Pittsburgh chords by Mason Jennings

Chords with lyrics

Pittsburgh
from Blood of Man
Tabbed by Drew Langworthy


Tuned half a step down

E minorEm
My mom'd give me twenty and say "Stay out till dawn"
    G+G
When her boyfriend was over and they wanted me gone
E minorEm
I would walk through the woods to the old graveyard
  E minorEm
And roll my own tops and think two kinda thoughts

    E minorEm
Are we high enough to clear these trees?
      E minorEm
I don't know

E minorEm
That was the summer Dave's girlfriend OD'ed
    G+G
She died in the bathroom at a party down the street
E minorEm
I went to see him the next night, he had a new tattoo
    G+G
He was watching home movies of her, his face was wet, he looked so confused
E minorEm
They had a funeral for her, the preacher said she was with the Lord
     E minorEm
There were lots of pictures of her taped to a poster board

    E minorEm
Are we high enough to clear these trees?
      E minorEm
I don't know
     E minorEm
Are we high enough to clear this place?
     D MajorD
I don't know

G+G
Grocery stores in the middle of the night shine their own kinda light
G+G
High school halls and shopping malls never fit me right
    D MajorD
But my heart would swing free like a lasso from my hand
    D MajorD
When I'd hear that sound and put the pedal down
E minorEm
I wound up that fall in a hospital
   E minorEm
On the suicide wing with a lot of people thinkin' one thing
E minorEm
They had a sign on the wall that said "No touching at all"
     E minorEm
There were screams in the dark, nurses running down the hall

E minorEm
On the night that I got there, they showered me and searched me hard
     E minorEm
Then they took me to my little room overlooking a graveyard
E minorEm
When I opened my eyes I was strapped to the bed
     E minorEm
There was a needle in my arm, part of me was gone
E minorEm
Then they took us outside in our slippers and gowns
    E minorEm
To play basketball on the blacktop, the ball just bounced till it stopped

    E minorEm
Are we high enough to clear these trees?
      E minorEm
I don't know
     E minorEm
Are we high enough to clear this place?
     D MajorD
I don't know

G+G
Grocery stores in the middle of the night shine their own kinda light
G+G
High school halls and shopping malls never fit me right
    D MajorD
But my heart would swing free like a lasso from my hand
    D MajorD
When I'd hear that sound and put the pedal down

E minorEm
When the leaves were wet behind the old duplex
     E minorEm
We used to run at night naked through the trees
E minorEm
And you would lean back against me and I would try to stay soft
    E minorEm
We'd listen to the engines as the planes took off