The Less I Knew chords by James Vincent McMorrow

🎸 Intro:

A



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

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

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

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

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

The less I knew the better

🎸 Outro:
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G               F#m
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh

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G               F#m   A
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