Not Us chords by Laura Stevenson

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Beginner 👶

Intro:

C G/B Am G/B Fmaj7 G
C G/B Am G/B Fmaj7 G

Verse 1:
C     G/B          Am            G/B             Fmaj7
Ask me what in the world it is I know and I’ll be wordless,
Fmaj7               G
Except I loved you madly.
C      G/B    Am              G/B          Fmaj7
But we let contempt become an apple in the hand,
Fmaj7            G
And poisoned it badly.

Chorus:
Fmaj7         G
It seemed so impossible,
C G/B Am G/B Fmaj7       G
No
not us, everybody else.

C G/B Am G/B Fmaj7 G
C G/B Am G/B Fmaj7 G

Verse 2:
C     G/B       Am       G/B         Fmaj7                    G
Face east, each day we face, another hard night, and another sun rise.
C     G/B       Am                 G/B              Fmaj7
These days that break the way they break who knew we’d be the ones,
Fmaj7           G
Who’d be waking into them?

Chorus:
Fmaj7           G
It still feels impossible,
C G/B Am G/B Fmaj7       G
No
not us, everybody else.
C G/B Am G/B Fmaj7
Impossible
G
Not us.

Fmaj7                            C               G/B
Greedy birds are first watch the herds disperse, oh
Fmaj7                              Am
With eager eyes stand by and watch ruins get ruined,
    Fmaj7
The roofs with no walls to hold them,
Am
Rooms with nobody in them,
Fmaj7                      G
Two idiots who’d been too careless with each other.

C G/B Am G/B Fmaj7       G
No
not us, everybody else.
C G/B Am G/B Fmaj7
Impossible
G
Not us.
C G/B Am G/B Fmaj7 G
No,
C G/B Am G/B Fmaj7
No,
G
Not us.