Chords with lyrics
♫ Intro:
D MajorD
♫ Verse :
D MajorD
Starting up
Your Chevrolet to packed crowds
Back in the heyday
D MajorD
Backfires, like the bravado
You did your best to downplay
D MajorD G+G
Your mistakes are sitting centre stage
E minorEm A augmentedA
Just like you made them
D MajorD
The American way
G+G
All of your mistakes
E minorEm
Are sitting centre stage
A augmentedA
Just like you made them
♫ Refrain:
G+G A augmentedA
With only the seasons keeping time
D MajorD G+G
Who do you wanna be there by your side?
E minorEm A augmentedA
Burning up beacon, casting light
D MajorD E minorEm
Over the empty seats night after night
G+G
Solo, a dying star
Wants to dance over again
A augmentedA B7B7
Perfected steps were so big back then
♫ Chorus:
E minorEm A augmentedA
(Ain't nobody singing along)
Ain't nobody singing along
E minorEm A augmentedA
(Ain't no one remember that song)
No one remembers that song
E minorEm A augmentedA
Holding on to diminishing dawn
♫ Verse :
D MajorD
Laying down
All you do is clown around
In bed with your lady
D MajorD
Pair of die, roll 'em on a rent a night
Throw it all on layaway
D MajorD G+G
Your mistakes are sitting centre stage
E minorEm A augmentedA
Just like you made them
D MajorD
The American way
G+G E minorEm
All of your mistakes are sitting centre stage
A augmentedA
Just like you made them
♫ Refrain:
G+G A augmentedA
With only the seasons keeping time
D MajorD G+G
Who do you wanna be there by your side?
E minorEm A augmentedA
Burning up beacon, casting light
D MajorD E minorEm
Over the empty seats night after night
G+G
Solo, a dying star wants to dance over again
A augmentedA B7B7
Perfected steps were so big back then
♫ Chorus:
E minorEm A augmentedA
(Ain't nobody singing along)
Ain't nobody singing along
E minorEm A augmentedA
(Ain't no one remember that song)
No one remembers that song
E minorEm A augmentedA
Holding on to diminishing dawn
♫ Instrumental:
E minorEm A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA B7B7
G+G A augmentedA G+G A augmentedA
♫ Post-Chorus:
G+G A augmentedA
Solo, a dying star
G+G
Solo, a dying star wants to dance over again
A augmentedA B7B7
Perfected steps were so big back then
♫ Chorus:
E minorEm A augmentedA
(Ain't nobody singing along)
No one remembers that song
E minorEm A augmentedA
(Ain't no one remember that song)
E minorEm A augmentedA
Barely holding on (holding on) to diminishing dawn
♫ Interlude:
D MajorD
♫ Bridge:
D MajorD
Rollercoaster, coming down
E minorEm
Wonderland is hitting the ground
D MajorD
Letter Z, pocket size
E minorEm
You're winning but you don't realise
G+G A augmentedA
You arrive at the fight
E minorEm
Want a piece of me?
D MajorD
Come get your slice of life
There she is, paradise
E minorEm
You could stay a while but it wouldn't suffice
D MajorD
Yeah you know, she's real nice
m
By now you've been there too many times
G+G A augmentedA
You arrive at the fight
E minorEm
Want a piece of me?
A augmentedA
In spite of yourself
G+G A augmentedA
Feel the pressure, but why?
E minorEm
Wanna be something?
A augmentedA G+G E/G#
Come get your slice of life
♫ Pre-Chorus:
G+G A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA
The more you want, the more you miss, the more you wish that you had it
G+G A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA
But when it all falls down around you, will you see how it happened?
♫ Chorus:
G+G A augmentedA
You arrive at the fight
(The more you want, the more you miss, the more you wish that you had it)
E minorEm A augmentedA
In spite of yourself
G+G A augmentedA
Feel the pressure, but why?
(But when it all falls down around you, will you see how it happened)
E minorEm A augmentedA
Come get your slice of life
♫ Chorus:
G+G A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA
(The more you want, the more you miss, the more you wish that you had it)
In spite of yourself
Feel the pressure, but why?
G+G A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA
(But when it all falls down around you, will you see how it happened)
Barely holding on
♫ Chorus:
G+G A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA
(The more you want, the more you miss, the more you wish that you had it)
In spite of yourself
Feel the pressure, but why?
G+G A augmentedA E minorEm A augmentedA
(But when it all falls down around you, will you see how it happened)
G+G A augmentedA E minorEm
(The more you want, the more you miss, the more you wish that you had it)