Tierney Terrace chords by Loyle Carner

• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Key: Em

Intro:

Em G C B

Verse 1:
                            Em
Uh, I keep my ear to the door holding my brother close
                         G
He knows I love him most
                                                     C
My heart beating I can feel it from his fucking pulse
                                                     B
Seeing my mother rose, froze, love of something slows
                                                Em
Woes, decompose, muddy clothes and a runny nose

Flows, we're shivering, she mistakes it for giggling
G
Mother quivering hopping out the seat that she's sitting in
C
Living in the last few weeks keeping it diligent
     B7
It's calm under my arm I be popping the Ritalin
   Em
To keep it smooth
                                 G
Self-medicating to keep me loose
                                                   C
I needed proof, needed see it to believe it's true
I needed you but you're the one that I was grieving to
    B7
And now you're leaving
                                                  Em
Deep in the evening that we were sleeping through
                                                   G
So what are we to do but move with the setting sun
                                          C
Uh, you know I love you like a second mum
Love you for better from, now 'til whenever
         B7                                              Em
Want the family together I promise you 'imma get it done

Chorus:
                                           G
Trust, 'cos all I wanted was a fucking man
                                                C
To tell the fucking truth, hold my fucking hand

Uh, to guide me through the darkness when the others ran
B                                                       Em
Instead he was sliding and slipping I didn't understand
                                             G
I didn't understand-stand, didn't understand
                                         C
Uh, now every time that motherfucker ran
                                             B
I didn't understand-stand, didn't understand

Verse 2:
               Em
Uh, 'cos every afternoon after school
              G
Or at 5:30 if it was after basketball
                            C
They'd be waiting up at the gate with an article

They picked up on the way down
    B
And read it to me the second we were leaving the playground
     Em
That grey sound never stop until we're forced to stop
G                                                       C
Corner shop, buying fruit and veg? Nah, of course we're not
                                                    B
Just a couple steady snacks for the journey heading back
                                                  Em
Full of the sugar so our teeth Yes of course they rot
Sit for hours, sun, thunderstorm or showers
        G                                                   C
In that same living room watching the bloom turn to flowers
The night was ours, Superpowers and all
        B
We were zapping out the window and watching the cowards fall
       Em
Had it all
Powerful, making me tower tall
G                                 C
Bountiful from something so small
So I'd rather take the fall and brawl
         B
Before I drowned in what I found so cruel

Em F G C Am


Bridge:
                    Em7
Sitting and sipping whiskey like my grandad did
                   F                    G
Trying to like the life that my grandad lived
                        C
'Cos when the black man slipped into the darkness
And the black man dipped
   Am
It didn't matter, had that love I left my grandad with
Em
Sip brandy like my grandma do
                   G
Trying to like the life that my nan told true
                   C
'Cos if I run from you she'd hold my hands
Until my hands turn blue
     B                                                         Em
So I pursue the new, thinking 'bout the man they grew, because

Chorus:
                                           G
Trust, 'cos all I wanted was a fucking man
                                                C
To tell the fucking truth, hold my fucking hand

Uh, to guide me through the darkness when the others ran
B                                                       Em
Instead he was sliding and slipping I didn't understand
                                             G
I didn't understand-stand, didn't understand
                                         C
Uh, now every time that motherfucker ran
                                             B
I didn't understand-stand, didn't understand
                                    Em
Uh, now believe me I need a fucking man

                                           G
Trust, 'cos all I wanted was a fucking man
                                                C
To tell the fucking truth, hold my fucking hand

Uh, to guide me through the darkness when the others ran
B                                                       Em
Instead he was sliding and slipping I didn't understand
                                             G
I didn't understand-stand, didn't understand
                                         C
Uh, now every time that motherfucker ran
                                             B
I didn't understand-stand, didn't understand
Now believe me I need a fucking man