Chords with lyrics
by Emily Saliers
performed by The Indigo Girls
tab by Alan Fark ([email protected])
Standard tuning
capo at 4th fret
chord shapes:
E minorEm =022000
D/F#D/F# =20023x
csus =33001x
G+G =320003
Am7Am7 =x02010
Bm7Bm7 =x2023x
c =x32010
D MajorD =xx0232
G+G
Looking out across suburban yards to the construct of our
D/F#D/F#
days through the thinning of the trees.
csus
How come I only build a house of cards?
D/F#D/F#
That gets blown to pieces by the fall's first fickle breeze.
D MajorD
When I feel that stirring, the illicit kiss.
c
That's just the cool tongue of the devil with a sucker in
D MajorD
his midst.
[Chorus:]
D MajorD
One day I'll change you'll be the first one that I call.
D MajorD
I owe you an apology too many thanks and that's not all.
G+G
'Cause I've been running long before I learned to crawl.
csus
My calendar lies crumbled laid to waste.
D/F#D/F#
It's been scrawled on, thumbed through and changed.
csus
Will this be the measure of my days?
D/F#D/F#
Dinners and appointments and deadlines I can't make.
D MajorD
And when I start to see it making sense for me.
D MajorD
That's just hope springing eternally.
[Chorus]
G+G
Outside the summer's gone for good.
c
Dying impatiens stacked up wood.
G+G
My friends will get together to cook.
D MajorD
To talk about what's happened to take a second look.
csus
The master loves the servant who blind heeds him.
D/F#D/F#
The husband the obedient wife.
csus
The snake will always bite the hand that feeds him.
D/F#D/F#
Even if you love him even if you save his life.
