Backstairs chords by The New Pornographers

(INTRO VERSE: ELO voice and snyths): G#m
B                       Bbm
"Taking the backstairs, taking the back stairs,
G#                                             G#, G#m
taking the back stairs, taking the back stairs"

B                       Bbm
"Taking the backstairs, taking the back stairs,
G#
taking the back stairs, taking the back stairs"


(VERSE:)
G#                          G#m
Before I knew, to chose the music of celebrity
B       Bbm           G#              C#
I sang backups on the backstairs, the backstairs,
    G#
the backstairs (taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs)
G#                            G#m
I wore out grooves, sneaking around the servants quarters, oh
B            Bbm             G#
So I knew my way around the backstairs

(CHORUS:)
         B                    F#                    G#
There is another west, you'll find out, it's nearly thunderous
         B                   F#                  G#
There is another west, much wilder, you feel it under us
       B                F#               C#
And yet another west: a new one when you arriiiiive...


(BREAK 1): G#, G#m, B, Bbm, G#


(VERSE:)
G#                       G#m
I move so slow, I didn't know that I was backing out
B       Bbm                         G#
It was getting backed out on the backstairs
C#                  G#
The backstairs, the backstairs


(BREAK 2): B, G#, B, G#...


(BRIDGE:)
       B          (F#)       G#
And I came, and I saw, and I ran, and I won
       B           (F#)      G#
And I came, and I saw, and I ran, and I won
       C#m         (F#)      G#                    G#
And I came, and I saw, and I ran, and I won.......(buildup to a pause)


(CHORUS:)
         B                    F#                    G#
There is another west, you'll find out, it's nearly thunderous
         B                   F#                  G#
There is another west, much wilder, you feel it under us
       B                F#               C#
And yet another west: a new one when you arriiiiive...
       B                F#               C#
And yet another west: a new one when you arriiiiive...


(OUTRO:)
G#                                            G#m
Taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs
       B           Bbm        G#
(And I came, and I saw, and I ran, and no more/
                              taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs,
G#m                                            G#
Taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs
       B           Bbm        G#
(And I came, and I saw, and I ran, and no more/
                              taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs,
G#                                            G#m
Taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs, taking the backstairs
B          Bbm            G#
(I knew my way around the backstairs)

(....fade out)

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