The Man With The Axe chords by Lorde

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd
• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Original key: E MajorE

🎸 Verse 1:
G+G           D MajorD
If I had to break it down
         F# minorF#m  G+G
I'd say it's the way you love to dance
 Em7-5     D MajorD           B minorBm
Movin' the furniture when my back is turned
   A7A7            N.C.
The flick of the lights and the world falls away

🎸 Chorus:
      G+G          D MajorD
And your office job and your silver hair
     F# minorF#m             G+G          Em7-5
But our shapes in the dark are the reason I've stayed for all these years

🎸 Verse 2:
  G+G        D MajorD          F# minorF#m
I thought I was a genius, but now I'm twenty-two
   G+G       Em7-5            D MajorD
And it's startin' to feel like all I know how to do is
 B minorBm        A augmentedA
Put on a suit and take it away

🎸 Chorus:
     G+G              D MajorD
With my fistful of tunes that it's painful to play
 F# minorF#m           G+G
Fingernail worlds like favorite seashells
  Em7-5     D MajorD          B minorBm  A7A7
They fill up my nights and then they float away

🎸 Verse 3:
G+G                    D MajorD
I've got hundreds of gowns, I've got paintings in frames
    F# minorF#m                 G+G
And a throat that fills with panic every festival day
 Em7-5       D MajorD            B minorBm A7A7
Dutifully fallin' apart for the Princess of Norway

🎸 Chorus:
   G+G       D MajorD          F# minorF#m   G+G
But you, with your doll's lashes, your infinite t-shirts
 Em7-5            D MajorD           B minorBm
I should've known when your favorite record was the same as my father's
    A7A7
You'd take me down

🎸 Verse 4:
  G+G            D MajorD
I guess I'll always be this way
  F# minorF#m              G+G
Swallowed up by the words, and halfway to space
 Em7-5      D MajorD           B minorBm
But there, by the fire, you offered your hand
      A7A7
And as I took it, I loved you, the boy with the plan

🎸 Chorus:
 E MajorE       A augmentedA     E MajorE  A augmentedA
You felled me clean as a pine
   E MajorE      A augmentedA     C7C7 D7D7     E MajorE
The man with the axe and the lo- ok in his eyes

Break:
E MajorE / A augmentedA
E MajorE / A augmentedA

🎸 Outro:
E MajorE              A augmentedA
We've been through so many hard times
        E MajorE         A augmentedA
I'm writin' a love song for you, baby

E MajorE / A augmentedA / E MajorE