Fire Escape chords by Dan Mangan

🎸 Intro:

D



🎸 Verse :
D
  Meet me out by the fire escape

It's been forty nights and forty days
            G
And I've become uncertain in a cosmic way

I chewed my fingers to the bone today

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
D
Oh, won't you come around and meet me by the fire escape
                        G
Untie this tied tongue tie

What's it that I wanna say, what's it that I really wanna say?
What are the words I've been choking on, hoping someone will articulate?

🎸 Chorus:
D
  Oh no, that's some murky water
                                A
Alright, we're in the trenches now

I don't know when the party's over
                                  G
All I know's I'm getting out somehow
                    D
Oh, what a fever dream



🎸 Verse :
 D
Meet me out by the fire escape

Join the procession down the alleyway, oh
 G
Our freedom's a joke and we've got debts to pay

How many waves until the levee breaks?

🎸 Pre-Chorus:
D
Oh, won't you come around and meet me by the fire escape
                        G
Untie this tied tongue tie
What's it that I wanna say, what's it that I really wanna say?

What are the truths we've been choking on, hoping someone will articulate?

🎸 Chorus:
D
  Oh no, that's some murky water
                                A
Alright, we're in the trenches now

And I don't know how the story ends
                                                  G
But the pages just turn over and then turn over again

🎸 Bridge:

And redemption's always outta sight and just around the bend
                                                        D
And the outcome doesn't match with what it is that I intend

Like a stack of books grows and gathers dust beside the bed
                                                           A
Or the disconnect between what people do and what they've said

And I wanna read the news maybe without losing my head
                   D
Oh, what a fever dream

🎸 Interlude:
D   A   G


🎸 Outro:
D
  Meet me out by the fire escape

It's been forty nights and forty days
          G
And I've become uncertain in a cosmic way
                                      D
I chewed my fingers to the bone today