Chords with lyrics
Performance: Lizzy McAlpine: Tiny Desk Concert
Key: D MajorD
Tuning: DADF#GD
Intro:
Dadd4 E minor 7Em7 Dmaj7sus4/F# E minor 7Em7
Verse 1:
Dadd4 E minor 7Em7
We run back home and I'm thirteen
Dmaj7sus4/F# E minor 7Em7 Em9Em9
Just waiting for the payoff
Dadd4 E minor 7Em7
This house smells like old routines
Dmaj7sus4/F# E minor 7Em7 Em9Em9
And daddy just got laid off
Dadd4 E minor 7Em7 Dmaj7sus4/F# E minor 7Em7 Em9Em9
Verse 2:
Dadd4 E minor 7Em7
We traced stencils on the wall
Dmaj7sus4/F# E minor 7Em7 Em9Em9
It's fun until it isn't
Dadd4 E minor 7Em7
You get bored and I get taller
Dmaj7sus4/F# E minor 7Em7 Em9Em9
Till this room won't fit us
Chorus:
Dadd4 E minor 7Em7
Follow the grass to the street
Dmaj7sus4/F# G+G Dmaj7sus4/F# E minor 7Em7 Dadd4
The cardboard box we turned in - to a sled
E minor 7Em7 Dmaj7sus4/F#
Dance in the glow of the TV screen
G+G G minorGm Dadd4
It will be us until the end
E minor 7Em7 Dmaj7sus4/F# E minor 7Em7 Em9Em9
Verse 3:
Dadd4 E minor 7Em7
I force you to film me sing
Dmaj7sus4/F# E minor 7Em7 Em9Em9
Some random song I made up
Dadd4 E minor 7Em7
Mom is gone for work again
Dmaj7sus4/F# E minor 7Em7
The babysitter feeds us
Bridge:
B minorBm Aadd4
We're too old for this
G+G Dadd4
We have iPhones now
E minor 7Em7 Dmaj7sus4/F# G+G
And I'm pretty sure Barbara stays ho - me alone
Aadd4
When her mom goes out
B minorBm Aadd4 G+G Dadd4 E minor 7Em7 Em9Em9
We're too old to have fun the way we used to at thirteen
E minor 7Em7 Dmaj7sus4/F# G+G Gsus2Gsus2
But we've always been who we'll always be
Chorus:
Dadd4 E minor 7Em7
Follow the grass to the street
Dmaj7sus4/F# G+G Dmaj7sus4/F# E minor 7Em7 Dadd4
The cardboard box we turned in - to a sled
E minor 7Em7 Dmaj7sus4/F#
Dance in the glow of the TV screen
G+G G minorGm Dadd4 E minor 7Em7
It will be us until the end
Dmaj7sus4/F# E minor 7Em7 Em9Em9 D MajorD
The end
Chords Instructions:
Dadd4: 0-0-0-0-0-0
Em7: 2-2-0-1-0-0
Dmaj7sus4/F#: 4-4-0-3-0-0
Em9: 2-2-0-0-0-0
G: 5-5-0-5-0-0
Gm: 5-5-0-4-0-0
Bm: 9-9-0-8-x-0
Aadd4: 7-7-0-7-x-0
Gsus2: 5-5-0-3-0-0
D: 0-0-0-0-x-0