The Architect chords by Kacey Musgraves

♫ Verse 1:
     B
Even something as small as an apple
     C                     B
It's simple and somehow complex
B                     C
Sweet and divine, the perfect design
       B           B    B
Can I speak to the architect?

♫ Verse 2:
              B
And there's a canyon that cuts through the desert
       C                      B
Did it get there because of a flood?
B                  C
Was it devised? Or were you surprised
     B           B        B
When you saw how grand it was?

♫ Chorus:
       Cm                         C
Was it thought out at all or just paint on a wall?
         B                 B
Is there anything that you regret?
  B                           C
I don't understand, are there blueprints or plans?
       Cm          B    B
Can I speak to the architect?

♫ Verse 3:
    B
Som times I look in the mirror
    C                     B
And wish I could make a r quest
        B                  C
Could I pray it away?  shapeable clay?
      B       B          B
Or is this as good as it gets?

♫ Verse 4:
    B
One day, you're on top of the mountain
   C                           B
So high that you'll never come down
         B                         C
Then the wind at your back carries ember and ash
        B                B            B
That it burns your whole house to the ground

♫ Chorus:
       Cm                         C
Was it thought out at all or just paint on a wall?
         B                 B
Is there anything that you regret?
  B                           C
I don't understand, are there blueprints or plans?
       Cm          B    B
Can I speak to the architect?

♫ Instrumental:
Cm     B     Gm    C

Cm     B     Gm    C

B


♫ Verse 5:
  B
I thought that I was too broken
    C                 B
And maybe too hard to love
      B          B/G           C
I was in a weird place, then I saw the right face
         B            B             B
And the stars and the planets lined up

♫ Chorus:
        Cm                      C
Does it happen by chance? Is it all happenstance?
   B                    B
Do have any say in this mess?
B                 C
Is it too late to make some more space?
       Cm          B    B
Can I speak to the architect?
     B                        C
This life that we make, is it random or fate?
       Cm          B    B
Can I speak to the architect?
Cm          B    B
Is there an architect?