You Missed My Heart Acoustic chords by Mark Kozelek

Chords with lyrics

Verse:

D MajorD       D/C#
Broke into her house.

         D/B
 Saw her sittin’ there,

         G+G
Drinking coke and whiskey

           D MajorD
 in her bra and underwear.

        D/C#
Saw him in the kitchen,

        D/B
 hangin’ up the phone.

          G+G
I asked him nicely please

            D MajorD
 to pack his things and go.

             D/C#
He gave her a reassuring look,

            D/B
 that said he wouldn’t leave.

           G+G
But I asked him one more time

               D MajorD
 and this time pulled out my shiv.

          D/C#
I struck him in the back

           D/B
 and I pulled it out slow,

          G+G
Watched him fall down,

            G+G
And as the morning sun rose,

        Asus4Asus4
He looked at me and said:

Chorus:

        D MajorD
“You missed my heart,

        B minorBm
 you missed my heart.

      G+G
You got me good.

      A augmentedA
 I knew you would.

         D MajorD
But you missed my heart,

        B minorBm
 you missed my heart.”

Verse:

       G+G
Were his last words,

      Asus4Asus4
 before he died.

D MajorD       D/C#
Looking out the window,

        D/B
 up at the blue sky,

         G+G
Listening to her scream,

         D MajorD
 listening to her cry.

       D/C#
A augmentedA feeling of relief

       D/B
 came over my soul.

            G+G
I couldn’t take it any longer

          D MajorD
 and I lost control.

          D/C#
I chased her up the stairs

            D/B
And I pinned her to the ground,

            G+G
And underneath her whimpering,

            D MajorD
I could hear the sirens sound.

        D/C#
I rattled off a list,

         B minorBm
 of everything I missed

               G+G
Like going to the movies with her

              D MajorD
And the way she kissed me.

       D/C#
Driving into downtown Wheeling

         D/B
 and showing her off.

       G+G
Backyard barbecues

           D MajorD
 and reunions in the park.

          D/C#
I said I loved her skin

         D/B
 and she started laughing

                 G+G
And while I clenched down on her wrist

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

              A augmentedA
“But there’s one thing you missed.

Chorus:

        D MajorD
“You missed my heart,

        B minorBm
 you missed my heart.

      G+G
That's quite a list

      A augmentedA
 But what you really missed

         D MajorD
But you missed my heart,

        B minorBm
 you missed my heart.”

Verse:

        G+G
That’s quite a list,

           A augmentedA
 but what you really missed.”

D MajorD          D/C#
Running through the parking lots

          D/B
Running through the fields

        G+G
Policemen on my back

              D MajorD
Something hit my skull and cracked

            D/C#
They dragged me off to jail,

           D/B
 set a million dollar bail

            G+G
Where I tried to tie a noose,

             D MajorD
 but I failed and I broke loose

                D/C#
Went racing through the prison yard,

           D/B
Shot down by a tower guard

         G+G
He got me in the shins

           D MajorD
And he got me in the arms

          D/C#
Strapped me in the gurney

          D/B
Took me off to the infirmary

               G+G
Where the priest read my last rites…

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

Chorus:

       D MajorD
“He missed my heart,

       D/C#
 he missed my heart

     G+G          A augmentedA
Just before, my world went dark,

         D MajorD
Said he missed my heart,

        D/C#
 he missed my heart”

       G+G         A augmentedA
And just before,everything went dark,

Outro:

D MajorD        D/C#
The most poetic dream

            D/B
 came flowing like the sea

        G+G
Lay in there my life,

           D MajorD
 but draining out of me

      D/C#
A augmentedA childhood scene then,

     D/B
 sky moon beams,

        G+G
Fishing with my friends

           D MajorD
 sitting in the wild lands

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

G+G                   D MajorD
Waiting for the bullhead catfishes to bite

          D/C#             D/B      G+G
Downriver from the Moundsville prison graveyards…

D MajorD        D/C#              D/B      G+G
Downriver from the Moundsville prison graveyards…

D MajorD        D/C#              D/B      G+G
Downriver from the Moundsville prison graveyards...