Wwasn't I Paying Attention chords by Amanda Shires

Chords with lyrics

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

Verse 1:
DmDm Bb majorBb DmDm Bb majorBb DmDm
               Bb majorBb
I just had the strangest day of my life
DmDm                Bb majorBb
Worse than the last week with my first wife
     G minorGm
I let John borrow my truck
      FF
He said he needed to get some stuff
      G minorGm
To pay some bills

Verse 2:
DmDm           Bb majorBb        DmDm
Nome ain't a city, it's barely a town
                     Bb majorBb
For a place so pretty, it could bring you way down
          G minorGm
He kept his huntin' knife titanium-clipped
      FF
To a nylon belt set high on his hip
     G minorGm    A augmentedA
For self-defense


Chorus:
     DmDm C majorC Bb majorBb
It was a regular mornin'
  DmDm C majorC    Bb majorBb
No red flags or warnings
  G minorGm
No, nothin' suspicious
    A augmentedA
Wasn't I payin' attention?


Verse 3:
DmDm                   Bb majorBb       DmDm
 I didn't see the full gas can he'd set in the seat
             Bb majorBb
I just nodded and tossed him the keys
     G minorGm
Did I see shakin' in his hands?
    FF
Was he makin' darker plans
G minorGm
Than usual?

Verse 4:
DmDm              Bb majorBb
John had been clean for over a year now
DmDm              Bb majorBb
We all thought he was in the clear now
       G minorGm
But it wasn't God talkin' to him that day
        FF
It was a beast that never goes away
         G minorGm      A augmentedA
It sleeps in your brain


Chorus:
    DmDm  C majorC Bb majorBb
It was a regular mornin'
   DmDm    C majorC Bb majorBb
No red flags or warnings
  G minorGm
No, nothin' suspicious
     A augmentedA
Wasn't I payin' attention?

DmDm  Bb majorBb DmDm Bb majorBb

Verse 5:
DmDm            Bb majorBb
Every Sunday was another doomsday
DmDm              Bb majorBb
He'd say "Last Judgement's not far away"
        G minorGm
He talked about evil in his blood
      FF
He spoke of fire, he spoke of floods
       G minorGm
That's how he was


Chorus:
    DmDm  C majorC  Bb majorBb
It was a regular mornin'
   DmDm    C majorC Bb majorBb
No red flags or warnings
  G minorGm
No, nothin' suspicious
    A augmentedA
Wasn't I payin' attention?
     DmDm  C majorC  Bb majorBb
It was a regular mornin'
  DmDm    C majorC   Bb majorBb
No red flags or warnings
   G minorGm
No, nothin' suspicious
     A augmentedA           DmDm
Wasn't I payin' attention?

Verse 6:
             Bb majorBb
John drove my truck down to the square
DmDm                Bb majorBb
 He thought he would end it all right there
        G minorGm
He took off his coat, doused himself in gas
       FF
Slit his own throat, climbed back into the cab
      G minorGm    A augmentedA
And lit the match