You Were Cool chords by The Mountain Goats

Chords with lyrics

D MajorD            A augmentedA
This is a song with the same four chords
   E minorEm                G+G
I use most of the time when I've got something on my mind
    D MajorD             A augmentedA
And I don't want to squander the moment
        E minorEm             G+G
Trying to come up with a more complicated way to say what I want to say

D MajorD          A augmentedA
People were mean to you
E minorEm               G+G
but I always thought you were cool
D MajorD              A augmentedA
clicking down the concrete hallway
      E minorEm
with your spiked heels
     G+G
back in high school.

D MajorD A augmentedA E minorEm G+G x2

D MajorD          A augmentedA
It's good to be young but let's not kid ourselves
   E minorEm               G+G
It's better to pass on through those years and come out the other side
D MajorD           A augmentedA
With our hearts still beating
    E minorEm          G+G
Having stared down demons; come back breathing

D MajorD          A augmentedA
People were mean to you
E minorEm               G+G
but I always thought you were cool
D MajorD              A augmentedA
clicking down the concrete hallway
      E minorEm
with your spiked heels
     G+G
back in high school.

G+G       A augmentedA
You deserved better than you got
      D MajorD                  G+G
Someone's got to say it sometime because it's true.
E minorEm                  A augmentedA
People should have told you you were awesome,
      D MajorD          G+G ***
Instead of taking advantage of you.

D MajorD      E minorEm    A augmentedA   (half beat only for both E minorEm and A augmentedA)
I hope you love your life
E minorEm      G+G
Like I love mine.
D MajorD                 A augmentedA          E minorEm
I hope the painful memories only flex their power over you
  G+G
A augmentedA little of the time.
D MajorD         A augmentedA
We held onto the hope of better days coming
E minorEm            G+G
And when we did we were right.
D MajorD           A augmentedA
I hope the people who did you wrong
E minorEm              G+G
Have trouble sleeping every night.

D MajorD          A augmentedA
People were mean to you
E minorEm               G+G
but I always thought you were cool
D MajorD              A augmentedA
clicking down the concrete hallway
      E minorEm
with your spiked heels
     G+G
back in high school.


Outro: D MajorD A augmentedA E minorEm G+G x2

*** In the video I transcribed this from, he seems to plays A augmentedA here. However he