Now Only chords by Mount Eerie

Chords with lyrics

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

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
FF E minorEm C majorC


Verse 1:
       FF             C majorC
I remember looking around a hospital waiting room
                      FF       C majorC
Full of people all absorbed in their own personal catastrophes
                        FF       C majorC
All reading books like Being Mortal, all with a look in their eyes
                  G+G
And I remember still feeling like, "No, no one can understand"

"No, my devastation is unique"

Chorus:
        C majorC
But people get cancer and die
          G+G
People get hit by trucks and die
       FF
People just living their lives

Get erased for no reason
     E minorEm                G+G
With the rest of us watching from the side

        C majorC
And some people have to survive
            G+G
And find a way to feel lucky to still be alive
  FF
To sleep through the night


Verse 2:
E minorEm   G+G       FF
I wrote down all the details of how my house fell apart
FF
How the person I loved got killed by a bad disease

Out of nowhere for no reason and me living in the blast zone
     A minorAm
With our daughter and etcetera

I made these songs
    C majorC
And the next thing I knew I was standing in the dirt

Under the desert sky at night outside Phoenix
   A minorAm
At a music festival that had paid to fly me in

To play these death songs to a bunch of young people on drugs
C majorC
Standing in the dust next to an idling bus

With Skrillex inside and the sound of subwoofers in the distance
A minorAm
I had stayed up til three
A minorAm
Talking to Weyes Blood and Father John Misty

About songwriting in the backstage bungalows
    C majorC
Eating fruit and jumping on the bed like lost children

Exploding across the earth in a self-indulgent all-consuming
A minorAm
Wreck of ideas that blot out the stars

To be still alive felt so absurd

Chorus:
      C majorC
People get cancer and die
         G+G
People get hit by trucks and die
      FF
People just living their lives get erased for no reason
     E minorEm             G+G
With the rest of us averting our eyes


Interlude:
C majorC G+G FF


Bridge:
E minorEm                            C majorC
When I was leaning on Skrillex's tour bus waiting for the hotel shuttle in the middle of the night
 A minorAm
I barely knew who I was
     E minorEm
I looked up and saw Orion wielding a club and a shield

And there you were again:
G+G
Majestic dead wife
   A minorAm
As my grief becomes calcified, frozen in stories

And in these songs I keep singing, numbing it down
  G+G
The unsingable real memories of you

And the feral eruptions of sobbing

   FF   E minorEm    C majorC
These waves hit less frequently
   FF    E minorEm      C majorC
They thin and then they are gone
    FF      E minorEm     C majorC
You are gone and then your echo is gone
  FF    E minorEm    C majorC
And then the crying is gone
             C majorC
And what is left but this merchandise?


Interlude:
FF E minorEm C majorC


Outro:
FF        E minorEm       FF E minorEm C majorC
This is what my life feels like now
      FF          E minorEm
Like I got abruptly dropped off by the side of the road
    C majorC
In the middle of a long horrible ride
   FF          E minorEm        C majorC          FF
In a hot van that was too full of confident chattering dudes
  G+G         C majorC    FF E minorEm C majorC
And the sound of tires receding
    G+G           FF E minorEm
Taking in the night air I say
     C majorC
"Now only"