Woman Reading chords by La Dispute

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Verse 1:
Am
You in the living room
         Em
You on a Tuesday afternoon
         G
A breeze seen when the curtains move


Hook:
Am
You by the window with both feet up on the couch
          G                                Em
Where you sit and you read and I watch you

Verse 2:
F
From the office the sunlight frames your silhouette
Am                  G
I think of lighting fireworks, I think of pirouettes
F
I idly write down observations on the scene
            Am                  G
Like do the blueprints name the rooms alone?

Do we name them on our own?
          Am
We hardly live in there


Hook:
                                G
You with a book propped on your knees
         Em
A breeze seen in your coffee steam


Verse 3:
Am                                                 G
I’m in the office thinking back to rules of poetry
Em
It’s fourteen lines, the last two rhyme, what does pentameter mean?


Hook:
Am
You in the living room
                                G
Legs bent at forty-five degrees


Verse 4:
Em
I write AB AB, try to find your rhyme scheme
Am                                                                  G
I look for objects on the desk with which to sculpt your image best
Em
What would I name this? Could I paint it “Woman (reading)?” “Girl (at rest)?”


Verse 5:
Fmaj7                              Am                                G                  Fmaj7
I remember it so well watching you shifting your weight, turning the page, I can see it all there
                           Am                       G
Inside a living room where only I live and never go in
               Fmaj7        F
A role in name alone


Verse 5:
Am                                         Fmaj7            F
And I pause where I am for a second when I hear your name
Am                                              Fmaj7
Sometimes I think I see your face in improbable places
         F                  Am
Do those moments replay for you?
                                          Fmaj7
When I’m suddenly there and then won’t go away
                                                       Am
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:
            Em                                                Am
Sometimes I think of all the people who lived here before us
                      A            E                              G
How the spaces in the memories you make change the room from just blueprints
                       Am     F
To the place where you live


Bridge:
E
When you leave here
Am
When you go from a home
G                                          Am
You take all that you own but the memories echo


Verse 7:
            A                       G
On hardwood floor in the living room
                                             Am
Tore the carpet, the scratches below that we found

And the wine stain on the couch
       G
We got drunk and decided we’d still try to move it around
Fmaj7        F                          Am                       G                         C
And I can’t tell what the difference is between the ones that we made and the ones that we didn’t make
                        E
They all conjure images still
          G                                                   Fmaj7 F
Where you sit and you read in the sunlight aware that I watch


Outro:

And I live alone now
             A      Am
Save for the echoes
                 Gm C
I live alone now
Em           Am      A Am
Save for the echoes