright
A minorAm
Lie-de-die
G+G
Lie-de-die
C/GC/G
Lie-de-die
Chorus:
N.C. C/GC/G E minorEm
I'm just going through something
FF
Uh-huh
C/GC/G E minorEm
I'm just going through something
FF
Uh-huh
Bridge:
Dadd11 FF
So don't you keep me on your mind
C/GC/G E MajorE
Another minute more
Dadd11 FF
Don't you keep me on your mind
C/GC/G E minorEm
Are you free tonight to watch The O.C.?
FF
This is protocol
FF
I need you here beside me
Chorus:
C/GC/G E minorEm
I'm just going through something
FF
Uh-huh
C/GC/G E minorEm
I'm just going through something
FF
Uh-huh
Dadd11
I'm just going through something
FF
Going through something
C/GC/G
Uh-huh