Running Joke - Paper Machete chords by Queens Of The Stone Age

• Difficulty: Intermediate 💪

Verse 1:
N.C.
When I was a little boy, I looked under the stairs
N.C.
The king and the pawns were caught unawares
                B7          Em          B7
Standing in the shadows, a whisperer to be
Em                    B7       Em           B7
Just fishing in the darkness of possibilities

Chorus:
                 Em   D
Just look at you now
G   B              Em  D
Yeah, look at you now
G    B                Em  B7
Ooh, oh, look at you now

Em B7 x4

Verse 2:
Em            B7               Em              B7
   Among such style and grace
our highest hopes
Em                B7                Em     B7
   None standing still, the running joke
Em                B7               Em             B7
   Where goes the warm embrace, it fades without return
     Em                   B7            Em     B7
It lives to slip through fingertips and burn

Verse 1:
C     Em         C        Em    C
   I don't care what you think anymore
         Em      D
Doesn't matter anyway
C       Em    C       Em      C
Joan of Arc, victim, perpetrator
Em            D        Em
Just a papеr machete, yeah

G   D   Em x2

Verse 2:
      G       D      Em          G    D    Em
Thе truth is just a piece of clay
       G          D          Em                G    D    C
You sculpt, you change, you hide, then you erase
     Em           C               Em       C
You think you're brave? All the plans you made
           Em           D
Behind my back and from far away
 C         Em      C               Em
Truth is, face to face, you're a coward
 C          Em        D    Em
Sharp as a paper machete, yeah
B  Em B

Verse 3:
C      D          Em            C
Now I know you'd use anything, anyone
    D        Em
To make yourself look clean
    C        D         Em
In sickness, no vows mean anything
    C     D
So long, cruelty
    C         D
So long, too late
    C        D   D#  D
So long, my love is dead

Chorus:
                    Em  D  G
But just look at you now, yeah
B              Em  D  G
Oh, look at you now, yeah
B              Em  D  G
Oh, look at you now, yeah
B              Em  D  G
Oh, look at you now, yeah
B              Em  D  G
   Look at you now
B              Em  D  G
Oh, look at you now, yeah
G    B           Em  B7 Em
     Look at you now