Simple Things chords by Jeremy Zucker

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Key: F#

Verse 1:
           B
I'm out of touch
          D#m                  C#
While the blacktop's burning up
            B
I'm passing signs
    D#m              C#
New Jersey on my mind
              B
And there's a hole I can't fill
     F#                C#
With small talk, is my name still
      G#m           B
In the phone book upstairs?
G#m B C#
I---I-I

Chorus:
           G#m           B
Well, it's long hair and town fairs
     F#             C#
It's crazy that I'm not there
     G#m           B
It's wide eyes and tan lines
     F#              C#
It's never saying goodbye
         G#m              B
It's the simple things we had
         F#             C#
Now I'll never get them back
         G#m               B
Wish I'd known just what I had
G#m B C#
I---I-I

Verse 2:
           B
I talk too much
         D#m              C#
When the photo booth is up
        B
When we touch
      D#m
And I feel like throwing up
    C#      B
Sometimes I can't sit still
         F#              C#
Did your mom go sell the treadmill?
       G#m       B
Laying in the garage
B D#m C#
I-I---I

Chorus:
           G#m           B
Well, it's long hair and town fairs
     F#             C#
It's crazy that I'm not there
     G#m           B
It's wide eyes and tan lines
     F#              C#
It's never saying goodbye
         G#m              B
It's the simple things we had
         F#             C#
Now I'll never get them back
         G#m               B
Wish I'd known just what I had

Outro:
     F#   C#
Yeah, ah, ah, ah
        G#m              B
I still see it in my mind
       F#                  C#
Living out of nine to fives
        G#m             B
No, I'm never going back
      F#                  C#
A New Jersey state of mind
          G#m                B
There's a dream I always have
         F#                   C#
Where we scream until we laugh
       G#m               B
And we laugh until we cry
       F#                C#
Always staring at the sky
        G#m                   B
Used to think the end was near
        F#                     C#
How the hell did I end up here?
       G#m                  B
And to those I love the most
        F#                     C#
Haven't thought of you in years
         G#m                B
Saw your dad across the pond
          F#                      C#
Guess you finally proved him wrong
         G#m              B
Like you knew it all along

F# C# G#m B F# C# G#m