Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)
Verse 1:
A minorAm
You in the living room
E minorEm
You on a Tuesday afternoon
G+G
A augmentedA breeze seen when the curtains move
Hook:
A minorAm
You by the window with both feet up on the couch
G+G E minorEm
Where you sit and you read and I watch you
Verse 2:
FF
From the office the sunlight frames your silhouette
A minorAm G+G
I think of lighting fireworks, I think of pirouettes
FF
I idly write down observations on the scene
A minorAm G+G
Like do the blueprints name the rooms alone?
Do we name them on our own?
A minorAm
We hardly live in there
Hook:
G+G
You with a book propped on your knees
E minorEm
A augmentedA breeze seen in your coffee steam
Verse 3:
A minorAm G+G
I’m in the office thinking back to rules of poetry
E minorEm
It’s fourteen lines, the last two rhyme, what does pentameter mean?
Hook:
A minorAm
You in the living room
G+G
Legs bent at forty-five degrees
Verse 4:
E minorEm
I write AB AB, try to find your rhyme scheme
A minorAm G+G
I look for objects on the desk with which to sculpt your image best
E minorEm
What would I name this? Could I paint it “Woman (reading) ” “Girl (at rest) ”
Verse 5:
Fmaj7Fmaj7 A minorAm G+G Fmaj7Fmaj7
I remember it so well watching you shifting your weight, turning the page, I can see it all there
A minorAm G+G
Inside a living room where only I live and never go in
Fmaj7Fmaj7 FF
A augmentedA role in name alone
Verse 5:
A minorAm Fmaj7Fmaj7 FF
And I pause where I am for a second when I hear your name
A minorAm Fmaj7Fmaj7
Sometimes I think I see your face in improbable places
FF A minorAm
Do those moments replay for you?
Fmaj7Fmaj7
When I’m suddenly there and then won’t go away
A minorAm
When you’re sitting in the living room reading for the afternoon
Do you put your book down look and try to find me there?
Verse 6:
E minorEm A minorAm
Sometimes I think of all the people who lived here before us
A augmentedA E MajorE G+G
How the spaces in the memories you make change the room from just blueprints
A minorAm FF
To the place where you live
Bridge:
E MajorE
When you leave here
A minorAm
When you go from a home
G+G A minorAm
You take all that you own but the memories echo
Verse 7:
A augmentedA G+G
On hardwood floor in the living room
A minorAm
Tore the carpet, the scratches below that we found
And the wine stain on the couch
G+G
We got drunk and decided we’d still try to move it around
Fmaj7Fmaj7 FF A minorAm G+G C majorC
And I can’t tell what the difference is between the ones that we made and the ones that we didn’t make
E MajorE
They all conjure images still
G+G Fmaj7Fmaj7 FF
Where you sit and you read in the sunlight aware that I watch
Outro:
And I live alone now
A augmentedA A minorAm
Save for the echoes
G minorGm C majorC
I live alone now
E minorEm A minorAm A augmentedA A minorAm
Save for the echoes