You Missed My Heart Acoustic chords by Mark Kozelek

Verse:

D             D/C#
Broke into her house.

                 D/B
 Saw her sittin’ there,

                  G
Drinking coke and whiskey

                     D
 in her bra and underwear.

               D/C#
Saw him in the kitchen,

                D/B
 hangin’ up the phone.

                   G
I asked him nicely please

                        D
 to pack his things and go.

                         D/C#
He gave her a reassuring look,

                       D/B
 that said he wouldn’t leave.

                     G
But I asked him one more time

                             D
 and this time pulled out my shiv.

                    D/C#
I struck him in the back

                     D/B
 and I pulled it out slow,

                   G
Watched him fall down,

                       G
And as the morning sun rose,

               Asus4
He looked at me and said:

Chorus:

               D
“You missed my heart,

               Bm
 you missed my heart.

           G
You got me good.

            A
 I knew you would.

                  D
But you missed my heart,

               Bm
 you missed my heart.”

Verse:

              G
Were his last words,

           Asus4
 before he died.

D             D/C#
Looking out the window,

                D/B
 up at the blue sky,

                 G
Listening to her scream,

                  D
 listening to her cry.

             D/C#
A feeling of relief

              D/B
 came over my soul.

                       G
I couldn’t take it any longer

                    D
 and I lost control.

                    D/C#
I chased her up the stairs

                        D/B
And I pinned her to the ground,

                        G
And underneath her whimpering,

                        D
I could hear the sirens sound.

                D/C#
I rattled off a list,

                 Bm
 of everything I missed

                              G
Like going to the movies with her

                           D
And the way she kissed me.

             D/C#
Driving into downtown Wheeling

                 D/B
 and showing her off.

              G
Backyard barbecues

                     D
 and reunions in the park.

                   D/C#
I said I loved her skin

                 D/B
 and she started laughing

                                 G
And while I clenched down on her wrist

                         G
She said “That's quite a list.."

                           A
“But there’s one thing you missed.

Chorus:

               D
“You missed my heart,

               Bm
 you missed my heart.

           G
That's quite a list

            A
 But what you really missed

                  D
But you missed my heart,

               Bm
 you missed my heart.”

Verse:

               G
That’s quite a list,

                     A
 but what you really missed.”

D                    D/C#
Running through the parking lots

                    D/B
Running through the fields

                G
Policemen on my back

                           D
Something hit my skull and cracked

                       D/C#
They dragged me off to jail,

                      D/B
 set a million dollar bail

                       G
Where I tried to tie a noose,

                          D
 but I failed and I broke loose

                               D/C#
Went racing through the prison yard,

                     D/B
Shot down by a tower guard

                 G
He got me in the shins

                     D
And he got me in the arms

                   D/C#
Strapped me in the gurney

                   D/B
Took me off to the infirmary

                              G
Where the priest read my last rites…

             G                    A
And just before,everything went dark, I said:

Chorus:

              D
“He missed my heart,

              D/C#
 he missed my heart

          G                   A
Just before,  my world went dark,

                  D
Said he missed my heart,

               D/C#
 he missed my heart”

             G                 A
And just before,everything went dark,

Outro:

D               D/C#
The most poetic dream

                        D/B
 came flowing like the sea

                G
Lay in there my life,

                     D
 but draining out of me

            D/C#
A childhood scene then,

          D/B
 sky moon beams,

                G
Fishing with my friends

                     D
 sitting in the wild lands

             D/C#            D/B
Watching the Ohio river flow at night

G                                     D
Waiting for the bullhead catfishes to bite

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Downriver from the Moundsville prison graveyards…

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Downriver from the Moundsville prison graveyards…

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Downriver from the Moundsville prison graveyards...