Chords with lyrics
Key: C majorC
🎸 Intro:
C majorC G+G A minorAm FF
C majorC G+G A minorAm FF
🎸 Verse 1:
C majorC G+G
I walked through the door with you, the air was cold
A minorAm FF
But somethin' 'bout it felt like home somehow
C majorC G+G
And I left my scarf there at your sister's house
A minorAm FF
And you've still got it in your drawer, even now
🎸 Interlude:
C majorC G+G A minorAm FF
🎸 Verse 2:
C majorC G+G
Oh, your sweet disposition and my wide-eyed gaze
A minorAm FF
We're singing in the car, getting lost upstate
C majorC G+G
Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place
A minorAm FF
And I can picture it after all these days
🎸 Pre-Chorus:
C majorC
And I know it's long gone and
G+G
That magic's not here no more
A minorAm G+G
And I might be okay, but I'm not fine at all
FF G+G F/CF/C G+G
Oh, oh, oh
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC G+G
'Causе there we arе again on that little town street
A minorAm FF
You almost ran the red 'cause you were lookin' over at me
C majorC
Wind in my hair
I was there
G+G A minorAm FF
I remember it all too well
🎸 Verse 3:
C majorC G+G
Photo album on the counter, your cheeks were turning red
A minorAm FF
You used to be a little kid with glasses in a twin-sized bed
C majorC G+G
And your mother's telling stories 'bout you on the tee-ball team
A minorAm FF
You taught me 'bout your past, thinking your future was me
C majorC
And you were tossing me the car keys
G+G A minorAm
"Fuck the patriarchy" keychain on the ground
FF
We were always skipping town
C majorC
And I was thinking on the drive down
G+G A minorAm
Any time now, he's gonna say it's love
FF
You never called it what it was
C majorC
'Til we were dead and gone and buried
G+G
Check the pulse and come back
A minorAm
Swearing it's the same
FF
After three months in the grave
C majorC
And then you wondered where it went to
G+G
As I reached for you
A minorAm
But all I felt was shame
FF
And you held my lifeless frame
🎸 Pre-Chorus:
C majorC
And I know it's long gone and
G+G
There was nothing else I could do
A minorAm
And I forget about you long enough
G+G FF G+G C majorC G+G
To forget why I needed to
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC G+G
'Cause here we are again in the middle of the night
A minorAm FF
We're dancing 'round the kitchen in the refrigerator light
C majorC
Down the stairs
I was there
G+G A minorAm FF
I remember it all too well
C majorC
And there we are again
G+G
When nobody had to know
A minorAm
You kept me like a secret
FF
But I kept you like an oath
C majorC
Sacred prayer and we'd swear
G+G A minorAm FF
To remember it all too well, yeah
🎸 Instrumental:
C majorC G+G A minorAm FF G+G G+G
🎸 Bridge:
C majorC
Well maybe we got lost in translation
G+G
Maybe I asked for too much
A minorAm
But maybe this thing was a masterpiece
FF
'Til you tore it all up
C majorC
Running scared
I was there
G+G A minorAm FF
I remember it all too well
C majorC
And you call me up again
G+G
Just to break me like a promise
A minorAm FF
So casually cruel in the name of being honest
C majorC G+G
I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here
A minorAm FF
'Cause I remember it all, all, all
🎸 Verse 4:
C majorC
They say "All's well that ends well"
G+G A minorAm
But I'm in a new hell every time
FF
You double-cross my mind
C majorC G+G
You said if we had been closer in age
A minorAm
Maybe it would have been fine
FF
And that made me want to die
C majorC
The idea you had of me, who was she?
G+G A minorAm
A augmentedA never-needy, ever lovely jewel
FF
Whose shine reflects on you
C majorC
Not weeping in a party bathroom
G+G
Some actress asking me what happened
A minorAm
You
FF
That's what happened: you
C majorC G+G
You, who charmed my dad with self-effacing jokes
A minorAm FF
Sipping coffee like you were on a late night show
C majorC
But then he watched me watch the front door
G+G
all night, willing you to come
A minorAm
And he said, "it's supposed to be fun…
FF
Turning 21"
🎸 Interlude:
C majorC G+G A minorAm FF
🎸 Verse 5:
C majorC G+G
Time won't fly, it's like I'm paralyzed by it
A minorAm FF
I'd like to be my old self again, but I'm still trying to find it
C majorC G+G
After plaid shirt days and nights when you made me your own
A minorAm FF
Now you mail back my things and I walk home alone
C majorC G+G
But you keep my old scarf from that very first week
A minorAm FF
'Cause it reminds you of innocence and it smells like me
C majorC
You can't get rid of it
G+G A minorAm FF
'Cause you remember it all too well, yeah
🎸 Chorus:
C majorC G+G
'Cause there we are again when I loved you so
A minorAm FF
Back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known
C majorC
It was rare
I was there
G+G A minorAm FF
I remember it all too well
🎸 Post-Chorus:
C majorC
Wind in my hair, you were there
G+G
You remember it all
A minorAm
Down the stairs, you were there
FF
You remember it all
C majorC
It was rare
I was there
G+G A minorAm FF
I remember it all too well
🎸 Verse 6:
C majorC
And I was never good at telling jokes
A minorAm
But the punchline goes:
FF G+G
"I'll get older, but your lovers stay my age"
C majorC A minorAm
From when your Brooklyn broke my skin and bones
FF G+G
I'm a soldier who's returning half her weight
C majorC A minorAm
And did the twin flame bruise paint you blue?
FF G+G
Just between us, did the love affair maim you too?
FF FF
Cause in this city's barren cold
G+G G+G
I still remember the first fall of snow
FF
And how it glistened as it fell
FF C majorC A minorAm
I remember it all too well
FF G+G
Just between us did the love affair maim you
C majorC A minorAm
All too well
FF G+G
Just between us, do you remember it
C majorC A minorAm
All too well
FF G+G C majorC
Just between us
I remember it all too well
🎸 Outro:
(C majorC) A minorAm
Wind in my hair
I was there
I was there
FF G+G
Down the stairs
I was there
I was there
C majorC A minorAm
Sacred prayer
I was there
I was there
FF G+G
It was rare, you remember it (all too well)
C majorC A minorAm
Wind in my hair
I was there
I was there
FF G+G
Down the stairs
I was there
I was there
C majorC A minorAm
Sacred prayer
I was there
I was there
FF G+G
It was rare, you remember it
C majorC A minorAm
Wind in my hair
I was there
I was there
FF G+G
Down the stairs
I was there
I was there
C majorC A minorAm
Sacred prayer
I was there
I was there
FF G+G
It was rare, you remember it
C majorC A minorAm
Wind in my hair
I was there
I was there
FF G+G
Down the stairs
I was there
I was there
C majorC A minorAm
Sacred prayer
I was there
I was there
FF G+G
It was rare, you remember it
C majorC A minorAm
(fade out)