Curse Of The I-5 Corridor chords by Neko Case

Chords with lyrics

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

Key: C majorC

C majorC
I waited too long to write this down
  C majorC     C/BC/B     A minorAm
The startling sensation is fading
The sweet, sweet burn
                  D/F#D/F#
Of the first drink of the night, underage
FF                      C majorC
Knowing that you're gonna get away with it

C majorC
You were a good man before you knew it
       FF
And I'm not vain enough to think that
       A minorAm
I'd have been good for you if I'd stayed
    FF
In the current of your life
                    C majorC
I was an eyelash in the shipping lanes

C majorC
And now I'm so scared about mystery
  A minorAm   Em/GEm/G
I fear I smell extinction
    D/F#D/F#
In the folds of this novocaine age coming on
C majorC
I miss the smell of mystery
 A minorAm  G+G       FF
Reverb leaking outta tavern doors
And not knowing how the sounds were made

C majorC
So I left home and faked my ID
C/Bb
I fucked every man that I wanted to be
     A minorAm
I was so stupid then
      D/F#D/F#       FF
Why should mystery give its life for me?

C majorC
Baby, I'm afraid
But it's not your fault
Maybe I should go
E minorEm     FF
Home alone tonight
C majorC
Baby, I'm afraid
But it's not your fault
Maybe I should go
E minorEm     FF
Home alone tonight

Musical interlude:
A minorAm   E MajorE  x4

C majorC
Now I see you in our old home

Where I'm always scared to go
   A minorAm       Em/GEm/G
Those thirty garbage miles
Making wet cigarette butts and used tires
FF
To be poor as the anchor that makes us so sure
C7C7
Your sandy voice across my brow
You haven't aged a day
              FF
Is it because you took a shortcut
That makes people say you're crazy
Is it true?
You're a time traveler, you
Is it true?
I've seen crazy too

       C majorC  G/BG/B  A minorAm
Can it be a comfort between us?
      FF
Because I never want to know for sure

C majorC
Baby, I'm afraid
But it's not your fault
Maybe I should go
E minorEm     FF
Home alone tonight
C majorC
Baby, I'm afraid
But it's not your fault
Maybe I should go
E minorEm     FF
Home alone tonight

A minorAm F/AF/A D/F#D/F# Fmaj7Fmaj7

C majorC
Now I write this in a pale town
   A minorAm        G+G
Where excitement is a yellow curb
Fmaj7Fmaj7
My dream awake leaps through my window
     A minorAm
From the highway

A minorAm
You turn my head and set the brake too late
Fmaj7Fmaj7
Release the tears of metric tons
D/F#D/F#
The crash, it comes (comes, comes)
FF
And pours down my public face
A minorAm
Behind a reservoir of collarbones
Fmaj7Fmaj7         D7/F#D7/F#         FF
And forms two private lakes (lakes, lakes, lakes, lakes)

FF   E MajorE
Baby, I'm afraid

A minorAm
Your orbit is so easy
E MajorE
You haven't gained a day
A minorAm
We're two self-fulfilling prophecies
Fmaj7Fmaj7
Who don't even have each other
D7/F#D7/F#           FF
Not that we would ever get away with it

|A minorAm E MajorE | A minorAm Fmaj7/A D7/A F/AF/A