Chords with lyrics
🎸 Intro:
E MajorE
🎸 Verse 1:
C# minorC#m
You love the city
C# minorC#m
When you're knee-deep in confetti
E MajorE
One big hazy birthday party
F#F# A augmentedA
On a Sunday
C# minorC#m E MajorE
I loved you plenty
C# minorC#m
Like I tried to love the city
C#C#
But my favorite's still the glittering
F#F# Amaj7Amaj7
From far away
A augmentedA C# minorC#m
Okay, okay, okay
E minorEm C# minorC#m
🎸 Verse 2:
Bm7Bm7
I fled the county
C#m7C#m7
Headed deep in the Mojave
C#m7C#m7
Where the sky is wide and hungry
F# minorF#m A augmentedA
When the sun's high
C#m7C#m7 BB
I felt the desert dream
C#m7C#m7
Of where an ocean used to be
C#m7C#m7
I'm drowning in a memory
F# minorF#m A augmentedA
Of high tide
Amaj7Amaj7 E MajorE
Alright, alright, alright
🎸 Verse 3:
E MajorE
California aches
E MajorE
In her tectonic plates
C#C#
She waits to make a break into the sea
E MajorE
Crying for a quake
E MajorE
Mourning empty lakes
C# minorC#m
Crying without water isn't easy
A augmentedA C# minorC#m A augmentedA C# minorC#m BB C# minorC#m
Aah Ooh Aah Ooh Aah Ooo-ooh
F#F# A augmentedA
🎸 Verse 4:
C# minorC#m
I love the city
BB C# minorC#m C#m7C#m7
Like a homemade house of holies
F# minorF#m A augmentedA
Like the sidewalk shrine you only ever pass by
C# minorC#m BB
And if some summer's eve
C#m7C#m7
The tremors bring us to our knees
F# minorF#m A augmentedA
You'll say you saw it coming in our fault lines
E MajorE
Alright, alright, alright
E MajorE
California coughs
E MajorE
The high is wearing off
C# minorC#m
She's trying to get by without the rain
E MajorE
And when I'm borne aloft
E MajorE
To somewhere green and soft
C#C#
I'll watch the wildfires from an airplane
A augmentedA C#C# A augmentedA C# minorC#m
Ah ooooh ah oooh
BB A augmentedA
I love you like a hillside up in flames