You Were Cool chords by The Mountain Goats

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

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

D A Em G x2

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

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

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

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

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


Outro: D A Em G x2

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