Chords with lyrics
Iron and Wine - About a Bruise
Chords are relative to Capo 6.
The original song is in F#F#
Intro:
C majorC C majorC
C majorC G+G X2 (Drums Enter)
C majorC G+G X4
Verse 1:
C majorC G+G
A augmentedA weed believes the garden
C majorC FF
Sunday clothes don't fool me
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
The sky is full of our prayer, prayer
C majorC G+G
When you were making moonlight
C majorC FF
The mall cops in Mobile
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
The night fell from their eyes, from their eyes
C majorC G+G
This is borrowed stone
C majorC FF
I'd help you let your hair down
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
Point to birds, then you'd say, "Bang, bang"
C majorC G+G C majorC FF
The sun left every evening, good grass was dying
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
You drew your dawn on the world, on the world
Chorus:
FF C majorC
Tenderness to you was only talk about a bruise
C majorC A minorAm G+G FF
Or walking into water after dark
C majorC G+G
Your papa saw me coming
C majorC FF
"Blood knows when it's worth it,"
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
All you said, you said like a song, a song
C majorC G+G
Jesus left a best friend
C majorC FF
Mine says forget her
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
His field is waiting for wind, for the wind
Break:
E minorEm FF
DmDm DmDm
G+G FF
Verse 2:
C majorC G+G
Mobile had your moonlight
C majorC FF
But that line cook had candy
C majorC G+G
You let him blow your candle a bit
C majorC G+G
(Hoo hoo hoo, haha)
C majorC G+G
Ring a bell that's broken
C majorC FF
That sound is loud inside us
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
Flowing farther away, far away
Chorus 2:
FF C majorC
Tenderness to you was only talk about a bruise
C majorC A minorAm G+G FF
Or walking into water after dark
C majorC G+G
Love can last a lifetime
C majorC FF
This is Alabama
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
Any wheel is forgiving the road, the road
C majorC G+G C majorC FF C majorC
Now you're making music for beautiful people by the sea
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
Who don't need a song, need a song
C majorC G+G C majorC FF C majorC
Tenderness to you was only talk about a bruise
G+G C majorC
This is Alabama