The Less I Knew chords by James Vincent McMorrow

Chords with lyrics

🎸 Intro:

A augmentedA


🎸 Verse 1:
  A augmentedA    E MajorE     A augmentedA       E MajorE     D MajorD
A augmentedA beating heart gets thrown out of a car in the dark
  A augmentedA              E MajorE            D MajorD
I find it and I check it for scars and make sure it's clean
      A augmentedA   E MajorE
Then I go back inside
        A augmentedA       E MajorE      D MajorD
'Cause there's nothing for us here in the night
   A augmentedA            E MajorE      D MajorD
Just a helicopter buzzing nearby, ruining my sleep

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
  E MajorE       F# minorF#m               D MajorD
And I can feel a strong vibration when I look at you, you
   E MajorE   F# minorF#m                  D MajorD   E MajorE
Everybody knows my failures, well I know theirs too, too
🎸 Chorus:
         A augmentedA
Is this what it takes
     E MajorE            D MajorD
What it takes to be impossibly great?
               E MajorE    F# minorF#m    E MajorE
'Cause if it is then I think maybe the less, the less
   D MajorD
The less I knew the better
  E MajorE      A augmentedA      E MajorE               D MajorD
Please just be kind when I drag myself out on through the line
                E MajorE     F# minorF#m    E MajorE
'Cause in the end I think that maybe the less, the less
   D MajorD
The less I knew the better

🎸 Verse 2:
       A augmentedA    E MajorE
Yeah, that heart and me
  A augmentedA       E MajorE     D MajorD
At first we get on so splendidly
    A augmentedA                E MajorE
And we called you but you never seemed free
          D MajorD
So we just drove around for a while
       A augmentedA          E MajorE
But then the poetry of silence
              A augmentedA       E MajorE
It has this way of catching me and that heart
D MajorD            A augmentedA            E MajorE              D MajorD
And it rises to tell us that all of this is grief and everything we love is a shame

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
   E MajorE      F# minorF#m                D MajorD
So I open up my window and I throw that heart through, through
     E MajorE   F# minorF#m                  D MajorD    E MajorE
Now everybody knows my failures, well I know theirs too, too

🎸 Chorus:
          A augmentedA
So is this what it takes
     E MajorE            D MajorD
What it takes to be supposedly great?
               E MajorE     F# minorF#m    E MajorE
'Cause if it is then I think maybe the less, the less
   D MajorD
The less I knew the better
  E MajorE      A augmentedA      E MajorE             D MajorD
Please just be kind when I drag myself out onto the night
                E MajorE    F# minorF#m    E MajorE
'Cause in the end I think that maybe the less, the less
   D MajorD
The less I knew the better

The less I knew the better

🎸 Outro:
F# minorF#m
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
E/G#
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
G+G        F# minorF#m
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
E/G#
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
G+G        F# minorF#m  A augmentedA
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh